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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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For a considerable number of years, now, Denmark and, overall, the Nordic part of Europe, has been injecting the world of Jazz music with hugely talented artists, most of them now widely known and appreciated in many parts of the world too.
Given the constant flourishing of a so much vibrant scene, the talented young Lithuanian Jazz vocalist Dalia Valančiūtė did not have to think twice, back a few years ago, to consider moving from her country of origin to Denmark, a place that would potentially open to her so many more possibilities and where the Lithuanian singer could fulfil her dreams and express herself at the very best.
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The name of Nordic composer, pianist, keyboardist and film scorer Christian Balvig has been for quite some time a big buzz, within not only a classical music field, but also a more pop and rock orientated too, given his recent collaborations with Danish collectives like Efterklang, When Saints Go Machine or Mew, just to mention some of the bands Balvig has been working with.
Fresh from scoring a Danish TV series called Cry Wolf (Ulven Kommer), broadcasted in more than 30 countries worldwide, plus a short movie called Eternal Father, shortlisted for the 2025 Oscar ceremony, Balvig has found himself very much inspired and evidently at ease, lately, to work on pieces that would still have a strong cinematic appeal in his music, given the success of the aforementioned soundtracks that he scored in the recent past.
Read more: Christian Balvig & Ensemble Hermes - Find And You Will Seek
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How many times so many of us have gone through life without being able to express our true feelings or talking about painful triggers that brought us down in a dark place of our minds and souls for years? Our guess is "millions of us", but we were always too afraid to admit it and face our internal demons, so we just kept on hiding, by saying to people "Nah, I'm fine".
Thankfully though, there are still out there those that are able to say to themselves "enough" to those torturing feeling and find the platform to outpour their negative karma, often through an artistic vehicle, like music.
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Traditionally, the Blues, as a music genre, gets immediately identified with United States, the homeland, since more than a hundred years, of a style that has heavily influenced the roots of many other genres, Rock'N'Roll included.
Although the birthplace of Blues has never been in discussion, many more world countries have embraced, through the decades, the spirit and the philosophy of Blues, often with outstanding results.
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From time to time, our website receives records to review that emanate a feel-good feeling about them, a feeling that transcends one's passion for a specific genre, because it encircles completely the definition of Music, intended in its most complete sense of the word.
The album in question is called, rather aptly, It’s All About Love, released from the Canadian collective Wild Blue Herons, a project led by musical partners-in-crime, as they are in life, Bill Sample and Darlene Cooper.
