Cecilio Rodriguez,
Sweet Surprise
(Cord, 2004)


If I were in a CD shop looking for something to buy and picked up a recording whose song list, I soon learned, featured titles like "I Dreamed You," "Sweet Surprise" and "Found the Love," I would put it back into the racks with as much haste as I could muster. I would feel vaguely embarrassed that I had been foolish enough to be curious about it in the first place.

I didn't have to pay for this disc, but at least it served to reassure me that the old instincts are as sound as ever.

Cecilio Rodriguez is a Hawaiian pop singer whose taste runs to treacly romantic songs, in this instance self-penned ones. If your tastes run in that direction, as opposed to away as fast as they can run, maybe you'll like this. Otherwise, it'll sound like a Hawaiian variant of the annoying soft rock you hear burbling in the background while you're looking over the produce at the supermarket.




Rambles.NET
music review by
Jerome Clark


23 April 2005


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