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It would be fair to say that many marvellous records are often the outcome of painful or particularly hard times in the life of a music artist. A little like what happened to one of the biggest music revelations in the British music industry, Roxanne De Bastion, a very talented singer/songwriter who, through her 2021 album You And Me, We Are The Same, a truly wonderfully written, arranged and sang record that dealt with the loss of De Bastion’s father Richard, a music artist himself that played a huge part in the personal and artistic growth of the London-based artist.
An album produced by a highly renowned British artist like Bernard Butler, You And Me, We Are The Same is a record that catapulted even further the talent of Roxanne De Bastion to the attention of the medias in the United Kingdom, after the young half-British half-German singer/songwriter had already impressed few years ago music fans and the media world with the release of her 2017 album, called Heirlooms & Hearsay. Following a triumphant 2022, where De Bastion toured incessantly the You And Me, We Are The Same album around the whole of the country, joining, at one point, also one of the most celebrated worldwide Synth/Pop artists of the last 4 decades, Howard Jones, as his opening act, the singer/songwriter decided to frame one of her most successful years of her career to date with an intimate live recording at St. Pancras Old Church in London, now released also as a record via Bandcamp, both in digital and physical format.
Read more: Empathize And Connect - In Conversation With Roxanne De Bastion
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The year 2022 has been a year of some truly fabulous music releases and our website had the privilege to cover and review the new record of one of the most talented and highly versatile pianists and composers in the contemporary American music scene, Danny Holt. The album, called Piano Music Of Mike Garson, as the title suggests, is a record that pays homage to one of the greatest pianists of the last half a century, somebody that has truly revolutionized, either through his solo albums or by collaborating with the cream of the music industry, the history of contemporary Avant-Garde Jazz, Rock and even Pop music.
Piano Music Of Mike Garson is the very first album ever released dedicated to Mike Garson's solo career and his compositions, a record containing a selection of some of Garson's thousands of pieces written and recorded in 50-plus years of Garson's illustrious career, carefully chosen by Holt and performed at an extremely high level of musicianship and remarkable precision and attention to details.
Read more: My Time With Garson - In Conversation With Pianist And Composer Danny Holt
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As much as the society we are living in tries to discourage the current generation to use art-forms as a liberal and constructive way to express themselves, it is rather refreshing to hear, to these days, success stories happening through the power of that marvelous art that is music, particularly, the one about the Edinburgh-based pianist and composer Sean Logan.
The young Scottish artist didn't have exactly the easiest start in life possible, having to struggle with diagnosed neurodiverse conditions already at a very young age. Still, though, learning to play piano in his teenage years, as a sort of communicative vehicle, helped him a lot to boost the necessary confidence to go to local clubs or small venues and play music on open mic evenings to relatively small crowds, something that gave Logan the possibility to express in all its beauty his great personality, together with the talent and creativity of the Scottish artist.
Read more: Freedom Of Expression - In Conversation With Pianist Sean Logan
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It's always a great privilege, for our website, to be able to talk to some inspiring artists coming from all around the world, showcasing not only their own musical talent at any possible level but also their life stories.
One of those highly gifted artists is, most certainly, South-African Blues/Rock guitarists and singer/songwriter Dan Patlansky, somebody that has always loved to tinge his well-crafted songs with snippets of personal life experiences through his tried-and-true playing style that has made Patlansky one of the most acclaimed artists of the genre in many different parts of the world.
Read more: A Journey Of Re-Discovering - In Conversation With Dan Patlansky
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Throughout the whole, majestic songbook that David Bowie has left to the world, with albums that have made a mark in music history, not many may have either understood or appreciated the importance of The Buddha Of Suburbia album, Bowie’s 19th of his personal discography.
A project intended to be as the soundtrack of the BBC TV series adaption of the book of the same name written by the South Asian and English descent writer Harif Kureishi, while promoting his due-to-be-released album Black Tie, White Noise, The Buddha Of Suburbia was conceived in a period of Bowie’s career that could be considered as transitional, to say the least, where perhaps the artist himself was not totally sure of what direction his music was going to take, in the early 90’s.
Read more: David Bowie: 30 Years Of The Buddha Of Suburbia - In Conversation With Erdal Kizilcay
- Ballad Of A Family Man - In Conversation With Kenny Wayne Shepherd
- 25 Anni Di Tabula Rasa Elettrificata - In Conversazione Con Gianni Maroccolo, Gigi Cavalli Cocchi e Massimo Zamboni Del Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti (C.S.I.) - Italian version only
- Tales From The Road - In Conversation With David Libert
- Still Fired Up! - In Conversation With Howard Jones
