Winter's Daugher

At first I found Facebook chat to be retarded, but now I appreciate all of the wonderful conversations it has provided me with. Last night, for example, Jacquie and I had an interesting conversation about ego, concept albums, and her brand new Macbook. The concept album discussion spurred from a brief mention of Studentin, a four song EP by one of my favorite bands called Good Night and Good Morning. Eventually the conversation turned to RickoLus' concept album Winter's Daughter, which I consider to be the best thing I have ever heard.
The thing with RickoLus (Richard Colado) is that nobody knows about him. I found out about his music through another one man band from the same city called Radical Face (Alex, there shall be lots of Radical Face on your CDR). Ben Cooper (the brains behind Radical Face) worked at the same movie theater as Richard Colado in high-school, and they collaborated in a project called Headache and Pearl Harbour. Anyways, RickoLus is not signed to any label, and he does not post his work anywhere other than on his MySpace and personal website. The only way to get your hands on a CD of his is to e-mail the man himself and ask for him to burn you one. He'll sew you a case for it, and even write out all of the lyrics by hand. If that's not indie, I don't know what is. With all this you'd expect the sound to be pretty lo-fi. It's not. The quality is incredible, and his musical talent is worth much more recognition.
Winter's Daughter is RickoLus' latest release. It tells the tale of Maryn Winter, who is the daughter of the season winter, and Emory Tate, the boy who woke up the sun.

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Extras...

Headache and Pearl Harbour - Talk About Machines
Good Night and Good Morning - Make Things Better

All the best in the new year,

-Cory