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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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When Music becomes a fundamental part of our lives, among its many positive effects, there is that one related to freedom of expression, that liberating feeling that helps people to channel their emotions and release them to the world, a special power that only Music is able to trigger.
For the last 15 years, Music and Blues Music in particular, have been a real catalyst for the American singer-songwriter and Harmonica Maestro Chris O’Leary, an artist that has lived and still lives quite an intense life on and off the stage, with Music being a loyal and trusted companion that keeps on fuelling his many artistic talents, helping him, at the same time, to share his endless tales of relationships gone wrong, military experiences (O'Leary served as a Marine in the Gulf War) and unfortunate judgements through his impressive vocal skills and on playing harmonica.
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It's rather unusual, in these days and age of Contemporary Music, to come across to an artist able to add irony, beauty, fun and swagger to already remarkable many talents as a singer, songwriter and bass guitar player quite as much as Oregon-based Blues and Funk artist Anni Piper does.
Piper, a strikingly charming Australian-born artist that saw her career taking off even further since her move to the United States in 2014, has always impressed the fans and the critics through the years for her charming lyrical style, coupled by a vocal and overall standout performing presence on stage, the latter being aspects that match very well Anni Piper's talent and witty personality.
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Many capital cities all over the world have got a special music venue that represents the sonic core and history of said cities.
While London has The 100 Club, Amsterdam got the Paradiso or Berlin has the Quasimodo, as some of their most iconic, historical venues, the Danish capital city of Copenhagen has got the Hotel Cecil, a venue that doesn't only serve Art in general, being a notorious Jazzhouse and Playhouse, but it used to be also a lecture hall and an administrative hub for the women’s emancipation movement in Denmark, when the Hotel Cecil was built in 1936.
Read more: Thorbjørn Risager And The Black Tornado - Live At Hotel Cecil
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There is something very comforting in hearing that an artist, in these days and age, keeps on being loyal to the music roots where said artist comes from, as the years go by.
In that respect and undoubtedly, a city like Detroit in the United States that has got an enormous musical heritage, has inspired hundreds of musicians as it keeps on doing today, still, nurturing their imagination and creativity each and every day.
