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Artist
Cargo
12+ albums
hard rockProgressive rockRomanianheavy metalrock
about
There are several groups called Cargo, including: 1. A Dutch hard rock/progressive rock band from the '70s. 2. A Romanian hard rock/heavy metal band formed in 1985. 3. A Danish dance/electronica act. 4. A Japanese house/electronica act. 5. A French duo based in Bordeaux, France making music by way of electronics. Sound samples @ http://soundcloud.com/cargofm 6. A Canadian psychedelic rock band from the '60/70s. 7. A UK Jazz, Funk / Soul band from the '80s 1. The Dutch band This unit started out as SEPTEMBER and recorded a few singles that hold no interest to progheads. They then changed their name to CARGO and recorded their sole album. CARGO consist of brothers Ad and Jan De Hont both on guitars, Willem DeVries on bass and vocals and English drummer Denis Whitbread. The music developed here is a seducing hard rock with a killer twin-guitar attack much in the line of WISHBONE ASH around their "Argus" album. The two brothers play delightfully long and cooperative guitar lines that intertwine beautifully (what a pleasure it is to follow in stereo their progress) proof of their long-standing mutual trust and camaraderie. Dutch Cargo at the Port Of Amsterdam The De Hont and De Vries brothers had found particular favour with the Dutch public under the rock band September with numerous singles in 1970 such as Presley’s “Little Sister” and the De Vries penned “Yelly Rose”. September’s finest cover was an urgent version of Bert Bacharach “Walk On By” which kicks the shit out of t
