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One of the ultimate goals for an artist, any artist in any music genre, it is to create an emotional symmetry between said artist and a crowd, a concept that finds its application and validation solely through a life performance.
While this goal may be relatively easier to achieve in a large, noisy context such as an arena, with several thousands people clapping and singing to an artist or a band playing their biggest hits, to play for an audience of only 50 people instead and being able to take that crowd to join that artist on a musical journey, armed with only a grand piano and few sonic sketches on which to improvise on for an hour or so, that requests bags of pure talent.
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Within the Blues/Rock business worldwide, there was a lot of trepidation about the release of Blood Brothers’ second album, especially given the exceptional amount of accolades received from fans of the genre and press, when their debut album was originally released in 2023.
A very successful side project of two contemporary giants of the genre, Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia, the project is a natural development of a personal and musical friendship between the two artists that has been going on for almost two decades, an artistic and human collaboration that, in time, brought the American guitarists and singer/songwriters to record an album together that would chisel even more their musical and personal bond.
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Whenever there is a new record release coming from the Jazz-Latin-R&B inspired British sensation Matt Bianco, there is always an uplifting mood in the air.
A band that has topped the Top 10 charts of half the world, back in 1984, through the debut album called Whose Side Are You On?, Matt Bianco, originally a trio counting, in its line-up, keyboard player Danny White and vocalists Basia Trzetrzelewska and Mark Reilly, is now left with the sole Reilly running gloriously the band's name, after White and Trzetrzelewska left on their own accord.
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Our website has come across more and more, in recent times, to the phenomenal current Scandinavian Jazz scene.
Sweden and Denmark, particularly, seem to be able to keep on producing artists of the finest level, with the innate capability to incorporate in their reading of Contemporary Jazz inspired elements of inventiveness in their compositional approach which, combined with their exceptional many musical talents, make possible for them to deliver records of the highest possible quality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
