Cantinero is the nom de plum of NYC based singer/composer/producer Christopher L Hicken, who makes lovingly crafted Alt Pop. Witty, incisive and coolly melodramatic, with keenly observed insights that chronicle the complicated world we live in.
Using a mixture of live instrumentation with subtle electronic textures, his songs have a subtle mixture of the surprising and the inevitable. The new album Better For The Metaphor – “Best CDs of 2008 NPR”