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Canterro-Solo
Rating: 10 This is a 4-song EP from ex-Farenheit vocalist and if you’re looking for
some excellent AOR rock, this is it. The Key is a nice ballad and opens this disc.
Although a good song, this probably wouldn’t have been my first choice. The Power is
a good rocker. That might have been a better choice for the opening song. The third song,
River Of Love, is another good up tempo song and rounding up this EP is an acoustic
version of The Key. Overall an excellent disc and recommended if you like old Styx-Journey
type music. [c/o Kanduth, Berni, Postfach 155, A-9560 Feldkirchen, AUSTRIA] **See Interview** Email: canterro@aon.at Back to the top |
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Riso di Carpinone
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When I received a few
days ago an e-mail from this nice Austrian singer, Kanduth Bernhard, known in art as
"Canterro", I couldn‘t stop myself from a big laugh (to all of you who
don‘t know, the word "cantero", in neapolitan dialect means "chamber
pot"). But my hilarity finished when I got his 9 songs demo, really well cared, with
a good recording and a good number of interesting songs. My favourite is a stunning pomp
ballad "When Love Hurts", with a crescendo that gave me chills... but I found
really fascinating the rocking refrain of "Free" and the up-tempo "River Of
Love". Canterro‘s pop-Aor is really promising and if he‘ll get better in
the rocking tracks, I guess we italians will have to be afraid of the competition with our
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What A Voice!
Canterro,
Hello! It was with
great pleasure that I recently received your promo pack.Thank you for taking the time to
send it.You have a brilliantly beautiful voice, which reflects the heart and soul in your
singing and in your words. I was truly uplifted! I also found your bio to be of interest
and enjoyed reading about your rebellious school days! Gorgeous photo, too.While I love
and appreciate your music very much, it is not related to the genre of music that I
represent through profiles in the WW newsletter. However, when I send complimentary copies
of the newsletter to members and industry contacts, I will be sure to include a reference
to your style and website.Canterro, I welcome you to keep in touch with me ... anytime.By
the way, Journey‘s "Captured" is an admirable fave and one of mine, too!
Cheers!
Dawn Bekiarian
WorldWide Rockers
Exchange
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Canterro-
Solo (Mega Fant 1995)
If you love AOR, this
EP from Canterro is for you! With excellent songwriting, this cd is comparable to bands
like Journey, but yet the lyrics perhaps set it apart. The lryics on "The Key"
and "Power" are very spiritual (but yet not blatant all out "Christian
lyrics"). My personal favorite is "Power", the vocals on this is great!
Please check out their website at: Canterro
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Canterro - Solo (4 track CD single) 7.5/10
This has to be the
first release from Austria I've ever heard. Not a country you associate with big AOR
bands, but this could be the first.
Canterro is an outfit
which revolves around lead singer Berni "Canterro" Kanduth, a man possessed with
a voice which is very suited to melodic rock. The thing I don't understand about this CD
single is
the order of the
tracks. First track (and therefore, presumably the single) is The Key, a song with a
"nice" acoustic and piano feel to it. But therein lies the problem .... it's too
nice!
Move to track 2 and
now we start to get going! Power is the sort of song that Canterro should be doing all of
the time as it's a damn fine AOR song ... it should also have been the main track on this
single. Great chorus with superb backing vocals, the sort of track you'd find on a Robert
Tepper album and if that isn't a compliment then I don't know what is.
The third track, River
Of Love, continues from where Power left off. Same style song with an excellent
guitar-riff that sounds really 80s, and another strong chorus.
The fourth track is an
unplugged version of The Key. I don't understand why, if they wanted to do an unplugged
version of one of the songs, they chose this track as it isn't too far from unplugged in
its original form.
My recommendation to
the band would be to stick to songs like Power and River Of Love because they do them very
well and Berni's vocals are more suited to them. It'd be interesting to see what direction
a full album would take.
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Contact: c/o Tina
Ehmke P.O. Box 210 212
D-28222 Bremen Germany |
Vocalist
Bernie Kanduth used to be the frontman for a band called FAHRENHEIT in the past (just in
case someone might remember...) and is now fronting a young four-piece by the name
CANTERRO. He´s also helping out another band called BIG ENUFF, whose musicians got
together with him to do his first solo-record, which also got released under the CANTERRO
monicker...Confused? This 4-track ep was recorded at the end of 1994 and feautures
excellent melodie rock / AOR-material. Bernie´s voice is almost perfect for this style of
music as he´s able to sing with a lot of variety and emotions. The opening track
„The Key" is feautured twice (the 2nd version was done unplugged) and
could easily make it in the charts. It´s a really emotional ballad-type song with great
harmonies and a catchy chorus. Some goes for the other songs feauturen here. They all have
great hooklines, a strong vocal delivery and good melodies. If you enjoy AOR-music, you
should other a copy of this ep for öS 100,- (no other currencies mentioned from the
following address:
CANTERRO
c/o Bernie Kanduth
Postfach 155
A-9560 Feldkirchen
Austria
I am looking forward
to hear a full-lengh album of this guys !
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