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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
In a world where most days we wake up with news about various dooms and glooms, wars, atrocities and what have you, it is refreshing and uplifting to find, from time to time, some stories about resurgence, resilience and desire to reconnect with what matters the most in our lives.
One of those stories concerns a worldwide much loved and respected American Blues/Rock guitarists and singer/songwriters, Ryan McGarvey who, for quite some time, had not released a studio album (his last one was the 2018 one called Heavy Hearted, one of the best in McGarvey's career to date) and not toured live for a number for years too.
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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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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
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.
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Longevity and consistency are words that are gradually disappearing, within the music business, even with some of the biggest names in contemporary music, who often sacrifice the quality of their material to the demands of record labels and fans, compromising, in this way, their own artistry and the quality of their material.
Fortunately for us music lovers, though, there are still artists out there like the American Avant-Garde Rock band They Might Be Giants that are not yet prepared to throw in the towel and surrender to commercialism, not even after 40 years in the business and having released, a few weeks ago, their 24th studio album, called The World Is To Dig.
