"Diligence and labor" by Blanco y Negro

Blanco y Negro is a classical chamber ensemble, but with a pop attitude. They like to play popular music like The Doors, Coldplay and Wings on classical instruments but they love to shock their audiences (in their own gentle way) by using electrified instruments like guitars and keyboards. But then again this amplified music is a modern version of classical music by Bach, Haydn and Rossini.

This way Blanco y Negro makes a summary of so called "pop" music from different centuries.

To me it's too soft and too mellow, but thousands and thousands of fans bought their first album "Across the world", so this follow up album "Diligence and labor" will find his way to all these people too, I guess...

"Diligence and labor" by Blanco y Negro

"The art of knowing what not to say" by L. Nichols Buttons

L. Nichols Buttons is very shy Canadian  singer/songwriter who wrote an entire album in his kitchen. He doesn't even like to become famous and "The art of knowing what not to say" -his debut- keeps selling. Nichols doesn't like the fuzz about album releases and he already statedin a music magazine that he's not going to write any other song before this "commercial storm" (as he calls it) is over.

So what should I advise you? Not to buy this album?

"The art of knowing what not to say" by L. Nichols Buttons

"Do most things" by Deadman

Deadman is a Mediterranian collective of musicians with a lot of different influences, being French/Spanish mestize, Roumanian gypsy jazz, French urban hiphop, Italian latin jazz, and some black influences from different Maghreb countries. If this album by the name of "Do most things" doesn't sound lively and joyful, nothing does. The band itself is not a well defined group, but a bunch of ever changing musicians. So the flavour of the music changes constantly, depending on the roots of the members, and sounds like nothing else i've heard before.

A wonderfull experience.

"Do most things" by Deadman