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Of all the music makers, producers and singer/songwriters in the world, one can surely stands out for his open-minded understanding and appreciation of music at 360 degrees applied to dance floors and club culture, is most certainly Richard Melville Hall, better known internationally as Moby.
 
With an illustrious career spanning across 3 decades, where the New York artist has recorded more than 20 albums, written 4 books and won numerous awards, Moby has returned, just towards the end of 2024, with a monumental release of a double album called Always Centered At Night - Remixes, which comprises 58 tracks recorded with different vocalists and with the usual clever and spectacularly beautiful approach to different sonic backgrounds that have made of Moby the exceptional artist he is and, very likely, will continue to be.
 

Read more: Moby - Always Centered At Night - Remixes

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How marvelous must be for some music artists to be able to get away of their sonic comfort zone and explore different musical alleyways still obtaining astounding results.
 
Whilst not many are able to achieve that artistic goal, it's rather refreshing to see affirmed artists such as Pianist and Keyboardist Bill Laurance and Composer, Multi-instrumentalist and Producer Michael League, better known as the highly successful ensemble called Snarky Puppy, exploring a more meditative music path, although still maintaining some elements of extravagance in their improvisations, for which Snarky Puppy, as a project, excels in.
 

Read more: Bill Laurence & Michael League - Keeping Company

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It is very refreshing to notice that European artists still provide, in a time of the world when sometimes music can be felt a bit flat and repetitive, so much vital sonic oxygenation and creativity in every field to the art of music.

Italy is one of those many countries in Europe that particularly keeps on delivering consistently a range of artists that excel on marrying lyrical brushes of geniality with visionary and instinctive musical arrangements with fabulous results, as our website has often discovered when reviewing bodies of work of Italian artists.

Read more: Cronauer - Life Stems Out Of Death

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Listening to each record of the American singer/songwriter Beth Hart, it feels like scrolling the pages of a personal diary every time.

Of course, for each passing year, the content of Hart's diary changes, reflecting life's experiences of any sort, may they be related to love or to struggles.

Read more: Beth Hart - You Still Got Me

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One of the most joyous feelings for some music writers like us, at Bluebird Reviews, is that of discovering, as the years go by, more and more artists willingly deciding not to contain their passion for their art-form, i.e. by pidgeonholing themselves in a sole sonic niche, but to push instead their improvisational skills and musical visions into highly interesting mash-up of genres.

That is pretty much the story of what happened with the brand new album of a hugely eclectic and talented collective coming from Denmark and called A Plane To Catch. 

Read more: A Plane To Catch - Soul Piece

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One of the biggest secrets that makes the art of music being so special, is that of associating sounds with memories, like a special moment lived somewhere in the world, perhaps watching a live concert, or spending a wonderful holiday somewhere with a partner and/or friend, or meeting new people, trying new flavours and the list goes on and on. 

That is pretty much what happened to the Taiwan-born Jazz pianist and composer Eric Pan a few years ago just before the pandemic, when coming back home from a colossal journey across four continents, while sampling the history, traditions and cultures of dozens of country visited throughout this mammouthian journey.

Read more: Eric Pan - Travel Poems

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For many years now, the sound of an instrument like the saxophone gets often linked to music genres like Jazz or maybe, at times, Fusion and occasionally, to Soul music too. It takes a proper Master of said instrument to be able to shift from a genre to another with convincing credibility and one of the very few artists able to make such effortlessly smooth transitions, thanks to his widely recognised talent and musical ability, it's the Las Vegas based singer/songwriter and Saxophonist Supremo Jimmy Carpenter, one of the very few artists in the contemporary music scene able to switch from Soul to Blues, R&B, Fusion and Funk maintaining always the same high level of musicianship on each passing record.
 

Read more: Jimmy Carpenter - Just Got Started

  1. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.2
  2. Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou - Arcs & Rivers
  3. Billy Price - Person Of Interest
  4. Gregg Allman Band - Uncle Sam’s
  5. The Airborne Toxic Event - Glory

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