Monthly Archives: March 2024

RAFAEL RIQUENI – Versatae

March 12, 2024

Cleopatra 2024 Six-string-wielding sevillano weaves his wizardry into well-known hits to challenge their omnipresence. Purely instrumental interpretation of songs is often a self-imposed entrapment for artists who are wary of the process’ dangers: it’s too easy to lose sight of … Continue reading →

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TM Stevens Passed Away

March 12, 2024

The average listener didn’t have to be familiar with the name of TM Stevens to have heard and loved his highly original bass-playing. The American musician who passed away on March 10th at the age of 72 was present on … Continue reading →

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Jay Tausig Deep-Dives Into VDGG and Daevid Allen’s Gems

March 11, 2024

Ambition and submission: these contradictory concepts underlie each and every tribute album that’s masterminded by a single artist or ensemble who choose to sculpt an entire record out of another performer’s pieces and creatively appropriate other people’s classics while being … Continue reading →

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RAINBOW CHASERS – Written In The Stars

March 10, 2024

Talking Elephant 2005-2006 / 2023 Stellar spectacle of generations-spanning respect for English traditional song as reflected through fresh creative prism. Perhaps, the least prominent of Ashley Hutchings’ multiple folk-interpreting enterprises, this collective of friends came into existence in 2004, after … Continue reading →

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Brian Johnson And Paul Rodgers Join Guests On Slash’s Blues Do

March 9, 2024

There’s nothing Slash can’t play, and he’s dabble in quite a few different genres over the last decades, but all that the guitarist does can be boiled down to a single thread: the blues. However, fully immersing himself in it … Continue reading →

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