randyeno

ABOUT

"I'd like society to have an open mind about music and not believe everything you hear on the radio and television. Investigate different ideas."
The man who says this sits in a nearly empty Deep Ellum restaurant between the breakfast and lunchtime rushes, preaching to an audience of one. Dressed entirely in black from his head (which is covered in a black bandana) to his hands (encased in gloves that are missing their fingers), Randy sits across a Cafe Brazil table eager to talk about his creation, the just-released CD Symptom of Society, which he wrote and recorded and released almost entirely by himself from his DeSoto home under the monicker "Randy1."

Screen name:: randyeno
Member since:: Oct 04 2021; Active over 1 month ago
Level of commitment:: Moderately Committed
Years playing music:: 7
Tend to practice:: More than 3 times per week

Influences

Listening to the second part of the album, one can spot the psychedelic rock and R&B influences, especially those of the symbol formerly known as Prince (whose influence is obvious, right down to Randy's nom de funk and the purple cover art that bears the symbols for male and female). Randy, shrugs at the comparison and insists the influences are on a subconscious level. If nothing else, much of his music--like Prince's--seems to exist a bit out of synch with the rest of the R&B world; it sounds as though it were recorded in a vacuum, the grooves hard to find among the swirling, off-tempo rhythms and dense synth-created music.
"In a way, Prince and I have similar Midwestern backgrounds--playing a lot of rock with musicians from different ethnic backgrounds, breaking down boundaries."