Album Notes

“Mike Sponza takes the hard risk of recording one of the best italian blues album since years. The songs show the rare skill of writing original arrangements near to genial invention”
Luca Lupoli - IL POPOLO DEL BLUES

"What comes out by listening to the cd is the band’s groove and first class sound which often are forgotten even in more important overseas productions: contemporary blues, rich of different sounds”
Riccardo Cappelli - CHITARRE

“Beside the high number of interesting musicians , there is a high quality interplay between the guests. Not only a central european cd: a successful one!”
Dietmar Hoscher - CONCERTO MAGAZINE (a), BLUES NEWS (d)

“Modern, talented and convincent!”
Christophe Mourot – SOUL BAG (fr)

“…it doesn’t sound quite like anything else around, and it’s much more than well worth a listen”.
Norman Darwen – BLUES ART STUDIO (a)

10 months of production, 16 musicians from central europe plus the great voices of kay foster jackson and herbie goins, 12 songs: these are the main numbers of mike's new project. the cd has been produced in trieste (italy), zagreb (croatia), budapest (hungary) and bratislava (slovak).

the most complete album of mike sponza's discography, ranging from classic blues tunes to soul jazz grooves. this is mike's vision of contemporary blues at his best!

the organ trio format has been expanded up to a tentet with all the in between different flavours!

Guitarist, singer, composer, bandleader, blues promoter: Mike Sponza forms his first blues band in Trieste (Italy) in 1985.

"Keep it simple!" is the musical philosophy behind Mike Sponza's musical projects: he keeps his music style on compositions and arrangements in order to gain the best results in the simplest way, by using all the available textures between blues' elements.