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Various Artists - Heavenly Cream: An Acoustic Tribute To Cream

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: October 04, 2023

Labours of love often don't get built in a short amount of time but, due to their magnitude and vision, they may sometimes take years, before they materialize.

This, in short, it is a little backstory behind the making on one of the most phenomenal retrospective albums that our website has come across for a very long time, concerning one of the most iconic Rock bands of all the time, which included Eric Clapton on vocals and guitars, Jack Bruce on bass guitar and vocals and Ginger Baker on drums. Naturally, we are talking about Cream.

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Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Sonicwonderland

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: September 30, 2023

Moving forward has always been one of the biggest dilemmas for many music artists, especially in recent years  That slight uncertainty and reticence on trying and doing different things, not because of lack of inner talent, but maybe just for the fear of losing fans, when trying to move towards different sonic tangents.

Thankfully, there are also many artists out there that love to challenge themselves, expanding their artform to new musical alleyways, unafraid of bringing their music and their vision to alternative sonic routes, where their core expression is clearly still there, but pushed now to new limits, by amalgamating it with different music genres.

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Matteo Mancuso – Live At The O2 Islington – London (UK) 27/09/2023

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: September 28, 2023

There was a certain autumn feeling,  last night, in the air temperature, that one can breathe in the UK capital, with fairly mild daily temperatures and pockets of humidity here and there, replaced, as the light of the day fades out, by a breezy and slightly chilled wind.

One thing that remained constant, though, last night in London, was the rising temperature in the venue where the Italian Guitar Virtuoso Matteo Mancuso performed in, for one night only for the UK crowds, showcasing his instrumental debut album called The Journey, a record where the 26-years-old from Sicily displayed bags of talent as a guitar player in a very eclectic fashion, by mixing layers of Jazz Fusion, Rock and World Music with remarkable class and originality.

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