"Verdadero Fruto" CD - Matías Betti

review by Greg Howard. For sample mp3s, please visit: http://www.stick.com/videoscds/cds/betti.html Musicians:Matías Betti: Chapman StickAndrea Alvarez: Batería y percusiónSergio Alvarez: GuitarraRenzo Baltuzzi: GuitarraPablo Belmes: Cajón PeruanoBerro: GuitarraGuillermo Cides: Stick ambientsAdrià Grandia: ZanfonaLulo Isod: BateríaArgentine Stickist Matías Betti's Verdadero Fruto is a diverse and impressive debut Stick CD. These eleven instrumentals run the stylistic gamut from his own raucous composition "Tras los Pasos del Gigante," where he slaps and whacks his ten string Stick in time with the heavy rock drums of Andrea Alvarez, to romantic ballads, like the theme from Charles Chaplin's 1952 film "Limelight" ("Candilejas"), also composed by Chaplin. "Alfonsina Y El Mar" is a lilting waltz by Félix Luna and Ariel Ramirez, a tribute to Alfonsina Storni, the Argentine poet who ended her life by drowning herself in the sea. Matías shows a remarkable gift for getting inside the tune, te