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Hello folks! With today’s review I will take you and myself to a land of beautiful classic guitar. We move to 1994 when a fantastic multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Badi Assad showed her unique style. She came from a musical family , where father and brothers also indulge themselves in a world of music. Solo is a sophomore album, after her debut  Danca do Tons . It starts with surprising silence but soon we can taste tat almost an hour of music will be magical. Her playing technique, original way to lay classical guitar, gives a lot of emotions that strike through album. “Num Pagode Em Planaltina” is filled with small details that will keep you interested. Pristine recording (don’t forget that in th e se times there was no software like a DAW that could help with recording and mixing, old school a l l the way!) sounds just beautiful. Every stroke, every tap, every mute is full of life. With good quality speakers you c ould feel like she was sitting next to you. In “A Bel...

Good evening readers! Today I will expand your music view with an album that was one of the firsts (if not the first, historians still can’t fully agree) representation of psychedelic rock music. When the album was released, it didn’t get too much attention but now, people who are into that kind of music, see that record as a very important. Whole recording took only two days, with a lot of strange and spicy stories tied to this record session (for more details I suggest you to check the Wikipedia page). As a pioneer of a psychedelic rock genre, The Deep took me for a short (around 29 minutes) but very memorable trip (fully sober!). The album starts with song “Color Dreams”. It’s a very catchy song, that can give you a small representation what is upon you in the next tracks. As recording session was strongly infused by different type of drugs, lyrics don’t add up. It is a logical mess but, as we know now, it’s a beauty of this genre (my research skills are definitely need to be i...