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About 10 years ago, one of the most interesting and ambitious music projects called Sleep, a composition made of eight and half hour of music, was released by the renowned German-born British composer and pianist Max Richter, reaching the remarkable goal to be the first classical composition to reach 1 billion streams worldwide.
When this magniloquent record was originally planned, the intent of the pianist and composer was to create a journey into a human mind during the sleeping cycle, more specifically, between wakefulness and sleep, where our minds create dreams.
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There are no doubts whatsoever that talent runs strongly, in the DNA of the Gales Family, in particular, between brothers Eric, Eugene and the late great Emmanuel Lynn, the latter better known, artistically, as Little Jimmy King.
Little Jimmy King, or LJK, as his brother and Guitarist Extraordinaire Eric Gales calls him affectionally, was an American Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter that had a very successful career spanned throughout the 80's and the 90's, a career that saw him working with both his brothers and also with a giant of Blues such as Albert King, together with fronting his own band called Little Jimmy King & the Memphis Soul Survivors, soon after he left Albert King's band.
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The world is full of music experts willing to judge what separates a true artist from a manufactured one and, inevitably, each of them will always have a different point of view on this matter.
To our website, by listening to countless hours of music on a daily basis, that difference is created by different factors; of course, natural talent and ability, either as a singer/songwriter or as a singer and/or a musician too, all those elements play a fundamental role in spotting that difference, but there is more to it.
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Music is an art form that is never simple to describe; it's a celebration of life, it's creativity, it's light and dark, good times and bad ones and, fundamentally, the soundtrack of everyone's life.
Said soundtracks though may not necessarily come from radio airplays or any media in general, but they might often come unexpectedly from the speaker of a car radio, or when we are at a restaurant, or at a beach, where we wouldn't necessary know the song title or the artist performing it, but we would remember the moment we were living with that song in the background, a song that, for some unknown reasons, never got the necessary attention from the music press it deserved, back then.
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One of the most common questions recurring often when analysing the songbook of an artist or of a band, it's the one related to the building of an album's setlist and the decision related to choose some tracks instead of others ending up left out, maybe because the latters were considered unsuited to the idea behind the making of the album in question.
A fan or the music press get to know about those aforementioned tunes only when an artist decides to release a collection of b-sides or outtakes, frequently revealing some hidden gems that, inexplicably, never found space on an official studio album release.
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If there is an artist within the Blues-Rock industry in the United States able to be completely honest and truthful to himself, his music and to all his thousands of fans worldwide, that artist is most certainly the American Blues-Rock Titan, Guitar Supremo and singer-songwriter Walter Trout.
Throughout his whole career, might that have been as a solo artist or with Canned Heat or Bluesbreakers, there has always been something completely genuine and real about Trout’s music, no matter whether that was expressed through a guitar solo or the American artist's powerful vocal range, even in what sometimes Trout Himself calls "The Wild Days", referring to a time of his career where this prodigious Guitar Titan was still very successful but not exactly living a very morigerate life.
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It's becoming increasingly more important, especially in a society that is somehow not valuing music with the right amount of appreciation that this art form deserves, to remember, celebrate and cherish influential artists that have heavily contributed to the evolution of music throughout the last century.
Thankfully, some of said music artists are still with us, like the American composer Terry Riley, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday on 24th June and what better way to celebrate such an important life landmark than releasing a boxset called The Columbia Recordings, containing the 4 albums released through Columbia Masterworks from 1968 and 1980, a time of the world when the growth of music was at its healthiest state, thanks also to the phenomenal, constantly transformative and forward-thinking contribution provided by Riley himself.
