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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
“Works of art make rules. Rules do not make works of art.”

Michalis Ar
Feb 13, 20211 min read
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Devin Brahja Waldman - Brahja (RR GEMS)
How do you know a record is a future gem? Well, other than waiting like a 5 year old for the vinyl reissue for over a year, other than...

Michalis Ar
Feb 7, 20211 min read
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Kyriakos Sfetsas - Greek Fusion Orchestra Vol.1 (Teranga Beat)
"Greekness" is something we, the new generation of Greeks, try to avoid adopting. We seem to not be proud of our heritage and ,hence,...

Michalis Ar
Nov 22, 20201 min read
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Duke Ellington
"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone"

Michalis Ar
Nov 22, 20201 min read
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Kibrom Birhane - Circles
Oh Kibrom man. What a magnificent array of music history you possess. Ethiopian Folk Music, what a better ingredient to spice it up and...

Michalis Ar
Nov 15, 20201 min read
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Fabriano Fuzion - Cosmik Sindika (BeauMonde Records)
Finding beauty in music is like discovering a new part of your psyche you never knew existed. It fills your mind with ecstatic thoughts...

Michalis Ar
Oct 11, 20201 min read
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Greg Foat - The Mage (AOTN)
An impossible artist, Greg Foat, what with his various musical outfits and his array of genres circulating across the jazz holosphere,...

Michalis Ar
Sep 20, 20201 min read
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”

Michalis Ar
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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Piero Umiliani - Continente Nero (Dagored)
Remember the Muppet Show? Mah Na, Mah Na, tu , tu, tu ru ru. Kinda. Well, this is the guy who wrote the theme song. But he also composed...

Michalis Ar
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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Yishak Banjaw - Love Songs Vol. 2 (Teranga Beat)
Bubbly, spacey, universal Ethiopian electronica from the 1980s. This album marries folk music to loopy psychedelic beats and...

Alexia
Aug 8, 20201 min read
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Ichiro Fujiya and Takeshi Kurihara - Elephant and a Barbar (Musilogue)
Smooth. Mellow. Jazzy Mellon. Hidden gem of an amazing collab between two tremendous musicians, a dialogue of colourful melodies in a...

Michalis Ar
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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Pedrinho - Aleluia (Mar & Sol)
Googling Pedrinho will get you results of a football player I had never heard of. But if you search deeper, you might find this crazy...

Michalis Ar
Jul 15, 20201 min read
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Freddie Mercury
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Michalis Ar
Jul 10, 20201 min read
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Eiji Nakayama- Aya's Samba (Johnny's Disk Record)
This album is the reason why It's Fluffy exists. To resurface gems from the past and music brilliance from the present that's hidden in...

Michalis Ar
Jul 3, 20201 min read
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Mamman Sani - Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
There is a sweetness to this album so moving, it ripples through the skin. Mamman Sani's Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 turns a centuries-old...

Alexia
Jun 26, 20201 min read
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Bruce Springsteen
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Alexia
Jun 15, 20201 min read
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Black Savage - Something for Someone (EMI)
Kenya, 1976. A revolution in society. This short-lived, but exceptional band creates a transfixing album, infused with the atmosphere of...

Michalis Ar
May 27, 20201 min read
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nikosiatrou
May 17, 20200 min read
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Frank Zappa
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Michalis Ar
May 10, 20201 min read
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John Lennon
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

Michalis Ar
May 10, 20201 min read
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