Every Night, Doin' You Right.
Ocotillo - Let Me Love You
It has been a long time since I’ve posted. It’s not been due to laziness, or being too busy. Those things just aren’t my way. If I’m not writing it’s because I haven’t heard anything worth writing about. I know these posts don’t seem like much, but they don’t come from nowhere. They come from listening to interesting things.
But yesterday morning when a friend sent me this, and I listened to it all day, I knew that it was time to blow the dust off my keyboard and let you all in on this secret. It’s not important who this guy is, and he’d likely kill me for posting this, but it’s too good to keep it to myself.
The way the vocal rides the beat is so natural. You know that this isn’t a joke or a trifle. It’s a work of passion, whether the singer knows it or not. He knows the changes, the way each syllable sits inside each little keyboard slide. And it’s all so simple: the looped opening intro from Paul Simon’s Obvious Child with single keyboard notes guiding the way. It drives and drives and drives, never letting up, unable to wait for an answer to the song’s main plea.
We need more of this.
In case you aren’t familiar with his works, this is a Mario cover. Remember him? He was popular back in 2005 or so. But forget about him because this is the definitive version.
With any luck I’ll post more from this guy soon. He’s slowly slowly slowly working on an album but believe me when I say it’ll be worth the wait.