Michelangelo
Future Perfect
Two Shes Productions
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also available on cd baby
All 11 songs are written by Michelangelo, he plays the keyboard, piano and does all the lead vocals, and is a co-producer along with Tony Woodroffe. This is a disc that owes a great deal to the production work of George Martin when he was working with the Beatles, as well as to the Beatles themselves for the craftsmanship involved on this disc. There is some of the big full sound that is maybe Queen at its best. However the feel with the complexity of the songs, and the layering of the sound brings to mind the Beatles on “The White Album,” more than anything else, and though a great deal is owed to them it isn’t a rip off at all, it is durative, however it doesn’t feel like there is an attempt to copy what they did so long ago. Think too, with this lengthy passage of time, and the success the Beatles had, there were so many imitators and they were all discarded and here is a person (no indication whether the group
playing with him is studio musicians or a more permanent fixture) who risks it all with this disc.
The band he is playing with here is very tight and stays with him very well. A special note of George Farmer on bass his touch is delicate and yet powerful. He never overpowers with the bass line, it really shines without becoming dominate or throbbing, a very delicate line and he holds it well The music is well written and the words have an interesting story to them. It is the production work here that really shines. This is a disc that definitely is worthy of repeated listening.