Comments on: Motor City Drum Ensemble, Lonely One

By: DDee

DDee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:16:42 +0000

Something I’ve wondered about too! Definitely not MCDE’s best record, no matter what name it’s under.

By: littlewhiteearbuds

littlewhiteearbuds — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:26:45 +0000

@ Jürgen: That is a good explanation and not one I doubt. I made sure to mention Stuttgart’s claim to fame.

The reason I focused on the name (as mentioned in the first and third paragraphs) is that I was more intrigued by the different possibilities regarding Danilo’s chosen name than the three tracks on offer. I wanted to use the review platform to examine the questions I had from a couple angles as means to sate my suspicions. I don’t think badly of Danilo for his choice, nor do I think it necessarily takes away from the music. But when I hear a record whose sound is sort of ho-hum, my mind drifts to different things.

By: RoK

RoK — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:16:41 +0000

As you have stated, but I’m 99% certain it is not meant to associate Detroit to the sounds on display.

By: RoK

RoK — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:14:47 +0000

The Motor City-label refers to Stuttgart, which, like Detroit, is a car manifacturing city in Germany.

By: Jürgen Plessow

Jürgen Plessow — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:02:56 +0000

No wonderment at all about MCDE’s artist-name! There is a very simple and wellknown explication : His homebase Stuttgart worldwide is renowned as Germanys motor city with business enterprises like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi (nearby), Bosch and others ! And Danilo has begun his musical career
(at the age of not quite six years) as a drummer.
(By the way: Would’nt it make more sense to focus
on his music than on his guise ?)

jogileo