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Cherry Pop

Title - Let Go
Artist - Matt Dorsey

For those unaware, Matt Dorsey is a singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist from Orange County, CA. He has played with Beth Hart, In Continuum, Dave Kerzner, Circuline, Simon Collins, ProgJect, and is a founding member of Sound of Contact.

Let Go is a new collection of songs written and recorded by Matt which stylistically stands as a blend of all the artists and bands that influenced him, including Rush, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, XTC, The Police, Peter Gabriel, Steely Dan and more.

On the album, Matt sings and plays guitars,bass, keyboards, percussion and, on two of the songs, even the drums. Marco Minnemann provides drums on three tracks and Jonathan Mover on another three, whilst Dave Kerner performs a keyboard solo that he wrote for one of the songs.

1. Castles Made of Sand
2. Compromise
3. Waiting for the Fall
4. Man
5. Impossible Friends
6. Echo
7. Let Go
8. Dangerous

On an album best described as progressive-pop-rock, the opening track is the all-encompassing, rock--prog-blues of Castles Made of Sand, and that is followed by the ambient AOR of Compromise, the sonically euphoric Waiting for the Fall, and then comes the free flowing, majestically soaring, frenetically-charged Man.

Along next is the Spanish-guitar imbued, lovelorn story told within Impossible Friends, which is itself backed by the lighter guitar work found within the airy hop-skip of Echo, the album rounding out on the heavier sounds of the titular Let Go, closing on the rhythmic pop-rock of Dangerous.

Says Matt, Let Go is a collection of songs that cover many aspects of life. I studied philosophy in college and the first song I wrote following my studies was MAN, which is something of a summary of the human condition and a celebration of the mystery and miracle of human existence. Following my college days, I shifted my focus from western to eastern philosophy and you can hear a sense of that influence in the song Echo which expresses a deep connection with all living things.

Let Go, too, is a reflection of the eastern philosophical tradition expressing a sort of taoist disposition toward the flow of things and a zen-like non-attachment. Waiting for the Fall and Castles Made of Sand are a bit darker, expressing a more existential despair, the one about perpetual failure and the other about the fleeting nature of time. But, to round the album out, Compromise, Dangerous and Impossible Friends are more straight-forward love songs. Life is many things. Art should reflect that. Let Go is an album about the philosophy of life.

The album contains 8 tracks recorded almost entirely at Matt’s home studio in Orange County, except for the drum tracks provided by Minnemann and Mover, and the keyboard solo by Kerzner. The album was mixed by Matt and mastered by Andy VanDette. The album artwork was created by Ed Unitsky.

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