New York has a new rising R&B star and his name is Gaetano. Gaetano is a 24 year old, master of emotions. His first EP is entitled 'Fade Away' and came in the middle of a long summer, which brought with it only one or two R&B bangers that evoked even the slightest bit of passion in the listeners. Yet with his EP, Gaetano certainly resparked my interest in R&B again.
While most R&B singers seem to be afraid of straying from the stereotypical standard of money, luxary and sex, Gaetano displays emotional range on this awe evoking EP.
The voice of this Bronx native will certainly captivate you,Gaetano manages to mix grown man with a boyish falsetto. 'Fade Away' exemplifies grown people music and is a definite choice for some time spent alone with your significant other. A master of expression, Gaetano also hits us with lyrical content of songs like 'Road to Nowhere' where he gives poetic light to the young and hopeless love affair, singing;
'That hole didn't matter in the sunshine, drops are falling faster and it's about time, we left this bed and took that step, towards the road, if we're going to be soaked, we might as well be walking in the open;
On the road to nowhere, time is on our side.
On the road to nowhere, we'll find a compromise.
We'll try and we'll try until at last we realize, we're on a road to nowhere.'
Perfectly pitched and defined, Gaetano will certainly have us on memory lane, where we will go back to highschool or our first love affair which will live forever, thanks to his lovely tribute.
On one of the more susceptible tracks of the EP the falsetto-ist displays his talent with the word and exudes emotion all over the track 'Speak with my Guitar'. In this self written and immaculatly produced track,which happens to be the one of the artists favorites, Gaetano displays a surreal vulnerability compared to the hardened lyrics of the second song, a breakup song appropriately named, 'Terrible Truth', where he comically admonishes both himself and the woman 'I'm a liar a cheater, a sinner, and I'm fake, you're a hater, a deciever, and a diva by mistake!'
Albeit a bit harsh, Gaetano manages to detail emotion without getting too explicit with his lyrical content.
The talent displayed by the 24 year old on this album is enough to make any young lady swoon and any man jealous. Gaetano; along with co writing most of the tracks on this EP, also has a hand in the production of most of the tracks on it.
On the nostalgic track 'Rewind' Gaetano displays his talent in the violin with a short solo of himself playing the instrument. 'Rewind' is a song which he not only produced entirely by himself, but also wrote himself.This leaves the imagination dancing in wonderment, asking what else can he do? Well as his bandcamp site is sure to proclaim, all guitar heard on this EP is played by the artist himself, Gaetano also plays the bass, drums and piano.
The EP is topped with the vocally enchanting 'Cheers to us' the only song not written or co-written by Gaetano himself. The song is a soft ode to love, a far cry from the supremely nasty and sexy track 'stilletos x black dress' which gives an explicit and imaginative yet far from vulgar depiction, of what the Italian falsetto-ist imagines to be a sexy night, Gaetano continues with his unabashedly brasen lyrics,
'Cut right to the chase have you ever been kissed below the waist?'
leading into even more provactive lyrics, 'I've got a face and you've always got a place to sit.'
What? Yes. Yes he did and you can check it out yourself on his bandcamp site, while we await his new, yet to be dated project, 'Music Over Everything'.
http://gaetanomusic1.bandcamp.com/album/ep-fade-away
written by Carlisa Williams
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