Mozzy Dee is a band from Las Vegas. The following people were involved in making this music: Dolores D. Fuentes - lead vocals, C.E. Clendening - electric & rhythm guitar, backup vocals; Luke Metz - electric bass guitar; Guido Tries - drums; Shanda Cisneros Ratto - backup vocals and Frankie Lee - backup vocals. Those paying attention will have run into a few of these names in reviews of other bands from Vegas that have come by on these pages.
Orale is an album containing pure rock and roll as played a long time ago. But The Stray Cats?, I hear someone from a younger generation ask. Well, where do you think they got it from? A more important question is: How is it possible to come up with such convincing songs in a genre where everything seemed to have been said and done decades ago? The tandem Fuentes - Clendening simply score big here. Their songs add a lot to what has come by ever since well over sixty years ago. Eddie Cochran especially seems to have been a big inspiration.
There are a few differences. Cochran was a young man when he started recording. Mozzy Dee is full of experienced musicians and can record in a modern way, pumping up the sound compared to 1957 or 58. Add to this 2023 mix the enthusiasm and energy oozing out of the music on Orale. The result is a success album full of swing, jazzy rock and roll, rockabilly and above all the real thing: rock and roll.
I'll admit to have been prone to the idea that I had enough albums of this kind since the early 1990s. It turned out I was missing one. Orale has been added and filled up the gap in my collection. "Orale, orale", alright.
Wout de Natris
You can listen to and order Orale here:
https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/orale
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