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Music is one of those wonderful art forms that, from time to time, needs freshing up a little through talented newcomers that keep said art always interesting but, by the same token, it also needs artists that create a legacy, a root, where the newcomers can take inspiration from and eventually apply their own craft to then make a name for themselves.
One of those legendary bands that most certainly created a strong musical legacy, it is the American Blues and Rock collective Canned Heat, a band that has kept the tradition of late 60's Rock And Roll and Blues constantly at the highest level, despite several changes of personnel the band had to go through, as the years went by, with the sole exception of the band's longest serving member, drummer Fito De La Parra.
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There is no reason why music needs to be at all costs homogenic and follow a sole sonic flow, on any record, although often some artists prefer not to digress on a style that might have made their commercial fortunes, just to ensure not to lose either fans or record revenues.
There are, rather fortunately though, other artists that like to follow their instincts, compose and play music based on flows of spontaneity which, in our website’s opinion, always pays off, because it reveals the true soul of an artists unhidden by any calculated plan.
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One of the most interesting and encouraging growth in the history and tradition of Italian music of the last four decades comes, year after year, from an increasing amount of artists expressing their love for their own local roots, not only through lyrics narrating ordinary tales of daily lives of the past and present but also by singing in the dialect of their own regions, as a way to preserve their multi-centenary heritage from a modern society that, too often, has got the tendency to nullify and erase everything that doesn't fit the suffocating rhythms that life imposes on all of us every day.
To be perfectly honest, it doesn't take that much to fall in love at first glance to a record like La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis (The Great Run Towards Lupionòpolis) from Peppe Voltarelli, one of the most exciting Italian singer/songwriters even if you may not understand a word neither of Italian language nor of Calabria's (Italian Southern Region) local dialect.
Read more: Peppe Voltarelli - La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis
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It gets rather difficult, in the contemporary music scene, to find an artist with a career span of 50-plus years and 30 albums recorded as a solo artist, still willing to work as hard as the legendary Blues/Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Walter Trout does on each and every record.
Unanimously considered by the music press and Trout's fellow colleague artists as one of the most gifted and talented torchbearers of Blues/Rock of this generation, there is quite nobody like the American artist, in this genre, able to deliver bodies of work of such imperious emotional intensity and enormous creative form, just as Trout has done again on his brand new album, called Broken.
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For who truly loves music, it's always a joy to see new inspired musical projects created by artists that perhaps, in the last three decades, have worked mostly behind the scenes in many bands, often being the real bone machine of said bands and now getting together creating something that sums their years of experiences in the business, allowing them, at the same time, also to apply their own personal spin and vision on the way they feel and see music in 2024.
Today Was Yesterday is one of those fine projects, born from the will of two multi-instrumentalists like singer/songwriter, bassist, guitarist, pianist and programmer Angelo Barbera and powerhouse drummer, percussionist and programmer Ty Dennis, with the purpose to cross over the boundaries of what is currently considered contemporary Progressive Rock, by expanding its overall sound through the application of layers of Funk, New-Age and Synth-Wave added to what is seen as the standard sound structure of Prog-Rock, as a genre.
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It's so important to have something meaningful to say, in the current music industry, where often the urgency of "having" to release a new album to make the fans happy as fast as possible, it may result as a counterproductive kind of a move, for an artist.
JJ Grey & Mofro have undoubtedly not a problem with that, because they know that quality always pays dividends, no matter when they decide to make another album. Although it might have taken almost a decade, for the Florida-based collective, to release a new record of a certain high standard that could aptly follow the magnitude of a record like their 2015 Ol' Glory, that time has not been wasted in vain at all by the JJ Grey & Mofro, given the excellent outcome.
