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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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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.
