Terry Riley - The Columbia Recordings
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
It's becoming increasingly more important, especially in a society that is somehow not valuing music with the right amount of appreciation that this art form deserves, to remember, celebrate and cherish influential artists that have heavily contributed to the evolution of music throughout the last century.
Thankfully, some of said music artists are still with us, like the American composer Terry Riley, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday on 24th June and what better way to celebrate such an important life landmark than releasing a boxset called The Columbia Recordings, containing the 4 albums released through Columbia Masterworks from 1968 and 1980, a time of the world when the growth of music was at its healthiest state, thanks also to the phenomenal, constantly transformative and forward-thinking contribution provided by Riley himself.
Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet - El Muki
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
There are not, as far as our website is aware of, art forms able to fuse cultural elements of different countries and melt them together in a very harmonic fashion as much as music does.
Furthermore, to have the capacity, the skills and the vision to unite sounds with tradition and local folklore in style without being obvious or, in any way disrespectful by altering said elements in any shape or form, it's a massive achievement and, in that respect, the Peruvian Jazz artist Gabriel Alegría completely fulfilled this challenging artistic brief by putting together a project called Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, whose musical talent and sense of sonic authenticity has (and still is) been the real core of this extraordinary collective for the last 20 years.
Terry Hanck - Grease To Gravy
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
There's too many people out there that try very hard to change a genre like the Blues, by trying to repackaging and reselling it to the masses under forms that, far too often, have got nothing to do with the Blues.
For all those fans that were born in the last couple of decades, to get to know at least the basics of the Blues means scouring old records of Pioneers of the genre, like the late greats Muddy Waters, B.B.King or Howlin' Wolf, just to mention a few, because sadly, we don't have a lot of true Traditional Blues artists still with us, in 2025.
