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Paolo Tarsi - Unnatural Self

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 30, 2024

Italy is a country that, historically, has always had a profound relation with popular music. Through the decades, Italian music has been often exported worldwide very successfully and even translated and performed by international superstars like Sinatra, Dean Martin and many more.

Naturally, the traditional approach to writing and composing songs has moved on as the years went by, as one would expect, igniting a natural compositional and sonic evolution that has made possible that Italian musical artistry is still and largely worldwidely appreciated, to these days, not only into popular music but also in genres like Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical and the list goes on and on.

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Judith Hill - Letters From A Black Widow

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 16, 2024

Throughout the last two decades of music, it has been very hard to find virtually anybody capable of inheriting the lessons of the great American Black Music songbook in its entirety quite as much as the singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner Judith Hill has.

With a highly impressive career span that has seen Hill collaborating with some of the greatest American artists of the last century and releasing records that have been unanimously considered as vocal and musical masterpieces, such as her 2015's debut called Back In Time and the 2021's Baby, I'm Hollywood!, Judith Hill has always excelled among the artist's contemporary peers because of Hill's unique hybrid soundscape and her undisputable vocal excellence.

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The Cinelli Brothers - Almost Exactly...

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 12, 2024

For those who love music in its entirety, there must be no better feeling than hearing an artist or a band progressing artistically with each passing record. So often, in order to guarantee "record revenues", some of said artists prefer not to choose to push too far their music boundaries, feeling just content to deliver another record to their fans that would match their fanbases' expectations, sacrificing, in this way, inspiration, immediacy and artistic growth.

Rather fortunately though, there are also other type of musicians who love to move forward instead and see their music as a starting point for a journey where music become the locomotive of an invisible train, able to bring them back in time and then back home again, where their signature sound then becomes organically amalgamated with the rhythms and vibes they absorbed during their journey and the experiences they forged, with the end result being a very honest, truly representative and stylistically exciting new expressive vehicle.

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Canned Heat - Finyl Vinyl

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 02, 2024

Music is one of those wonderful art forms that, from time to time, needs freshing up a little through talented newcomers that keep said art always interesting but, by the same token, it also needs artists that create a legacy, a root, where the newcomers can take inspiration from and eventually apply their own craft to then make a name for themselves.

One of those legendary bands that most certainly created a strong musical legacy, it is the American Blues and Rock collective Canned Heat, a band that has kept the tradition of late 60's Rock And Roll and Blues constantly at the highest level, despite several changes of personnel the band had to go through, as the years went by, with the sole exception of the band's longest serving member, drummer Fito De La Parra. 

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Quadro Nuevo - Happy Deluxe

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: April 15, 2024

There is no reason why music needs to be at all costs homogenic and follow a sole sonic flow, on any record, although often some artists prefer not to digress on a style that might have made their commercial fortunes, just to ensure not to lose either fans or record revenues.

There are, rather fortunately though, other artists that like to follow their instincts, compose and play music based on flows of spontaneity which, in our website’s opinion, always pays off, because it reveals the true soul of an artists unhidden by any calculated plan.

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Cedric Burnside - Hill Country Love

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: April 13, 2024
Throughout the last 2-3 decades of music, there have been very few artists able to carry the real values of a genre like Blues as well as Tennessee-born multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Cedric Burnside.
 
The American artist, who was raised in the area of Holly Springs in Mississippi and started to tour at the tender age of 13 as a drummer with his grandfather R.L. Burnside, a true giant of Mississippi Hill Country Blues, has constantly delivered, over his whole career to date, records of strong musical depth, inspiration and intensity, carrying, at the same time, that unmistakable sound that his grandfather has so successfully carried on playing for decades and that now Cedric Burnside has amply mastered by himself, through his own hard graft and undisputable talent.
 

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Peppe Voltarelli - La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: March 21, 2024

One of the most interesting and encouraging growth in the history and tradition of Italian music of the last four decades comes, year after year, from an increasing amount of artists expressing their love for their own local roots, not only through lyrics narrating ordinary tales of daily lives of the past and present but also by singing in the dialect of their own regions, as a way to preserve their multi-centenary heritage from a modern society that, too often, has got the tendency to nullify and erase everything that doesn't fit the suffocating rhythms that life imposes on all of us every day.

To be perfectly honest, it doesn't take that much to fall in love at first glance to a record like La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis (The Great Run Towards Lupionòpolis) from Peppe Voltarelli, one of the most exciting Italian singer/songwriters even if you may not understand a word neither of Italian language nor of Calabria's (Italian Southern Region) local dialect.

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  1. Walter Trout - Broken
  2. Today Was Yesterday - Today Was Yesterday
  3. JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee
  4. Kalaha - Nord Havn
  5. Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages - Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages

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