Years ago, at a bar in Rhodes, while sitting under a fan, hanging from a tree we struck up a conversation with the boy at the bar – a bass player (and in Greece the staff has always studied something different to what they are doing). He overheard us talking about music and asked – Have you heard of Snarky Puppy? And I most definitely had…

The year starts off with two very interesting projects that are totally different from one another.  The first one is the new, fourth album of GoGo Penguin “A Humdrum Star” – their second album under the Blue Note label.. The second interesting project is David Murray’s “Blues for Memo”, featuring Saul Williams.

David Bowie is one of the people that have formed the musical taste of generations – innovator, aesthete, gentleman, pioneer, knowing no boundaries and always one step ahead…

John Medeski, Marc Ribot, Chess Smith and Auktyon. It’s like a globe – if you spin it, you don’t know where you would end up. A part of this mystery relates to the coming together of musicians from both sides of the Iron curtain, new and old.