Max Richter - Sleep Circle
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
About 10 years ago, one of the most interesting and ambitious music projects called Sleep, a composition made of eight and half hour of music, was released by the renowned German-born British composer and pianist Max Richter, reaching the remarkable goal to be the first classical composition to reach 1 billion streams worldwide.
When this magniloquent record was originally planned, the intent of the pianist and composer was to create a journey into a human mind during the sleeping cycle, more specifically, between wakefulness and sleep, where our minds create dreams.
Eric Gales - A Tribute To LJK
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
There are no doubts whatsoever that talent runs strongly, in the DNA of the Gales Family, in particular, between brothers Eric, Eugene and the late great Emmanuel Lynn, the latter better known, artistically, as Little Jimmy King.
Little Jimmy King, or LJK, as his brother and Guitarist Extraordinaire Eric Gales calls him affectionally, was an American Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter that had a very successful career spanned throughout the 80's and the 90's, a career that saw him working with both his brothers and also with a giant of Blues such as Albert King, together with fronting his own band called Little Jimmy King & the Memphis Soul Survivors, soon after he left Albert King's band.
Yumi Ito - Lonely Island
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
The world is full of music experts willing to judge what separates a true artist from a manufactured one and, inevitably, each of them will always have a different point of view on this matter.
To our website, by listening to countless hours of music on a daily basis, that difference is created by different factors; of course, natural talent and ability, either as a singer/songwriter or as a singer and/or a musician too, all those elements play a fundamental role in spotting that difference, but there is more to it.
