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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.
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A live concert should always be a celebration in many ways. A celebration for the crowd, who pays good money to go and see a live performance and a celebration for an artist or for a collective themselves, not intended as a self-celebration of their success but instead, a celebration of joy and love for music at 360 degrees spent together with their devoted fans.
The latter is exactly the kind of philosophy that such a charismatic collective like London based four-piece The Cinelli Brothers possesses and apply to their legendary live performances each night.
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It happens more and more frequently, within the music industry, that many bands that have not recorded a studio album for a while tend to buy their time by releasing a live record in the interim, in the aim to keep the fans still interested in said band.
Very often, though, because of a disinterest in investing money and time curing the level of the overall quality of the finished live product, those bands end up sadly delivering a very lacklustre record, risking, as a consequence, also to lose some of their fans along the way.
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The guitar is a marvellous instrument. No matter whether an artist is playing either an acoustic guitar or an electric one, if said artist is gifted enough, then the guitar will be able to transport the imagination of the listener to any place in the world that may look unreachable to us, thanks to the inner power of that guitar playing.
Somebody that knows very well how to create the aforementioned sensations through his remarkable talent, as a guitar player, is the Italian Virtuoso Matteo Mancuso, an artist whose career, especially in the last three years, has reached already some impressive peaks of appreciations from media, fans and fellow artists too.
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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.
