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How does a group overcome being categorized simply as a “retro” act? Well, one way is to avoid falling into the trap of being a cover band, or more so a tribute band. So, that means write original music, but even then a group is going to be marked as having a sound set in a certain era. Is that so bad seeing how music fans in general and soul music fans in particular pine for an organic – some might say – analog sound that is largely missing from the mainstream?
The best way to overcome talk of being derivative is for a band to be simply good at what it does, and nobody will can argue that the brothers Piero and Pippo Lombardo – the guiding forces behind the Italian band Camera Soul - haven’t assembled a very good band that has mastered the lush, brassy, jazz infused arrangements that dominated American airwaves throughout the 1970s.
Oh, that’s the other thing. Nowadays, live funk, soul and R&B bands are best if based in or principally serving the Europe or Asia markets, as soul fans in those countries – or at least the music industry in those overseas markets – are far more open to advancing the kind of music that the Lombardo brothers produced for Dress Code, Camera Soul’s latest recording.
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