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Paul Schreuder - Rosetta Road
Dutch born, Raumati- domilciled Schreuder is a well know singer- songwriter around town, having first come to prominance as the winner of the APRA Silver Scroll composition award back in 1980.
On this his third album, he's in a refletive mood, the songs having been written while he studied for an MA in psychology at Massey University. The title track, as Kapiti residents will guess takes it's name from the road where Schreuder's lived for several years.
The material falls broadly into what Americans call the AOR (adult- orientated rock) catergory, ranging from gentle, country-fringed ballads to soft rock. On boy cies wolf, which is about domestic violence, I thought i even detectedf faint echoes of Steely Dan.
It would be doing this album a disservice to call it "easy listnening". It is certainly that, but the songs reward repeated hearings. The lyrics are intelligent. the tunes satisfyingly structure, the production crisp nnd clean, and the backing - by some of Schreuder's long time musical associates - stylish and assured. An album, that deserves a bigger audience than it will probably get.
Paul Schreuder - Rosetta Road
Dutch born, Raumati- domilciled Schreuder is a well know singer- songwriter around town, having first come to prominance as the winner of the APRA Silver Scroll composition award back in 1980.
On this his third album, he's in a refletive mood, the songs having been written while he studied for an MA in psychology at Massey University. The title track, as Kapiti residents will guess takes it's name from the road where Schreuder's lived for several years.
The material falls broadly into what Americans call the AOR (adult- orientated rock) catergory, ranging from gentle, country-fringed ballads to soft rock. On boy cies wolf, which is about domestic violence, I thought i even detectedf faint echoes of Steely Dan.
It would be doing this album a disservice to call it "easy listnening". It is certainly that, but the songs reward repeated hearings. The lyrics are intelligent. the tunes satisfyingly structure, the production crisp nnd clean, and the backing - by some of Schreuder's long time musical associates - stylish and assured. An album, that deserves a bigger audience than it will probably get.