C8ke by Coke Belda

As a matter of course, there are all sorts of clever look-heres! and there-toos! in Coke Belda’s work. Crafting seven collections of original writings and warmhearted thank-you-for-the-music covers is no easy task, even if it seems that it is.

We expect excellence aside from the creative spark fueling each new Belda release because this musician has never let us down. Here, the dozen new songs populating the cleverly-titled C8ke take their cue from what has come before and apply some kind of special sauce to the proceedings for a rip-roaring, anything-melodic-goes-in kind of listening experience. What comes out is something delicious and new.

What comes out is deeply-faceted harmony stacks that wheedle their way in and out of elastic melodies, and song structures that start their journeys here and end up there. Plus, there are those lyrical guitars and that voice, that nimble instrument easily fashioned as needed, as pliable as necessary.

What comes out—what will come out—at C8ke’s conclusion, is a more-than-satisfied you and, undoubtedly, the strong desire to listen again.

You heard it here first.

Alan Haber, baking the C8ke

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