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One of the most challenging aspects for a Blues or Blues/Rock artist, in our website's opinion, it is to keep on being true to oneself, year after year and album after album, by not necessarily having to repeat themselves, in order to be successful but instead, progressing in their musical journeys without sounding repetitive and one-dimensional.
Perhaps there might not be a recipe or a specific path to be followed, when it comes to maintain one's musical integrity and, in that respect, instinctive certainly plays a vital role, for an artist.
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How incredibly refreshing it is, given the fast pace and outrageously chaotic world in which we are living, to have a chart-topping Electronic Music Pioneer like the American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Moby taking the time to take a step back from his bombastic, high tempo trademark sound and invite instead people to slow down, in our everyday life through his brand new album.
The album in question is called Future Quiet and, as the title suggests, it is an open invitation from Moby to the world to take time for ourselves, to reflect on our priorities and to find emotional refuge into one of the most powerful art form existing, which is music.
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As often history taught to all of us, music is an art form that, through the centuries, was and it's still designed to these days to inspire creativity and to carry within either high energy or calming feelings to human beings.
Moreover, music is the only art capable to distill positive energy through sounds, rather than visually, generating memories that may linger into our brains for short outbursts or even for one's whole lifetime.
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Throughout the last half a century, there have been many Jazz artists worldwide that have revered and paid musical tributes to one of the giants of the genre, the great American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk.
Some of said tributes have been, at times, very respectful of Monk's enormous music catalogue, some other times more imaginative and creative, two aspects that Thelonious Monk would have certainly loved, given Monk's innate tendency to go totally free-form in his playing style, on lots of the pieces the American Maestro composed in his exceptional career.
Read more: Monk & More - Richard Andersson With Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik & Kasper Tom
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It happens to many music artists to go back to their roots, after a certain amount of time and once their careers have reached the highest reachable artistic pinnacle.
The same can be said for the American Blues-Rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Tinsley Ellis, a well-known and internnationally well respected artist that, for more than 4 decades, has impressed and very much still impresses to these days thousands of lovers of the genre, thanks also to his razor-sharp ability in Ellis' guitar playing style and for his deep and powerful vocal delivery.
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For the last two decades, the fame and reputation of the American Funk/Jazz/Rock Guitar Maestro, songwriter, producer and podcaster Cory Wong has increased exponentially, thanks not only to the undisputable multifaceted talent of the 40-years-old's artistry and ability, but also to his well-known association with bands like Vulfpeck or Dave Matthews Band, amongst other, with whom Wong has worked with on numerous occasions.
Whilst running his solo career and running at the same time a remarkable instrumental side project called The Fearless Flyer, Wong finally managed to find the time to get back to studio and to work on the follow-up of his successful 2024 solo album called Starship Syncopation, a record that was unanimously received by the worldwide music press as a superb contemporary display of the finest quality of Jazz, Funk and Fusion.
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It's no secret that the American eclectic collective They Might Be Giants have followed their own path without having to compromise with anything and anybody, throughout their longstanding career, as they do still in these days. It would be also a bit unfair to call the band only as an Alternative Rock one, because their music is much more than that.
Since their early days in the 80's as a collective, TMBG, a.k.a. John Flansburgh and John Linnell, have always loved to create music pastiches that take inspiration from the spur of the moment, rather than planning ahead records that could be of a conceptual nature or a more pidgeonholed one, by privileging instead what it spoke to them instinctively, throughout all the different decades that Linnell and Flansburgh have been making music together.
