Portland trio · groove rock · Kemai Records

Dorado

Three-piece. Drums, guitar, bass.

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Dorado: Sky Cooper, John Gobel and James Ford, cut out in black and white, with the DTV television
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Music

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Way of the World cover

Way of the World

ALBUM · Jan 2026

The album Way of the World is about modern living with technology (All the way the World), modern dating (Easy, Met a Girl), the drug and homeless crisis (Zombie RV), using your

  1. 1All the Way the World4:21
  2. 2Easy3:09
  3. 3Zombie RV3:56
  4. 4Run Up Your Hill3:10
  5. 5Spring Break4:36
  6. 6Met A Girl2:36
  7. 7Don't Mean Nothing2:52
  8. 8running1:44
  9. 9can't hold me closer1:37
  10. 10night of the living basshead1:53
  11. 11steady streaming2:24
  12. 12broke apart and couldn't mend1:19
  13. 13holiday3:37
Album page: credits, lyrics, licensing
Can't Sleep! cover

Can't Sleep!

ALBUM · July 2018

Dorado's 2018 album: nine songs, among them a Nirvana cover (Heart Shaped Box) and a new recording of Working Sunday, the opener of the 2007 record Dorado Sound. Drums and bass

  1. 1Can't Sleep!3:31
  2. 2never did this for the money...0:50
  3. 3Didn't Get Paid3:40
  4. 4Heart Shaped Box5:15
  5. 5Demons4:02
  6. 6five02:55
  7. 7Kiss Me Goodbye3:58
  8. 8Roll Me Over3:43
  9. 9Working Sunday2:20
Album page: credits, lyrics, licensing
Dorado Sound cover

Dorado Sound

ALBUM · June 2007 · Stream only

Dorado's first album, recorded in Portland between 2004 and 2006 and released in June 2007. Eleven songs with a horn section, DJs, fiddle and banjo, and some twenty Portland

  1. 1Working Sunday5:17
  2. 2Take Some Time5:27
  3. 3Hear Me4:26
  4. 4Who's to Say5:19
  5. 5The Verse4:47
  6. 6Al's Song4:24
  7. 7Stories1:26
  8. 82 Shades Black5:11
  9. 9Over the Hill5:44
  10. 10African Appalachian1:33
  11. 11Sinister Minister3:19
Album page: credits, lyrics, licensing
About

Three of us

Drums, guitar, bass.

Sky Cooper

Sky Cooper

guitar/vox

Sky Cooper was born in Australia. He doesn't really have much of an accent though, it's more east coast sounding. That's because he lived in Boston from 3-10. Now he lives in Portland and plays guitar.

John Gobel

John Gobel

bass/taurus/vox

This dude is crazy. Plus he can play bass, and sing and rap at the same time he plays synth with his foot...

James Ford

James Ford

drums/sampler/vox

Well, he's the drummer, so, you know...there's not really much to write about. But he's really good, and sometimes he wears hats.

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