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There is no doubt at all that 2023 has seen, yet again, the release of some outstanding records, records where there have been some remarkable statements of artistry at 360 degrees, an aspect that, rather sadly and in the contemporary music climate, doesn't often get necessarily (and rather unfairly) recognized with the deserved amount of albums sold, either online or in stores.
One of those outstanding albums, released just few weeks ago, is the brand new record of the Italian Blues/Rock band Bud Spencer Blues Explosion (often identified with the acronym BSBE) called Next Big Niente, an album that sees band members Adriano Viterbini (guitars and vocals) and Cesare Petulicchio (drums) moving into completely different sonic directions, more specifically, towards a highly interesting avant-garde, sonic pastiche that tinkers with Desert Blues, Electronica, 70's Disco, Rock, Folk and Trip-Hop, resulting in a rather entertaining melting pot where music becomes fragmented, melodic and distorted at the same times, perhaps with the purpose to consciously detach themselves from the common perception of what music may mean for many, in these days and age.
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Throughout the whole career of the American Blues/Rock Guitar Supremo and singer/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd, this must be the very first time that the Louisiana-born artist has left a stop gap time of 4 years between his last studio album and his brand new one.
Obviously, there were very justified reasons behind this time gap. Given the 2020's worldwide pandemic that forced to immobilise live performances to any musician, it was very much understandable that Shepherd and his band would instead release a live album, on the back of the success of the tour that followed the release of the 2019's The Traveler album, perhaps one of the very best of Shepherd's remarkable career to date. Adding to all this the fact that the 25th anniversary of the release of Trouble Is.., Shepherd's most successful record to date was due back in 2022, it makes complete sense that Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his band would release a new studio record just this year.
Read more: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol.1
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Contemporary Jazz, especially in the last ten years, has seen numerous exciting artists worldwide bringing to "the game" fresh ideas and hugely entertaining new sonic combustions, enriching and expanding, in this way, the definition of Contemporary Jazz to a more cosmopolitan level.
A collective that has certainly made a solid contribution to the growth of Contemporary Jazz, since their 2013's debut album Das Taxibat, is the Swedish group called Daniel Karlsson Trio, a hugely talented ensemble of musicians whose artistic path has been followed closely by our website, through the last few years and that includes the band leader Daniel Karlsson on piano, Fredrik Rundqvist on drums and Christian Spering on double bass.
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It's perhaps every artist's dream to release a record that takes fans on a journey, because often, in the contemporary music scene, sounds and lyrics seem to be unable to engage enough those listeners hoping to find themselves emotionally involved in a musical body of work.
The latter, rather fortunately, doesn't seem to apply to Japanese Pianist and Composer Naoko Sakata, an artist that our website has being following since Day One of her remarkable career, an artist that has that unique talent of transporting effortlessly the listener in her own personal world through the intensity, class and overwhelming passion that transpires every time out of Sakata's sublime improvisational compositions.
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Ascoltare un disco nuovo di un autentico pioniere, negli anni '80, del Synth-Pop italiano come Renato Abate, in arte Garbo, e' sempre una piacevolissima carezza nell'anima.
Un artista la cui visione in musica, dopo 40 e piu' anni nell'olimpo musicale italiano, non e' mai stata circoscritta da imposizioni discografiche o dettata dall'esigenza di dover giocoforza aderire ad un determinato filone musicale, pur di accontentare numerose migliaia di fans, la direzione sonora di Garbo e' sempre stata ed e' ancora fermamente protesa in avanti, con la voglia ancora forte di sperimentare con la musica, in modo che essa diventi traduttrice fedele della crescita musicale e personale di questo raffinato cantautore.
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Labours of love often don't get built in a short amount of time but, due to their magnitude and vision, they may sometimes take years, before they materialize.
This, in short, it is a little backstory behind the making on one of the most phenomenal retrospective albums that our website has come across for a very long time, concerning one of the most iconic Rock bands of all the time, which included Eric Clapton on vocals and guitars, Jack Bruce on bass guitar and vocals and Ginger Baker on drums. Naturally, we are talking about Cream.
Read more: Various Artists - Heavenly Cream: An Acoustic Tribute To Cream
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Moving forward has always been one of the biggest dilemmas for many music artists, especially in recent years That slight uncertainty and reticence on trying and doing different things, not because of lack of inner talent, but maybe just for the fear of losing fans, when trying to move towards different sonic tangents.
Thankfully, there are also many artists out there that love to challenge themselves, expanding their artform to new musical alleyways, unafraid of bringing their music and their vision to alternative sonic routes, where their core expression is clearly still there, but pushed now to new limits, by amalgamating it with different music genres.
