Alex Arestegui: Proem
Here is the first of one of the many reviews I did for another website. More shall appear...
Alex Arestegui
Proem
Novel Records
Rating: 68 out of 100
It’s not surprising that studio musicians are struggling for work with musicians like Alex Arestegui in the music community. If an artist is looking to make an album and likes the idea of an electronic sound, hiring an entire band and paying out a bunch of money doesn’t make sense when someone like Arestegui can do it all. He has been working with the program 'Fruit Loops' for the past five years and now at age seventeen has released Proem.
The release is a collection of eight electronic pieces all performed, produced, and engineered by Arestegui, basically an electronic version of Lenny Kravitz. Most of the tracks are so beat-driven that listeners will want to get out of their chairs and dance, dance, dance, since this is an electronic dance album. “Of Love”, an atmospheric accension of a dance song, starts off the album pounding the listener into submission. Then the track temporarily gives a false sense of peace with lush synthesizers before pounding away again with the beat mixed from an intricate arrangement of sounds. “Endless Bay” is not too dissimilar to the first track, except sounds of some animal creep into the mix. “Dusk” starts off as the backdrop for a R. Kelly song which never happened, but turns into a steady percussive loop of beats and melodic arpeggios. “Tsunami” has the most interesting texture with its beat being composed from what sounds like the breaking of sticks. Varying ascending and descending keyboard lines make things even more interesting. The album ends with a track which sounds like the prologue to a Journey song before it turns into an ambient Asian piece, dwelling on the roots and fifths of chords.
The downfall of Proem is that most of the songs follow the same pattern. They start off with a short intro before kicking off with the beat which will define the song. After the song settles into its groove for a few minutes, the slow paced middle section takes over to cool things off a bit. Next, a short intro begins as the beat which defined the song takes over again at full throttle. Mixing the song writing formula would have helped things, along with not pounding the beat so hard that it actually threatens to tear the eardrum.
Ryan T. White http://www.thelaterrye.blogspot.com/
For more information: http://www.novelrecords.com/
Alex Arestegui
Proem
Novel Records
Rating: 68 out of 100
It’s not surprising that studio musicians are struggling for work with musicians like Alex Arestegui in the music community. If an artist is looking to make an album and likes the idea of an electronic sound, hiring an entire band and paying out a bunch of money doesn’t make sense when someone like Arestegui can do it all. He has been working with the program 'Fruit Loops' for the past five years and now at age seventeen has released Proem.
The release is a collection of eight electronic pieces all performed, produced, and engineered by Arestegui, basically an electronic version of Lenny Kravitz. Most of the tracks are so beat-driven that listeners will want to get out of their chairs and dance, dance, dance, since this is an electronic dance album. “Of Love”, an atmospheric accension of a dance song, starts off the album pounding the listener into submission. Then the track temporarily gives a false sense of peace with lush synthesizers before pounding away again with the beat mixed from an intricate arrangement of sounds. “Endless Bay” is not too dissimilar to the first track, except sounds of some animal creep into the mix. “Dusk” starts off as the backdrop for a R. Kelly song which never happened, but turns into a steady percussive loop of beats and melodic arpeggios. “Tsunami” has the most interesting texture with its beat being composed from what sounds like the breaking of sticks. Varying ascending and descending keyboard lines make things even more interesting. The album ends with a track which sounds like the prologue to a Journey song before it turns into an ambient Asian piece, dwelling on the roots and fifths of chords.
The downfall of Proem is that most of the songs follow the same pattern. They start off with a short intro before kicking off with the beat which will define the song. After the song settles into its groove for a few minutes, the slow paced middle section takes over to cool things off a bit. Next, a short intro begins as the beat which defined the song takes over again at full throttle. Mixing the song writing formula would have helped things, along with not pounding the beat so hard that it actually threatens to tear the eardrum.
Ryan T. White http://www.thelaterrye.blogspot.com/
For more information: http://www.novelrecords.com/
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