Ricardo Donoso Progress Trap retail stic Eric Clapton and Steve Cropper

Eric Clapton and Steve Cropper all have cited Five Royales guitarist and songwriter Lowman Pauling as a major influence

and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

And as their namesake suggests

as Maine's characteristically brooding tone and emotively direct vocal and songwriting manner brand the results distinctly his

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Ricardo Donoso Progress Trap retail stic Eric Clapton and Steve CropperTen years after the transcendent syncopated debut Progress Chance, Ricardo Donoso returns with a pulsing retrospect of rhythmic determination and wide eyed wonder with Progress Trap. The moods on these electronic miniatures vary from piece to piece; some somber, brooding, and laden with mystery, others starry eyed, tinged with sci fi, and hungry for adventure. Connections are finally forged between Donosos early hardware synthesizer arpeggiation