New Dawn

Stranded is back with new album New Dawn this time with the brainchild, Producer and multi instrumentalists Lewis Nitikman, a talented musician from Winnipeg in Canada. Lewis moved to Vancouver when he was 14 and eventually started to produce numerous albums in Canada and was a staff writer for a number of major publishing companies.

Lewis was actually in the band "Stonebolt" and replaced John Webster on keyboards in 1981, he featured on their 4th album "Juvenile American Princess". Speaking of Stonebolt the "New Dawn" recording features none other than Ray Roper on guitars and backing vocals. If that isn't enough the singer is Troy Reid, a man with a well- known set of pipes that graced albums by Canadian favourites "Agent" and, later, "Stranded" first album "Long Way To Heaven".

The tracks on "New Dawn" were actually penned some years ago by Lewis along with many co-writers which he met along the way. One of these is the talented John Reilly (Boy on a dolphin) as well as Daryl Burgess and Corey Abrahms. The end tweaks and the mixing was carried out by Bill Buckingham and it must be said that he has done a great job.

New Dawn contains 11 tracks of West Coast / AOR that suits the voice of Troy Reid admirably and they are fine pieces of music that are so easy to listen to. These are all ideal for radio airplay, the opener "Not enough sorry" is testament to this as it is a wonderful tune with a fantastic keyboard sound and, of course, Troy's unmistakable vocals.