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One of the most liberating feelings, for a music artist, it must surely arrive when you are able to express yourself without being labeled to a genre or a style of music, something not easy to achieve, in the contemporary music industry for virtually anybody, especially considering record labels' contractual strings and obligations to fans that make challenging, for any musical project, to be able to go free-form and let the music flow without constrictions.
There are, though and rather fortunately, some artists or projects that refuse to adhere to genre-related clichés. One of these projects is called Kalaha, a collective made by Danish musicians that, since 2013, have carried in their body of work the idea that music can travel on different wave lengths without losing its identity, something that transpires very clearly and rather beautifully in their new album, called Nord Havn.
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It's rather refreshing to see somebody that has heavily contributed, through his unmistakable guitar playing, the Rock music of the 70's being still inspired by love for music in its globality, letting loose and thoroughly enjoying himself still in these days and age.
The Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger doesn't need any particular introduction at all, not even to those that have not familiar to Rock'N'Roll for very long. His guitar sound has permeated not only the music of a seminal band like The Doors but the whole of a decade of music and beyond even as a solo artist, making Krieger being recognised as one of the 100 most loved and influential guitarists of all time by a prestigious magazine like Rolling Stone.
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For several years now, the British Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Jack J Hutchinson has been identified by the UK Music press as one of the hottest and most inspired UK Rock artists of the last decade.
True to be told, Bluebird Reviews had spotted already ample signals of Hutchinson's artistic talent since a while, now, especially through some of the British artist's past records that our website was honoured to review, such as the 2017's Paint No Fiction and 2019's Who Feeds The Wolf?, where our website had clearly seen seeds of the musical growth of the guitarist and singer/songwriter, moving from a more Glam and Acid-Rock style to a more aggressive one, verging between 70's Psychedelia and stadium Hard-Rock style.
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In a society like the one where we are living in, where often music gets created and consumed too much in a hurry and disposed with equal velocity, it is incredibly heartwarming to still be able to find someone able to connect with music at 360 degrees, through building her own instrument herself and later becoming one body and one soul with it, where no one is able to spot where one ends and the other begins.
This is the case of the Denmark-based harpist and singer/songwriter Aurelia, who has just released her debut album called Rays Of Light, a record of extraordinary beauty and great mysticism, an album where the young artist was able to release her love for people, nature and life in general in such effortless style, revealing enormous talent in all aspect of Aurelia's artistry.
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Scandinavia has constantly proven, through the years, to be one of the leading countries in Europe for Jazz artists, artists able to embrace the sounds and the styles of the Masters of the genre and transporting them in a more modern dimension, in a space where they are free to explore their own musicianship and still being able to homage their music heroes.
One of those many creative and very talented artists, it is the Danish saxophonist Jeppe Zacho, someone that loves to define his playing style, as Zacho also highlighted in the liner notes of his debut album just released and called Introducing Jeppe Zacho, as "Modern Jazz In The Old Fashioned Way".
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There is hope, in the future of music and as an art form, especially when there are record labels willing to invest on albums of a certain quality that, either for budgetarian reasons or for contractual ones, they would never see the light of the day otherwise.
It is therefore a true blessing that the American label Quarto Valley Records has strongly believed on a Blues and Rock record that celebrates the trademark sound of such a pivotal state for American Music like Texas, an album that was initially recorded back in 2009 and, rather incomprehensibly, no record label had decided to pick up and release, up until now.
