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Fernando Perdomo is everywhere (including the virtual pages of this music magazine). Equally comfortable in (and skilled at) progressive rock and powerpop, he\u2019s a utility man to the stars since his relocation to Los Angeles. He\u2019s a multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter. I hesitate to call Open Sound his latest<\/i> project, because it\u2019s highly likely that he\u2019s done two or three others since this one.<\/p>\n
But Open Sound is a collaboration between him and Justin Paul Sanders. The two handle nearly every bit of writing, singing and playing on this uptempo pop album. Not really powerpop, it\u2019s better described as straight-ahead, vocal-forward melodic rock. The songs are generally build around a memorable chorus, and timeless elements like hand claps figure prominently in the songs.<\/p>\n
Open Sound does a fine job of evoking the CSN vibe on “Thinking of You.” Here’s a guess: Perdomo is a keen listener who absorbs from that to which he is exposed, so his work (in the service of others) on the Echo in the Canyon<\/em> project finds a more personal kind of creative expression here.<\/p>\n The tunes don\u2019t swing for the fences; for the most part they\u2019re breezy, catchy and well-executed songs that don\u2019t aspire to be more than they are. At its core, the sound of Open Sound<\/i> is one of two musicians — both clearly very good at what they do — having an enjoyable time in the studio, putting together crystalline songs that evoke pleasant memories of \u201870s hit radio.<\/p>\n Standout track: \u201cShe\u2019s On Her Way,\u201d one of the album\u2019s four Perdomo\/Sanders cowrites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fernando Perdomo is everywhere (including the virtual pages of this music magazine). Equally comfortable in (and skilled at) progressive rock and powerpop, he\u2019s a utility man to the stars since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[3239,4248],"class_list":["post-19119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-fernando-perdomo","tag-open-sound","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119","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=19119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19123,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119\/revisions\/19123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}