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Chicano Music has gone through a lot of transformations and highs and lows, in the last half a century, sometimes in a good way, some other time not really up to the standards that the genre's Kingpin, Lalo Guerrero, reached in the late 40's.
It is therefore refreshing that a record that sticks to the traditions and the foundations of Chicano Music, with a little contemporary twist, like Johnny & Jaalene sees the light of the day right now, in 2018.
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One of the secrets behind the success of a great album is the ability to keep the sound fresh and vibrant throughout the record, at the same time entertaining the listeners and jiggling different musical layers that magically fits inside one another, like a perfectly shaped sonic Matrioska.
This is something that the Leicester-born and London-based troubadour Jack J Hutchinson and his band of brothers Boom Boom Brotherhood fully manage to achieve in their debut album called Set Your Heart For The Sun.
Read more: Jack J Hutchinson's Boom Boom Brotherhood - Set Your Heart For The Sun
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There is an old adagio, in the music world, which states that very often, great records come out from the pen of a songwriter in the artist’s most dark and struggling moments, moments that dig, evidently, very deeply into the artist’s soul, pushing out a relentless outpouring of emotions and inspired songwriting episodes.
Well, that may be true, but it may be also true that when said artists emerge victorious from these challenging personal moments, the creativity and the inspiration can still flow freely and highly, meaning that fundamentally, no matter at what stage one can be in life, if you are predisposed with natural talent, you will always be able to write inspired music material.
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Whenever our website comes across to one of those very rare and special records to be reviewed, featuring two masters of Blues-Rock and Blues respectively, like Guitar Maestro and singer-songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Harmonica Supremo and singer-songwriter Bobby Rush who, in their own rights, are considered undisputed masters of said genres, the trepidation and the excitement of getting to hear and write about such a special record goes two notches up, given the worldwide stature of the two American artists.
When the multi-Grammy Awards winner Bobby Rush and Grammy-nominated and multi-Billboard Music Awards winner Kenny Wayne Shepherd met back few years ago, the two artists clicked immediately, artistically speaking, despite the considerable age difference (Rush is 91, while Shepherd will be 48 later this year), because they felt they were speaking an identical music language.
Read more: Young Fashioned Ways - Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd
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Although it may sound like a past-due cliché thing to say and contrary to popular belief, in these days and age, Music carries still that strength and power strong enough to create a semblance of unity, within the disconnected society we are living in.
A perfect example of the aforementioned statement comes from pianist, singer/songwriter and composer Macha Gharibian, somebody able to create, through Gharibian's brand new album called Phenomenal Women, not only a sonic bridge between cultures and countries (the artist sings in 5 different languages, English, French, Portuguese, Armenian and Arabic) but also to spread a strong feminist shout about abuses, sexism and inequality that women around the world have to live on their own skin every day.
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It's never an easy task, for any musician, to be able to merge diverse music genres in an almost faultless style, especially when playing in a free-form way.
Although no music artist would ever doubt their own skills and talent, for the Hungarian drummer Marton Juhasz must have been a special, pleasant surprise what he was able to accomplish through the release of Juhasz brand new record, called Metropolis.
