Dave Douglas has many faces. He can turn his cheek to Balkan, Indian, or free jazz. He is as much at home in the Knitting Factory as in a chamber orchestra.This time around he chose the pioneering female pianist Mary Lou Williams, covering four of her compositions and using others as inspiration for his own writing.

Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays (2009)
APE(Image) + Cue + Log + Scans| EAC Rip | ~560 MB | 5% Recovery
Genre: Progressive Power Metal | Label: Icarus Music | ISBN 7 2736123792 9 | 01:04:47 | 13 Tracks

"The Days Of Grays" is the sixth full-length studio album by Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica and was released in Finland on the 16th of September 2009. The album also features vocals by Johanna Kurkela and cello arrangements by Perttu Kivilaakso (Apocalyptica). Henrik Klingenberg described the album as "a bit darker and maybe not so complex as 'Unia'. Nevertheless, it's definitely not a back-to-the-roots album with fast power metal. All the trademark Sonata stuff is on there, solos, lots of singing, some slower songs."
The album opens with an instrumental of "Everything Fades to Gray", atmospheric with beautiful keyboard melodies, which flows into "Deathaura", the longest song of the album. This song consists of ten parts out of which the first part is almost entirely sung by Johanna Kurkela, and is very complex, haunting, epic and bombastic…..