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Even in the times we are living in, where music perhaps is not perceived any longer as an inspiring and a unifying factor for people all over the world like he might have been for the last half a century, there is still the space for miracles, where someone that was effectively homeless, up until to few years ago, it's now tranformed his life, being on the verge to become a global music star.
The story of D'Kieran Harrell, better known as D.K. Harrell, one of the biggest rising stars of Blues and Soul, is quite a singular one, one of those where dreams can still become reality, if you believe hard enough in yourself.
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Bluebird Reviews thinks that it would be fair to say that there are not many doubts that, in every chart citing the 10 best Rock, Blues/Rock and Hard-Rock guitarists in the world of the last half a century, the name of the late great Northern-Irish Guitar Maestro Gary Moore would be appearing every time.
An artist that has performed a very wide range of music throughout his career, going from Hard-Rock, Blues/Rock, Metal and even Jazz, Moore has been and still is to these days one of the major inspirations for young (and well famous fellow artists too) musicians willing to learn the craft of such a legendary and inspiring music talents that left us too soon, sadly, when Moore was only 58.
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It's refreshing to hear, especially in the modern music business, how many risks an artist is prepared to take, especially when said artists are putting their reputation on the line. But then again, where it's true enough that investing on a project where the artist in question is ready to give full space for improvisation to their fellow musicians playing on the record can be seen as a bit risky, it's also true that by giving that space for creativity to those musicians, they will feel themselves trusted enough to help creating a body of work for the artist in question that will push themselves to give the best of their musicianship.
For those that have been fortunate enough to hear a Free-Form Jazz album of the caliber of Sou Makuri, by the Scandinavia-based quintet Shinken Shobu, they will be perhaps inclined to share our website's feeling, about this precious and delightful album, given its high quality content.
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Italian version
Ci sono dei dischi speciali che nascono per caso e forse, anche grazie a segrete dinamiche celesti. Cio' che rende detti dischi ancora piu' speciali avviene quando due artisti, appartenenti a due diversi macrocosmi musicali, riescono a sposare i loro rispettivi stili, facendoli confluire in un contesto comune dove possono applicare sperimentazioni musicali che unificano due mondi musicali diversi, facendoli diventare un tutt'uno.
Quale sia stata la molla che ha spinto a collaborare due celebrati artisti come il bassista, multi-strumentalista, produttore e compositore di colonne sonore cinematografiche italiano Gianni Maroccolo e il chitarrista australiano dei Bad Seeds, nonche' cantante, autore e frontman del gruppo Post-Punk The Wreckery, Hugo Race, a scrivere e registrare un disco in combutta chiamato The Vigil, non ci e' dato saperlo ma chiunque dei due avesse proposto questa collaborazione musicale, ci aveva visto davvero lungo sin dall'inizio.
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It's rather refreshing, in the contemporary music establishment, to hear a live recording of artists where the music takes complete and solely centre stage and it's not contaminated by screams, singalong and applauses of crowds halfway of a performance, leaving said crowds instead to soak in the atmosphere, creativity and extemporaneity that is generated by that magic called music.
That magic is something that our website was able to capture on From Bach To Ellington - Live, a sumptuous live album by British saxophonist Andy Sheppard and Swiss pianist and composer Michael Arbenz, two highly esteemed authorities in the current Jazz scene.
Read more: Michael Arbenz Meets Andy Sheppard - From Bach To Ellington - Live
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In the music scene, it may take some time to gestate a record that defines a solo artist or a band's philosophy, the ultimate labour of love, that complete masterpiece able to fit perfectly the often intricated and hard to achieve lyrical and sonic mosaic that defines an exceptional record.
In many ways, this is what, in our website opinion, happened to the Italian Synth-Rock and New Wave collective called Zephiro through their latest album called Baikonur, an exceptional collection of songs that has the unique power of combining uplifting melodies with a fascinating, although occasionally erratic songwriting style, but still with excellent results.
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The story of American singer-songwriter and pianist John McAndrew is one of those that reminds you of an imaginary ship that was on the brink to sink in a sea storm but found refuge, miraculously, in a sheltered windless bay at the very last minute.
McAndrew's storm, in that respect, has been blowing wildly for a very ample chunk of the artist's life on a personal level, where heavy drinking issues had almost brought to the ground the American singer-songwriter's health.
