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JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: February 18, 2024

It's so important to have something meaningful to say, in the current music industry, where often the urgency of "having" to release a new album to make the fans happy as fast as possible, it may result as a counterproductive kind of a move, for an artist.

JJ Grey & Mofro have undoubtedly not a problem with that, because they know that quality always pays dividends, no matter when they decide to make another album. Although it might have taken almost a decade, for the Florida-based collective, to release a new record of a certain high standard that could aptly follow the magnitude of a record like their 2015 Ol' Glory, that time has not been wasted in vain at all by the JJ Grey & Mofro, given the excellent outcome.

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Kalaha - Nord Havn

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: February 17, 2024

One of the most liberating feelings, for a music artist, it must surely arrive when you are able to express yourself without being labeled to a genre or a style of music, something not easy to achieve, in the contemporary music industry for virtually anybody, especially considering record labels' contractual strings and obligations to fans that make challenging, for any musical project, to be able to go free-form and let the music flow without constrictions.

 

There are, though and rather fortunately, some artists or projects that refuse to adhere to genre-related clichés. One of these projects is called Kalaha, a collective made by Danish musicians that, since 2013, have carried in their body of work the idea that music can travel on different wave lengths without losing its identity, something that transpires very clearly and rather beautifully in their new album, called Nord Havn.

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Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages - Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: February 05, 2024

It's rather refreshing to see somebody that has heavily contributed, through his unmistakable guitar playing, the Rock music of the 70's being still inspired by love for music in its globality, letting loose and thoroughly enjoying himself still in these days and age. 

 

The Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger doesn't need any particular introduction at all, not even to those that have not familiar to Rock'N'Roll for very long. His guitar sound has permeated not only the music of a seminal band like The Doors but the whole of a decade of music and beyond even as a solo artist, making Krieger being recognised as one of the 100 most loved and influential guitarists of all time by a prestigious magazine like Rolling Stone.

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Christoph Grab's Reflections - Oneness

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: February 03, 2024
Gone are the days when artists were used to record an album in only one day in studio, especially now, in a time of the world where some music genres are over-manipulated and artificially created layers of sound are heavily disturbing the purity and the essence of real music played by real people.
 
Once in a while, though, it is still possible to bump into records made in only 24 hours by a group of highly skilled musicians that let the imagination and improvisation take them away in a corner of the mind and soul where there is no limit to genuine spontaneity, creativity and total musical freedom.
 

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Jack J Hutchinson - Battles

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: January 28, 2024

For several years now, the British Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Jack J Hutchinson has been identified by the UK Music press as one of the hottest and most inspired UK Rock artists of the last decade.

True to be told, Bluebird Reviews had spotted already ample signals of Hutchinson's artistic talent since a while, now, especially through some of the British artist's past records that our website was honoured to review, such as the 2017's Paint No Fiction and 2019's Who Feeds The Wolf?, where our website had clearly seen seeds of the musical growth of the guitarist and singer/songwriter, moving from a more Glam and Acid-Rock style to a more aggressive one, verging between 70's Psychedelia and stadium Hard-Rock style.

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Aurelia - Rays Of Light

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: January 22, 2024

In a society like the one where we are living in, where often music gets created and consumed too much in a hurry and disposed with equal velocity, it is incredibly heartwarming to still be able to find someone able to connect with music at 360 degrees, through building her own instrument herself and later becoming one body and one soul with it, where no one is able to spot where one ends and the other begins.

This is the case of the Denmark-based harpist and singer/songwriter Aurelia, who has just released her debut album called Rays Of Light, a record of extraordinary beauty and great mysticism, an album where the young artist was able to release her love for people, nature and life in general in such effortless style, revealing enormous talent in all aspect of Aurelia's artistry.

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Jeppe Zacho - Introducing Jeppe Zacho

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: January 17, 2024

Scandinavia has constantly proven, through the years, to be one of the leading countries in Europe for Jazz artists, artists able to embrace the sounds and the styles of the Masters of the genre and transporting them in a more modern dimension, in a space where they are free to explore their own musicianship and still being able to homage their music heroes.

One of those many creative and very talented artists, it is the Danish saxophonist Jeppe Zacho, someone that loves to define his playing style, as Zacho also highlighted in the liner notes of his debut album just released and called Introducing Jeppe Zacho, as "Modern Jazz In The Old Fashioned Way".

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  2. Bud Spencer Blues Explosion - Next Big Niente
  3. Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.1
  4. Daniel Karlsson Trio - Sorry Boss
  5. Naoko Sakata - Infinity

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