DITO MONTIEL

Dito Montiel

$13.98 CD

Montiel's solo debut and first album since the disbanding of his alt-rock band Gutterboy over fifteen years ago. Features the lead single "Crossing Rivers," plus highlights including "Fade Away," "Jimmy & Rey," and "You And I (We Burn Like Satellites)."

NYC based musician, songwriter and author Dito Montiel first rose to fame in L.A. in the late '80s when his alt-rock band Gutterboy landed a $1 million record deal, an extraordinary sum at the time. The band was dropped after one album, and Dito returned east. On his self-titled solo debut for Rhino, the multi-talented Montiel has recorded—with assorted friends and pickup bands—fifteen original songs written over the last fifteen years. A pop-saturated, soaringly melodic street opera, the disc spotlights Montiel's poetic, lyrical brilliance, and musical savvy on stand-outs including "Jimmy & Rey," "You And I (We Burn Like Satellites)," and the single, "Crossing Rivers."

The vivid world the album conjures up is a dynamic corollary to Montiel's acclaimed 2003 book A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a fictionalized account of his life growing up in Astoria, Queens, during the rise of hardcore, now an independent feature (starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Dito) that earned him a Dramatic Directing award at Sundance.

Selection # 147452