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Darrius - CafeCD03

Licensed out of Seattle. Written (mainly) and produced by Darrius Willrich. He of course sings but also does all the keyboard work.

The album is mellow and jazzy and Darrius's vocal has tinges of Stevie Wonder, the opening track 'Blissful' illustrating this to the full, with a nice sax break by Reggie Commodore.

'The waiting is over' is more uptempo with a good beat and some nice keys. 'When she comes for me' allows Darrius to expose the range of his vocal ability.

'Corner Store' is a mellow jazz sax led instrumental. 'My unceasing love' - wow this is Stevie again! - a mellow meaningful ballad. 'The sooner you know', throbbing bass and mellower vocal overdubs on this track, actually written by bassist Marvin Shields.

'Mad Nights' closes with an uptempo more free style jazz workout.

A solid album of this genre containing some good tracks, there is a good feel about it in that he sounds as if this would sound exactly the same out on the road, not manufactured and stylised vocals and good arrangements.