{"id":18784,"date":"2020-05-16T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:26:30","slug":"album-review-fernando-perdomo-out-to-sea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/album-review-fernando-perdomo-out-to-sea-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Fernando Perdomo &#8211; Out to Sea 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18785\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fernando_perdomo_ots3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fernando_perdomo_ots3.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fernando_perdomo_ots3-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fernando_perdomo_ots3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>To the list of artists who release stunning amounts of material \u2013 Robert Pollard, R. Stevie Moore \u2013 we must now add Fernando Perdomo. The guitarist-producer has been on quite a tear since relocating from southern Florida to Los Angeles some years back. In addition to producing other artists, engaging in tribute and collaboration projects and playing as a live sideman (that\u2019s him onstage with the hat in <i>Echo in the Canyon<\/i>), Fernando has been releasing plenty of his own records.<\/p>\n<p>Subtitled <i>The Storm<\/i>, his latest is the third in a trilogy (well, unless there\u2019s eventually a fourth, fifth, sixth\u2026) called <i>Out to Sea<\/i>. And speaking of hats, the one he wears this go-round is that of a progressive rock instrumentalist. It\u2019s all Fernando all the time (except for one track on which his girlfriend adds some textural color.<\/p>\n<p>The styles in which Perdomo trades have hints of everything from Queen crossed with Todd Rundgren (the title track) to space-rock (\u201cWonder\u201d) to Klaatu (\u201cCycles\u201d) to Yes (\u201cThe Great Known\u201d) to modern progressive rock (\u201cThe Storm\u201d) to early Utopia (\u201cFrenzy\u201d) to&#8230;well, you get the idea. Eleven tracks, all original, all tasty, yet all examples of Fernando Perdomo unashamedly wearing his influences on his sleeve. But because he distills those influences through his own unique musical personality, the entire affair is most worthwhile and memorable.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite track: the bossa-nova-meets-instro-prog <a href=\"https:\/\/fernandoperdomo.bandcamp.com\/track\/tambourines-of-malmo\">&#8220;Tambourines of Malmo.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the list of artists who release stunning amounts of material \u2013 Robert Pollard, R. Stevie Moore \u2013 we must now add Fernando Perdomo. The guitarist-producer has been on quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49,56,65],"tags":[3239],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-new-release","category-prog","category-review","tag-fernando-perdomo","cat-40-id","cat-49-id","cat-56-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18789,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}