The Cambiata Releases Third Self-Titled Album

By Jaye Drew, freelance writer
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
If you haven't been stricken curious enough to check out your local Alternative Rock heroes, The Cambiata, your loses are stacking up. With their third self-titled album, The Cambiata renews an unspoken vow to keep metamorphosing and developing an unmatched sound.

Rich with the vast musicality familiar to the five-some, the self-titled album is a more thematically meditative work than the volcanic thrust of its predecessor. Equally emotional and waxing more melodic, 'The Cambiata' is like the cigarette after the sex of 'To Heal'.

Appealing to a wide range of ages and musical tastes, The Cambiata have been making themselves available to the all-ages crowd since they started this thing. What they have to offer may be a striking contrast to the mainstream contemporary rock that much of the all- ages crowd is accustomed to. Bringing a dose of intelligence and grace to the 'hard rock alternative' scene, it's no wonder the kids "keep falling for it" (as one local disc jockey put it at the release show the other night).

Stacking up numerous accolades including Portland Phoenix Awards for Best Live Act in 2007 and 2008 and Best Album in 2008, the group could sweep up a couple in 2009 with the album released just last week. Having made The Portland Press Herald's 'Top Ten Maine Bands to Watch' in January of 2008, the ensemble has been picking up relentless static since their formation in 2006.

With that said, I'm disappointed that I forgot to get my copy of 'The Cambiata' signed at the show the other night (I was spending a little too much time in the 21+ area). Good thing they will be at Bull Moose Music to provide and sign copies of the album in three locations this weekend.

Chris Moulton (vocals), Miguel Barajas (lead guitar, loops), Sean Morin (guitar, rhodes, keys, loops), Stan Dzengelewski (bass, keys) and Dan Capaldi (drums, percussion, xylophone) co-write songs for The Cambiata. They will all write on your copy of the album if you bring it along or buy one at Bull Moose in Scarborough on January 16th, in Lewiston on the 17th, and in Bangor on the 18th. Experience the 'Best Live Show' in Portland on January 24th at The Big Easy when The Cambiata share a stage with Dominic and The Lucid and The School Spirit Mafia.