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Feb20

Salvador Santana – Keyboard City (Review)

Salvador Santana

Keyboard City

Released by Various Music/Quannum


It goes without saying that a musical lineage like Salvador Santana’s doesn’t hurt in jumpstarting a career. The son of Grammy-winning (ten to be exact) Carlos Santana, the young musician also has a poet for a mother and a blues icon for a grandfather. Add his paternal grandfather (a legendary violinist and, apparently, a mariachi bandleader) to the mix, and it’s no surprise that Santana took to the family business. Staying true to the varied and diverse musical disciplines within his family, Santana opted to dedicate his talents to the keyboard, having studied piano from the age of five and attending music schools along the California coast. His San Francisco-based youth and college years spent in Valenica informs much of Keyboard City, which has a laid-back, beachy, hippie vibe that Santana himself best describes as the “Frisco mindset” in “Under the Sun.”

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Jan20

Kid Koala’s The Slew

Kid Koala teams with an all-star rock 'n roll rhythm section to deliver a cut-up sludge-blues masterpiece 

Since emerging as a teenaged DJ-wunderkind in the mid ’90s, Eric San, AKA Kid Koala, has always pushed himself to be different. His debut was a dizzying multilayered, hand-cut affair, a technique he’s since parlayed into stints with funk group Bullfrog, spaced out hip-hop all-stars Deltron 3030, and a soundtrack to his own graphic novel. Now the Montreal-based turntablist has teamed up with friend and fellow DJ Dylan “Dynomite D” Frombach as The Slew, creating a dirty-blues rock record built out of hand-cut samples with a rock-star assisted live show. Four and a half years in the making, San describes the group’s debut, 100%, as “sludge-Blues a la The Bomb Squad.”

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Jan12

A Personal Choice For Band, Festival of The Decade (Video)

To my feeble mind, this band could be a lot of folks’ choice in the next decade, as well. If you’d told me in 2k that they’d be my choice for “Band of 2KX” I wouldn’t have believed it, but if these cats stay true to their inspirations and keep moving forward, sideways, whatever, their deepest work may very likely be yet to come. As for my festival choice, this American classic was a game-changer and remains crucial.

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