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Rating: 9.5 / 10 Stars
SERAINA TELLI is: Seraina Telli – Vocals, Guitars, Pianos, Mike Malloth – Drums, Rico Horber – Additional Instruments, Marc Maurer – Additional Instruments
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REVIEW – For SERAINA TELLI, the stage is not simply where the songs are reproduced after they have been perfected in a studio. It is where they become something different. GREEN Live captures that philosophy across 17 tracks of raw energy, emotion, spontaneity, and musicianship, documenting an artist who sounds completely at home when there is no safety net between the performance and the audience.
Following three successful studio albums — Simple Talk, Addicted to Color, and GREEN — SERAINA TELLI uses GREEN Live to demonstrate what those songs become once they leave the studio. There is plenty of power here, but the album’s greatest strength is its range. Heavy guitars and thundering drums can give way to piano, vulnerability, and intimate emotion without disrupting the flow of the performance.
“Intro” immediately establishes the atmosphere with soaring vocals and emotional instrumentation. Rather than feeling like a disposable opening, it eases the listener into the experience and sets the stage for what follows.
“Let It All Out” allows the dreams and emotions to take over. SERAINA TELLI does not rush the song, allowing the melody and vocals to pull the listener deeper into the performance. There is an openness to the arrangement that makes it feel personal even within a live setting.
“Addicted to Color” changes everything. The energy jumps, the guitars hit harder, and suddenly this becomes fist-pumping, headbanging rock built for a crowd to chant along with. It is exactly the kind of track that demonstrates why these songs deserve a live release.
“I’m Not Sorry” keeps that momentum alive with a foot-stomping rock and roll attitude. There is confidence behind the performance, and the chorus feels designed for an audience to throw back at the stage.
“17” changes the emotional direction again. The song has the ability to let memories slowly work their way to the surface, creating one of those moments where the room can feel much smaller than it actually is.
“Home” carries an almost dreamlike quality. This is the type of performance that encourages the listener to drift away with the music rather than analyze every detail. SERAINA TELLI allows the song to breathe, and that restraint makes its emotional impact stronger.
“Brown Eyed Boys” brings the fun back. It is easy to imagine a crowd singing, shouting, and playing imaginary guitar along with every riff. There is nothing overly complicated about why this works — it simply feels good.
“Modern Warrior” is one of the standout performances on the album. The melody is immediately catchy, but there is an emotional charge underneath it that gives the song staying power. It is the kind of track that sticks in your head long after the performance ends while still being capable of sending shivers down your spine.
“I Dare To” continues that infectious quality. The hook feels built for audience participation, and it is easy to imagine an entire room singing along with SERAINA TELLI. That connection between performer and crowd is exactly what GREEN Live is trying to preserve.
“All Your Tears” turns inward again, allowing the listener to become lost in distant memories. The emotional delivery carries more weight in the live environment because there is nowhere for the performance to hide.
“Take Care” keeps the emotions at the forefront. The vocals pull you into the song, and the arrangement supports rather than overwhelms them. This is one of the moments where SERAINA TELLI‘s ability to move between powerful rock vocalist and intimate storyteller becomes especially effective.
“Not One of Your Kind” brings the physical energy roaring back. Chant, fist pump, stomp your foot — this is a live rock song built around participation. It feels immediate and unapologetic.
“Song for the Girls” settles into a groove that invites the audience to sway along and break out the air guitar. There is a looseness to the live arrangement that gives the track personality without sacrificing precision.
“Off” returns to a more emotional space, with the music and vocals working together to draw the listener inward. It reinforces just how comfortable SERAINA TELLI is moving between intensity and vulnerability during the same performance.
“Monkey & Zookeeper” is one of the album’s most muscular moments. Crunchy riffs, screaming guitars, soaring vocals, thundering drums, and a thick low end come together in a performance that feels made to be played loud. The song allows the band to cut loose while SERAINA TELLI delivers a commanding performance over the top.
“Remember You” is beautiful in an entirely different way. The emotion takes priority over power, creating one of the record’s most heartfelt performances. After the heavier moments leading into it, the song provides exactly the kind of contrast a live album this long needs.
“Love” closes the performance and gives the album a fitting emotional conclusion. After moving through confidence, nostalgia, aggression, vulnerability, joy, and reflection, the final track feels like the natural destination of the journey.
What makes GREEN Live special is that it never sounds like SERAINA TELLI is trying to prove how perfectly the studio recordings can be recreated onstage. That would miss the point entirely.
These songs are allowed to change.
They breathe differently. They stretch. They become heavier in places and more intimate in others. The musicians respond to one another, the energy shifts with the room, and moments are allowed to exist because they happened rather than because they were planned months earlier.
Mike Malloth provides a powerful rhythmic foundation throughout the performance, giving the harder songs the impact they need while understanding when restraint serves the music better. Rico Horber and Marc Maurer help expand the arrangements, but the center remains SERAINA TELLI, moving between vocals, guitars, and piano with an ease that reinforces just how much of her identity is tied to live performance.
The result feels less like a conventional live greatest-hits collection and more like a statement about what these songs are supposed to become.
That matters because SERAINA TELLI has built much of her reputation onstage. The studio albums established the songwriting and the hooks, but GREEN Live reveals the other half of the equation: personality, unpredictability, interaction, and the willingness to let emotion take control.
There are imperfections because live music should have them. There are shifts in intensity because every moment does not need to exist at maximum volume. And there are songs here that arguably gain something in this environment that could never be completely recreated inside a studio.
GREEN Live is loud when it needs to be, vulnerable when it matters, and consistently alive.
For SERAINA TELLI, that may be the most important thing of all.
This is not music being reproduced.
It is music happening.
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