It’s been about forty episodes since the first edition of the Merry Melting Pot – and it’s about time we cooked up another one for ya! Join us as we glide through a set-list that’ll take ya from one side of sound straight through to the other, celebrate this year’s nominations in the quest for […]Read More
Fun fact – some of the first music-videos I ever made were in stop-motion…and to this very day, that style of video is one of my all-time favorites; and this time around, it comes along with one of my all-time favorite international artists, Mario Marco Farinato, aka Panchopigna, whom we’ve featured on these pages many, […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “Bambino Migrante” – Music Video Release/Review This guy! Always stoked to see Mario Marco Farinato pop onto our screens and onto our playlists…dude’s a fantastic musician that instantly makes me appreciate just how awesome it is to experience artists on an international level – and he’s really outdone himself this time […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “Barber Shop Concert”/ “Willin’”– Singles Review I’ve always gotten the feeling that Mario Marco Farinato was born to make music. Judging purely on his level of dedication to the art…from audio to video, from his own songs to the music of others, I genuinely find this guy to be truly inspiring […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “La Paranoie” – Music Video Release/Review C’mon man! If Mario knew just how many artists/bands I deal with on a daily basis that struggle with ONE guitar – he’d know he was pretty much giving me a heart attack watching him set up TWO in the studio to play in the […]Read More
Check out an awesome live version of Mario Marco Farinato’s “L’Ultimo Respiro” from a session in Woodstock, NY this past December in 2016! Stunning song from an ever-impressive world-music star – it’s actually a translated cover tune of Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s original song “Last Night Of The World.” Have a look at the video […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “Strappami Il Cuore” – Single Review Two out of three ain’t bad – isn’t that the famous quote from Meatloaf? Truthfully, three out of three ain’t bad either – but I’ll admit of the three songs I’ve recently checked out from singer/songwriter Mario Marco Farinato, this was the most difficult of […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “L’Ultimo Respiro” – Single Review I have long stood by a tremendous truth about songwriting that has long been known by few and overlooked by many, and that’s that a great song…not just a good song, but a GREAT song, will translate from artist-to-artist, genre-to-genre, even language-to-language and never lose the […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – “Nel Deserto” – Single Review Right on! I really enjoyed Mario Marco Farinato’s music the last time I had a chance to check out what he was up to in the first-half of 2016 last year…even though we might speak different languages in our own native tongues, the universal language of […]Read More
Mario Marco Farinato – Soundcloud Singles – Singles Review You know…I’m not sure how many people really get how contagious attitude can be when creating and sharing music with another person when you made it yourself. We’ve all heard new music…we’ve all heard that song that makes us want to push the boundaries of life […]Read More