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In early 2024, a new music project called Killerstar was born, led by British artists Rob Fleming on vocals, guitars and synths duties and by James Sedge on drums, proving to be one of the most interesting emerging projects of the year, thanks to a clever and inspired mix of solid songwriting and well-crafted songs, crammed with uplifting choruses, evoking memories of 70's Glam Rock with contemporary free-form Rock'N'Roll.

Killerstar were soon and curiously pigeonholed, in the early days following their eponymous debut album, as a band carrying a strong David Bowie-esque mood within their songs, maybe because Fleming and Sedge had employed, back then, several highly rated fellow music artists who played with Bowie, such as Earl Slick on guitar, Mark Plati on guitars and keyboards, Mike Garson on piano, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, Donny MacCaslin on saxophone, Tim Lefebvre on bass and Emm Gryner on vocals, to play on Killerstar's debut album.

Read more: Killerstar - Live At The 100 Club

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There has not been, since the dawn of this century, an artist able to revolutionise Jazz and transporting it to other levels, album after album, quite like the Japanese Piano and Keyboard giant and composer Hiromi has done so far.
 
Since 2003, when Another Mind, Hiromi’s debut album was released, the Japanese artist had quickly conquered the whole Jazz world, through Hiromi’s highly flamboyant, explosive and mesmerising approach to the genre, merging Acoustic and Contemporary Jazz together with Funk, Fusion, classical Japanese layers of sound and often even Ambient.
 

Read more: Hiromi - Out There

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It would be more than fair to state that, among the whole of Europe, Denmark is one of the very few countries that keeps on consistently producing some of the finest Contemporary Jazz projects of the last couple of decades.

When in 2021 Peter Kohlmetz Møller (Fener Rhodes & Keyboards), Morten Jørgensen (Bass), Mads La Cour (Flugelhorn & Trumpet), Nikolaj Bundvig (Drums) and Simon Krebs (Guitars & Lapsteel), decided to get together to form the collective called Andorra, they might have been far from imagining that their musical journey would have taken them, few years later, into a complex and still highly emotive and fascinating world where, at the basis of their kaleidoscopic sound formula, there is a cinematic aura wrapping their dynamic mix of Jazz, Fusion, Rock and New Age in a sonic bouquet of great intensity.

Read more: Andorra - III

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There is an old adagio, in the music world, which states that very often, great records come out from the pen of a songwriter in the artist’s most dark and struggling moments, moments that dig, evidently, very deeply into the artist’s soul, pushing out a relentless outpouring of emotions and inspired songwriting episodes.

Well, that may be true, but it may be also true that when said artists emerge victorious from these challenging personal moments, the creativity and the inspiration can still flow freely and highly, meaning that fundamentally, no matter at what stage one can be in life, if you are predisposed with natural talent, you will always be able to write inspired music material.

Read more: Big Boy Bloater - Dirty Disco Blues

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Whenever our website comes across to one of those very rare and special records to be reviewed, featuring two masters of Blues-Rock and Blues respectively, like Guitar Maestro and singer-songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Harmonica Supremo and singer-songwriter Bobby Rush who, in their own rights, are considered undisputed masters of said genres, the trepidation and the excitement of getting to hear and write about such a special record goes two notches up, given the worldwide stature of the two American artists.

When the multi-Grammy Awards winner Bobby Rush and Grammy-nominated and multi-Billboard Music Awards winner Kenny Wayne Shepherd met back few years ago, the two artists clicked immediately, artistically speaking, despite the considerable age difference (Rush is 91, while Shepherd will be 48 later this year), because they felt they were speaking an identical music language. 

Read more: Young Fashioned Ways - Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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Although it may sound like a past-due cliché thing to say and contrary to popular belief, in these days and age, Music carries still that strength and power strong enough to create a semblance of unity, within the disconnected society we are living in.

A perfect example of the aforementioned statement comes from pianist, singer/songwriter and composer Macha Gharibian, somebody able to create, through Gharibian's brand new album called Phenomenal Women, not only a sonic bridge between cultures and countries (the artist sings in 5 different languages, English, French, Portuguese, Armenian and Arabic) but also to spread a strong feminist shout about abuses, sexism and inequality that women around the world have to live on their own skin every day.

Read more: Macha Gharibian - Phenomenal Women

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One of the best skills, for a drummer, any drummer, it is to feel the emotions running through their veins and translate them instantaneously into vibes, sounds that can go up and down in scale, depending by what the soul of the drummer is telling to. That instinct, that immediate passage of feeling between the mind and the arms is the most pure and untamed one, because it cannot be measured or controlled. It's raw, genuine, because it emerges in an unplanned manner and that is what makes drumming being very often not only being the backbone part of a song or a composition, but also its very core.
 
Somebody that has for long used drumming as a vehicle to express and explore in music feelings, imageries, memories and so much more, it is the Italian drummer Piero Perelli, an artist that has made an enormous name for himself within the music business by working with some of the biggest names not only in Italian music, like Vinicio Capossela, Edoardo Bennato and Andrea Bocelli, but also with the cream of the Worldwide Music, like Eddie Vedder, Dana Fuchs and Glen Hansard, among others.
 

Read more: Notte - Piero Perelli

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  3. House Of Sticks - Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado
  4. Eugene - Sydereal (EP)
  5. Fabrizio Poggi - Healing Blues

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