Eduardo Slompo has a
Youtube channel and is based in Sidney.
Offerings on the channel
include live recording sessions, a cappella mash-ups, and one man band performances
recorded separately and combined. With well over one hundred videos, he shows a
fairly impressive ability with multiple instruments and styles. There is talent
and skill.
At the same time,
reviewing them all together gets a bit boring. I believe the preferred model
would be to subscribe and then watch new videos as they go up.
I thought that the
mash-ups might be a way of breaking out of the routine, creating interesting
arrangements of songs you might not expect to go together. Instead, they tend
to shove many opening lines into a small time frame. That was most obvious with
the Beatles, but most disappointing on the Queen mash-up.
It could have made so
much sense to instead do a one-man band version of "Bohemian
Rhapsody", or maybe a focused mash-up of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
with one or two others of their more dramatic songs: "I Want to Break
Free"? There are so many ways you could go there.
I have previously
criticized other bands for relying too much on covers without creating their
own music. In a case like this, covers can make sense, but there should still
be a place for personal creative vision, and the lack of that is felt here.
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