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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.
Read more: Jack J Hutchinson's Boom Boom Brotherhood - Set Your Heart For The Sun
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It's somehow incredible how some music artists are able to read and adapt themselves in the constantly mutating world of music industry, showing a remarkable understanding of not only what may work or not work, in the contemporary music scene, but also a certain cleverness in maintaining their artistic identity, without having to compromise their vision and sonic roots.
This is most certainly the case of Masters Of Reality, an American Rock collective that has been abstaining themselves from releasing new studio albums for 16 years, since their previous 2009 album called Pine Cross Dover.
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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.
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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.
