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Cairo
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Jonathan Mariante
Cairo are a trio
consisting of singer Bret Douglas, keyboardist Mark
Robertson, and drummer Jeff Brockman. They have also enlisted the help
of guitarists Brian Hutchison and
Luis Maldonado, and bassist John Evans. Their music is very mellow
soft rock. It reminded me of the Moody Blues, and has some jazz and new
age influences. Although this style of music is not my cup of tea, they
are quite talented, and are good at what they do. Robertson is a very
good keyboard player, and is quite a dominant force in the band, his
playing taking a front seat throughout the album, especially in the
closing track, the instrumental "The Fuse", in which he goes
hog
wild on his keyboards, showing the world what he can do with a Moog!
There are two other instrumentals on the album, "Cosmic
Approach", which
is very appropriately titled, as it is very spacey and new
age-y, Brockman taking over the keys and effects for this one, and
the very pleasant "Scottish Highland". The other songs feature
Bret's
singing, which he's quite good at, and some George Benson-style guitar
playing, as well as some other jazz influences in the drumming and bass
playing. This is music to listen to if you want to mellow out. It is
quite lilting and relaxing. The only real complaint I have is some of
the songs are a bit long. The first song, "Underground", is
over eight
minutes, followed by "The Prophecy", which is over ten
minutes, and the
aforementioned "The Fuse" is nine minutes long. As I said,
this isn't
really my kind of music but these fellas are talented and good at
playing in this style.
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