Underground Artist Of The Week: Libretto

This weeks underground artist of the week is Libretto. 

I had never heard of Libretto before, but was excited to see 5 of my favorite music people in the industry were friends of this artist. The first thing that Google brought me too when researching this artist was a YouTube show called Don't Move Here, which I found very interesting. How we can be Portlanders who are so into the scene and into what is going on in music and never hear of these side projects baffles me. It is either poor promotions of these ideas of just us with our heads in the sand. The show takes a look at local music and why people are doing what they are doing, but let's get back to Libretto. Libretto came from L.A. to Portland and joined the Portland underground music scene. With mutual friends like Chillest Illest, DJ Fatboy, and Yamio, I was ready to hear some amazing music from an artist that seems to deserve more lime light. 

The first song I found from Libretto was called Volume, which you can also download for free from the link. I was very impressed with the lyrical quality of this artist. He had really well done beats, simple but clear, and a talented voice and ability to add inflection to his words (something that I have continually said artists in the underground seem to be lacking any more). He added variety to his song and the lyrics were catchy.  The next song I checked out by Libretto was called Ride To Dat. I found the video for this on You Tube. The song starts off slow, but the beat is good. The song had pretty hard lyrics that made you think and then the chorus was more laid back. So the mix was okay, but I would have liked the chorus to reflect the true talk coming from the lyrics about life and hard times. I believe he was trying to show that no matter how hard life is that we are all ride or die with our lives and we need to just enjoy the better things in life and relax. 

All in all I was pleased with what I heard and I feel this artist really deserves to be checked out. The full bio, CD information, and location to order songs or albums can be found here. So I would have to give Libretto an 8 out of ten on my underground artists worth paying to see scale, and if you see him playing some were soon hit me up, we'll ride to dat!!