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Chicano Music has gone through a lot of transformations and highs and lows, in the last half a century, sometimes in a good way, some other time not really up to the standards that the genre's Kingpin, Lalo Guerrero, reached in the late 40's.


It is therefore refreshing that a record that sticks to the traditions and the foundations of Chicano Music, with a little contemporary twist, like Johnny & Jaalene sees the light of the day right now, in 2018.

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One of the secrets behind the success of a great album is the ability to keep the sound fresh and vibrant throughout the record, at the same time entertaining the listeners and jiggling different musical layers that magically fits inside one another, like a perfectly shaped sonic Matrioska.

This is something that the Leicester-born and London-based troubadour Jack J Hutchinson and his band of brothers Boom Boom Brotherhood fully manage to achieve in their debut album called Set Your Heart For The Sun.

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It's rather a heart-warming feeling to acknowledge that even in 2025, there are still artists in the Music Wide World that still appreciate the ground breaking contribution to 70's Rock Psychedelia of an inspired, although very emotionally fragile artist like Roger Keith Barrett, better known as Syd, guitarist, singer-songwriter and co-founder of one of the most loved Rock bands of the last century, Pink Floyd. 

Although Barrett's short-lived career in the music industry was heavily corroded by heavy usage of drugs and mental illness, it's indisputable that Syd Barrett had a very singular approach to song-writing and performing style, employing also a generous use of echoes, feedback and distortions in his compositions, with some truly surprising results.

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Blues is one of those music genres about which many experts and artists have provided their own definition, or translated their vision of Blues by portraying it in a more updated way, often taking away, though, the essence and the origin of the genre itself and partly, what it used to stand for.
 
Rather fortunately, the Italian Grammy-nominated Harmonica Blues Maestro and singer/songwriter Fabrizio Poggi has, instead, always maintained, throughout his illustrious career, a sense of loyalty towards Traditional Blues and/or Gospel, adhering to their sonic standards with huge respect for their tradition and history, receiving enormous accolades from the music press, fellow music artists and fans from all over the world. 
 

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Of all the music makers, producers and singer/songwriters in the world, one can surely stands out for his open-minded understanding and appreciation of music at 360 degrees applied to dance floors and club culture, is most certainly Richard Melville Hall, better known internationally as Moby.
 
With an illustrious career spanning across 3 decades, where the New York artist has recorded more than 20 albums, written 4 books and won numerous awards, Moby has returned, just towards the end of 2024, with a monumental release of a double album called Always Centered At Night - Remixes, which comprises 58 tracks recorded with different vocalists and with the usual clever and spectacularly beautiful approach to different sonic backgrounds that have made of Moby the exceptional artist he is and, very likely, will continue to be.
 

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How marvelous must be for some music artists to be able to get away of their sonic comfort zone and explore different musical alleyways still obtaining astounding results.
 
Whilst not many are able to achieve that artistic goal, it's rather refreshing to see affirmed artists such as Pianist and Keyboardist Bill Laurance and Composer, Multi-instrumentalist and Producer Michael League, better known as the highly successful ensemble called Snarky Puppy, exploring a more meditative music path, although still maintaining some elements of extravagance in their improvisations, for which Snarky Puppy, as a project, excels in.
 

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It is very refreshing to notice that European artists still provide, in a time of the world when sometimes music can be felt a bit flat and repetitive, so much vital sonic oxygenation and creativity in every field to the art of music.

Italy is one of those many countries in Europe that particularly keeps on delivering consistently a range of artists that excel on marrying lyrical brushes of geniality with visionary and instinctive musical arrangements with fabulous results, as our website has often discovered when reviewing bodies of work of Italian artists.

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  1. Beth Hart - You Still Got Me
  2. A Plane To Catch - Soul Piece
  3. Eric Pan - Travel Poems
  4. Jimmy Carpenter - Just Got Started
  5. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.2

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