The
Paco Sessions By Don Pappi Chulo
La Jerga was lucky enough
to get its grubby little hands on Paco Rivera’s new demo sessions.
The four untitled tracks we reviewed were a mixture of R&B,
Soul and house music.
1. The first track is slow, smooth, rolling in my jeep, sipping
on gin n’ juice grooves with mi bitch by my side. The guitar
comes in and sweeps yosau away, even when Paco’s charismatic
voice isn’t. This one's got a lot of good old skool feelin’.
It gives me a one-man Earth Wind and Fire kinda vibe. Excellent
for rollin’ in dem hills in a drop top with a girl, or two…
2. The second track is more upbeat, with some very cool effects
and comes up bumpin. Like peaking on a good hit of e. Did I just
say that? What I meant to say is this is where Maxwell meets J.Lo
at the exclusive after-party in the Amazon jungle wearing nothing
but her leopard-skin thong and holding a tub of vaseline in her
hand.
3. Track three is upbeat, 70’s soul with a modern house kick.
This triumph of a disco revival sound is what’s sweeping the
French Riviera as we speak. Right now. Now! Go there! And Ibiza
too. Go have fun with your lady while you listen this track.
4. Strictly, for the ladies. Incense. Wine. And all kinds of fine
rhymes. These are by far Paco’s best lyrics. Well constructed
and handsomely delivered. You get ‘em shaved silky-smooth.
Paco! Paco! Paco! Paco!
Although on the whole the lyrics can at times be slightly repetitive
and the vocabulary a tad limited—you have to remember that
English is not Paco’s first language. YOU try writing lyrics
in another language and not sounding like a complete wuss. While
Paco comes off sounding like a sexy, smooth Latino pimp.
Paco wrote, performed and produced all the tracks himself in his
home studio. Considering this is only a demo, and not the finished
product, Paco should be very proud of what he’s accomplished
here. For being his first solo outing and recording it all in his
bedroom, this kid gets an A+ on home production skilz and an overall
impressive musical presence that cannot be denied. But the underlying
cold hard truth is you can’t just know how to sequence music
on a computer and expect to have a selling product.
Hopefully you’ll be seeing the finished product on the record
shelves a few months from now. So a suggestion to all you heads
that can’t wait that long: get your lazy asses up to Le Petit
bar on a Thursday or Friday or Whateverday, and start hounding the
employees to put this disk in heavy rotation. And make it part of
the permanent listening selection available at that fine establishment.
In the meantime, you can make up your own mind up about this very
pleasurable nocturnal aural emission. |
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