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Walter Trout - Live At Islington Assembly Hall, London (UK), May 21st 2023

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 22, 2023

If there's one thing in life you can't fake, it's true love. For life, for the people you care the most and in the case of a musician, for the art of making and playing music.

It is precisely that same kind of love that has been driving for over half a century a great artist like the American guitarist and singer/songwriter Walter Trout to give all of himself in composing, playing and singing that Blues and Rock music genres that he has been playing for more than half a century, treading stages around the world with a passion, tenacity, determination and class almost impossible to match, in the contemporary world music scene.

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Chris Duarte - Ain't Giving Up

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 14, 2023

One of the greatest gifts that an artform like Music in its entirety possesses, is that of allowing any listener to romanticize about it, by associating to the power of Music a moment in time in their lives that has a personal meaning. Naturally, a different one to everybody. But whatever said meaning is for any of us, there is something about the intensity of music, any music, no matter the genre. It might be a question of arrangement, uplifting bridges and choruses, the strength and passion emerging from vocal deliveries, fierce guitar solos or an artist's very personal songwriting that resonates with something happening in our personal lives at certain stages.


When it comes to intensity and its application to music, very few artists are able to express their devotion and unconditional dedication to it, that includes also a certain amount of physicality, more than the Texas-born Blues/Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Chris Duarte, somebody that "feels" music through his own skin, even at the cost to have his fingers bleeding on stage, when he plays guitar, for the strength and athleticism that Duarte puts into his guitar playing.

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A Journey Of Re-Discovering - In Conversation With Dan Patlansky

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: May 08, 2023

It's always a great privilege, for our website, to be able to talk to some inspiring artists coming from all around the world, showcasing not only their own musical talent at any possible level but also their life stories.

One of those highly gifted artists is, most certainly, South-African Blues/Rock guitarists and singer/songwriter Dan Patlansky, somebody that has always loved to tinge his well-crafted songs with snippets of personal life experiences through his tried-and-true playing style that has made Patlansky one of the most acclaimed artists of the genre in many different parts of the world.

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