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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.
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There is an old adagio, in the music world, which states that very often, great records come out from the pen of a songwriter in the artist’s most dark and struggling moments, moments that dig, evidently, very deeply into the artist’s soul, pushing out a relentless outpouring of emotions and inspired songwriting episodes.
Well, that may be true, but it may be also true that when said artists emerge victorious from these challenging personal moments, the creativity and the inspiration can still flow freely and highly, meaning that fundamentally, no matter at what stage one can be in life, if you are predisposed with natural talent, you will always be able to write inspired music material.
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Whenever our website comes across to one of those very rare and special records to be reviewed, featuring two masters of Blues-Rock and Blues respectively, like Guitar Maestro and singer-songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Harmonica Supremo and singer-songwriter Bobby Rush who, in their own rights, are considered undisputed masters of said genres, the trepidation and the excitement of getting to hear and write about such a special record goes two notches up, given the worldwide stature of the two American artists.
When the multi-Grammy Awards winner Bobby Rush and Grammy-nominated and multi-Billboard Music Awards winner Kenny Wayne Shepherd met back few years ago, the two artists clicked immediately, artistically speaking, despite the considerable age difference (Rush is 91, while Shepherd will be 48 later this year), because they felt they were speaking an identical music language.
Read more: Young Fashioned Ways - Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd
