Today Was Yesterday - Today Was Yesterday
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
For who truly loves music, it's always a joy to see new inspired musical projects created by artists that perhaps, in the last three decades, have worked mostly behind the scenes in many bands, often being the real bone machine of said bands and now getting together creating something that sums their years of experiences in the business, allowing them, at the same time, also to apply their own personal spin and vision on the way they feel and see music in 2024.
Today Was Yesterday is one of those fine projects, born from the will of two multi-instrumentalists like singer/songwriter, bassist, guitarist, pianist and programmer Angelo Barbera and powerhouse drummer, percussionist and programmer Ty Dennis, with the purpose to cross over the boundaries of what is currently considered contemporary Progressive Rock, by expanding its overall sound through the application of layers of Funk, New-Age and Synth-Wave added to what is seen as the standard sound structure of Prog-Rock, as a genre.
JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
It's so important to have something meaningful to say, in the current music industry, where often the urgency of "having" to release a new album to make the fans happy as fast as possible, it may result as a counterproductive kind of a move, for an artist.
JJ Grey & Mofro have undoubtedly not a problem with that, because they know that quality always pays dividends, no matter when they decide to make another album. Although it might have taken almost a decade, for the Florida-based collective, to release a new record of a certain high standard that could aptly follow the magnitude of a record like their 2015 Ol' Glory, that time has not been wasted in vain at all by the JJ Grey & Mofro, given the excellent outcome.
Kalaha - Nord Havn
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
One of the most liberating feelings, for a music artist, it must surely arrive when you are able to express yourself without being labeled to a genre or a style of music, something not easy to achieve, in the contemporary music industry for virtually anybody, especially considering record labels' contractual strings and obligations to fans that make challenging, for any musical project, to be able to go free-form and let the music flow without constrictions.
There are, though and rather fortunately, some artists or projects that refuse to adhere to genre-related clichés. One of these projects is called Kalaha, a collective made by Danish musicians that, since 2013, have carried in their body of work the idea that music can travel on different wave lengths without losing its identity, something that transpires very clearly and rather beautifully in their new album, called Nord Havn.
