Review of Unscathed by RadioIndy.com:
Outstanding Southern Rock/Blues music
Author: Diane and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team
Andy De Rosa & Electric Mojo release their outstanding debut album “Unscathed” steeped with distinctive treasures of Southern Rock/Blues. This group exhibits a strong and tight consistency within this style of music. Lead vocals are crisp and clean and offer up solid and tough attitude. The rock solid guitar riffs on “Living On the Road” complement the lead vocals as well as the great harmonies. An intense, razor sharp guitar riff hooks the listener on “Like A Storm” with its sweet and emotive precision. The title track, “Unscathed” is well balanced with sweet guitar licks, steady flowing drum beats, and memorable vocals. Bouncy beats and guitar hooks captures the southern bluesy vibe on the clever arrangement “Good Times and Bad Times.” The well rounded and energetic music of “Unscathed” is sure to please all listeners of Southern Rock/Blues music.
Andy De Rosa - vocals/guitars/harp/songwriter
TO BE ANNOUNCED - bass guitar
Stef Fiorentini - new drummer!
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LIKE A STORM - THE VIDEO:
Andy De Rosa - Watching The Hands Of Time
(review by Jase Randell)
Andy De Rosa... the name may not mean anything to some people but very soon he (and his band, Electric Mojo) will be on everyone's lips.
This is Andy's solo album, stripped down southern blues with the "Andy De Rosa" touch, it kicks off with "Not Ready To Change", a great album starter and fantastic intro to the talents of Andy, this takes me back to a dreamy scape and great grass roots with the adage of harmonica thrown in to accompany the acoustic guitar!
Track 2, "The Lude Trip" has hints of The Faces and The Stones, and more up-tempo than the first track.
"Living On The Road" is next along and really just says it all, a great up-tempo song and great harmonica playing from the main man, Andy seems to be really enjoying himself on this song, you can almost sense him laughing along as he wrote this song.
Track 4, "A Cry For Peace" to me starts of very Bowie-esque but turns into a song all of its own, this is my stand-out track so far....more diverse than previous tracks and it feels like Andy is stepping up a gear...fantastic!
Just when you think it doesn't get any better "Lonely Time" is just a beautiful song, great lyrics, Andy's take of love and loss is amazingly accurate and will speak to many folks out there who are going through similar experiences.
Track 6 is a song called "Forgotten"....very much in the vain of Dylan, both in terms of lyrics and music, staggering....listen to the great harmonica playing, it doesn't get better than this.
"The World Through A Glass" is really the hardest song for me to review, simply cause of it being epic in nature! Really beautiful lyrics.
Just as you get your breath back from that song along comes "Love Beyond Fall"...which starts off pretty slowly but then mid-way through comes into a song all of its own! Another faultless southern blues song.
Onto the last song, well...give or take an instrumental is another great song from Andy...."Wishing" is a great choice in album song closers, really mellow in nature, a great love song, it leaves you with the urge to want more from this great artist.
Album closer is called "Interlude" a nice instrumental with great slide guitar and nice lead work thrown in for good measure.
Overall a great debut solo album and a nice taster for what's to come from Andy and his band, Electric Mojo....a full on electric album, which sees the light of day in 2009.
Highly recommended.
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Influences
Andy De Rosa's solo material, The Black Crowes, The Faces, Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Paul Rodgers & Free, Humble Pie, The Band, Derek Trucks Band, Gov't Mule, Ben Harper, John Mayer, Marc Ford, Rich Robnson, Chris Robinson & New Earth Mud, The Isley Brothers, Allman Brothers, Lowell George, etc...
Sounds Like
Andy De Rosa's solo material, The Black Crowes, The Faces, The Rolling Stones, Marc Ford, Ben Harper, John Mayer, The Isley Brothers, Allman Brothers, funkadelic rock..etc.
e vai, Andy!! grandissimo!! in bocca al lupo, spero che diventi famoso come Mick Jagger cosi' posso di' che ho un amico fucking successful!! un abbraccio, Carlo
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