The Alternate Root - Discover Roots & Americana Music
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • Top 100 Albums 2020
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact

reviews

aloud sprezzatura

6/18/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Aloud (from the album Sprezzatura available on Lemon Merchant Records)
The sound swirls on Sprezzatura, the recent release from Aloud. Organ swells haunt “Twenty-Third Fresh Start” using a Rock backbeat while Aloud offer some advice, the band checking into “Lovers of the Last Resort” with a stomp, Jen de la Osa spitting out a sermon for the heart handing Henry Beguiristain the microphone to surf the sunshine, top-down pop of “Cresting Waves. Sprezzatura is a spinning wheel of style, Soul horns supporting Aloud in the political message of “Hungry Land” as the album calls a spotlight dance for the Doo-Wop seduction in “In Spite of Language”, hammers out a welcome with opening cut “Loving U’s a Beautiful Thing” and heads towards the exit on the revolving rhythms of “Been So Long Since We’ve Seen the Sun”. 
 
Forming in Miami, Florida in their teenage years, the core of Aloud, Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa, found a mutual love of the big rock of Oasis and The Who, a sound separating them from the rest of the working-class Cuban neighborhood where they grew up. The music of Aloud served a dual purpose, allowing the pair to create their own musical imprint and carve out a space for themselves, Jen recalling that ‘from the beginning, music has been a way to express ourselves, and to grapple with the major issues in our lives. Back then, we didn’t always feel like we fit in, but music set us apart. It gave us an identity’. A pounding Rock’n’Soul rhythm spreads out like a smile when Aloud cruise a highway song with “Waiting (Scenes from a Lonely Planet)” and trade in security for convenience in “Renters for Life” as Sprezzatura channels 80’s new wave for “Oh Danny”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Aloud from AMAZON
 
For more information, please visit the Aloud website
 
 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

Picture

    subscribe to our newsletter

Submit

To submit music, please mail a copy of your CD to the following address:
Danny McCloskey
The Alternate Root
1717 East Vista Chino
Ste A7 PMB 302
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Contact Us

    we do not share email addresses

Submit

©2021 The Alternate Root All Rights Reserved
website by Jim Cortez jctez12@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • Top 100 Albums 2020
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact