Red Room Cinema reviews Maserati's new CD

By Julie Garisto jgaristo@tampabay.com
Published July 20, 2007

This week's CD

MASERATI

Inventions for the New Season (2007, IHaveADagger Records)

Athens, Ga., indie-instrumental band Maserati releases its first LP in four years.

THIS WEEK'S collaborators

Members of Tampa band Red Room Cinema - Brian Burleson, bass; David Teten, guitar; and Doug Fender, synthesizer.

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Brian: (During intro to first track) I feel like Eye of the Tiger is about to bust out.

Doug: Yeah, Rocky's jumping around.

Julie: I keep reading prog rock being associated with Maserati. I guess that's because it's all instrumental. People tend to classify instrumental rock as prog rock. ... (A trickling guitar plays two notes repeatedly, interrupted occasionally by some distant drums and a crash). They take their time with their intros, don't they? Is this still the intro?

Doug: I don't think this counts as an intro. We're 5 minutes and 23 seconds into it right now. (Just after Doug says this, the song changes, with guitars and drums speeding up and getting louder.)

Julie: Aha! That was the intro. They're not following a typical song pattern.

Brian: They probably have it all mapped out. They have a pattern but it's not something you can pick out on the spot.

Julie: This (Track 6) sounds like some kind of Medieval Sci-Fi adventure; like the break of dawn as knights prepare battle!

Doug: We're riding across barren lands on horseback! It sounds more rock than anything they've done - like, "We haven't made music for a while. Let's put out a rock record."

Julie: What's (bassist Steve Scarborough) doing with the bass that stands out here?

Brian: He's doing triplets. It's tackita-tackita-tackita, but it's constant the whole time. I've got to admire that as a bassist because doing that for a long time gets really tiring. Listening to it, it's numbing.

Doug: There are definitely ups and downs.

Dave: Maybe it's like going up the hill and down again and up the mountain and down again, and it all started in the doom cave.

Doug: Now this is really flowy and airy (Track 7). ... I think you could tell they focused a lot on the arrangements of songs.

Brian: They put a lot into the mixing.

Dave: It sounds different than their other stuff.

Julie: This is the kind of album for people who don't just like soft music or hard music but like a little bit of everything.

Doug: It's perfect road trip music.

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