Sincere

Album cultured and refined, but at the same time rude and engaging this The Long Silence by Alessandro Lepore, multi-instrumentalist with a flokblues matrix. It's been several years since the last unpublished work, 24/7 Twentyfourseven, but this does not mean that Lepore has been firm, indeed. In the middle live, changes of city, new collaborations and also the victory of the Artist who was not there (International section) in the final at the CPM in Milan in 2014, the contest organized by the magazine L'Isola that was not there. And now here it is, decided more than ever to hug his guitar and make us listen to a handful of songs contained in an emblematic title, The Long Silence. 'A long silence', as he jokes about himself, a delay that could seem an eternity for an artist, but as we said the lack of a physical "record" product did not prevent him from shaping and refining his art of performer and 'songwriter' (a term that prefers singer-songwriter). "The Long Silence is a project that has occupied the last two years of my life, I produced and recorded it, and I played practically all the instruments, except for the pedal steel guitar , played by the extraordinary Roby Colella. "

John Coltrane once claimed that you could play a shoestring if you’re sincere, so imagine what a sincere, gifted, and unremittingly devoted artist can do with a drum machine, piano, and 13 musicians at his disposal. With The Sound of Lasso, the Michigan composer, The Lasso, has turned these intangible emotions into lush wordless symphonies.

Woodlander is the brainchild of Bern based swiss pianist Luzius Schuler. A unique trio existing of piano, trumpet and drums. In the past unusual band setting are often related to newly discovered technical possibilities. Often there is a clear relationship between the decreasing number of instrumentalists and the increasing amount of loopstations, laptops and electrical outlets being used on stage. Luzius Schuler strips down his Woodlander to the bare musical necessities. Acoustic and pure. Making this debut appear sincere and vulnerable. Calvins Toboggan is an album full of strong ideas, musicality and fantasy.