My Time With Garson - In Conversation With Pianist And Composer Danny Holt
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
The year 2022 has been a year of some truly fabulous music releases and our website had the privilege to cover and review the new record of one of the most talented and highly versatile pianists and composers in the contemporary American music scene, Danny Holt. The album, called Piano Music Of Mike Garson, as the title suggests, is a record that pays homage to one of the greatest pianists of the last half a century, somebody that has truly revolutionized, either through his solo albums or by collaborating with the cream of the music industry, the history of contemporary Avant-Garde Jazz, Rock and even Pop music.
Piano Music Of Mike Garson is the very first album ever released dedicated to Mike Garson's solo career and his compositions, a record containing a selection of some of Garson's thousands of pieces written and recorded in 50-plus years of Garson's illustrious career, carefully chosen by Holt and performed at an extremely high level of musicianship and remarkable precision and attention to details.
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Lance Lopez - Trouble Is Good
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
There is often the impression that, in music business, it is hard to be able to rise again, emotionally and professionally, when different things hit hard a musician. There have been, sadly, too many examples, in music history, of artists falling off the wagon and going through a downward spiral with very little chance of getting back on their feet.
Thankfully, this is not the case of Louisiana-born singer/songwriter and Guitar Supremo Lance Lopez, who, in later years, has faced quite a few personal obstacles not very easy to overcome.
Ottodix - Arca
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For any music artist, to be able to write and record a full concept album, must surely be the highest goal possible to achieve, because such type of projects involve different art forms, not limited solely to songwriting, arrangements and vocals but it also extends to complex and extensive narrative of topics very close to the heart of the recording artist.
Somebody that has certainly achieved said goal, in our personal opinion, is the Italian singer/songwriter and visual artist Alessandro Zannier, better known with his stage name Ottodix, who has, through his eigth and brand new album called Arca, written a hugely intriguing project based on a hypothetical (but perhaps, not too much hypothetical) futuristic scenario about an ark (Arca, as the album title translates) shaped in a form of a tortoise, conceived to save the human race from cataclismic events that may destroy the world in decades to come.
