Tireless singer and instrumentalist, Julio Lobos comes back to the first place of the podium to present his last two albums he has practically recorded alone in two different projects As the album title suggests, the first one presents a collection of fourteen ’hand made’ covers of different styles and colours Julio deeply admires and feels a special attraction to Lobos puts the voice, makes the backing vocals, plays keyboards, harmonica, slide guitar, accordion, melodica, percussion or kazoo, besides doing all loops and samplers, only backed in some cuts by his right hand bass player Josep Pasto Martí or Miguel Gonzalez, Ramon Santiveri and Robert Gomez on guitars and Tahiel García Morero who creates a very special atmosphere in the song Bad Card Do you know who Tahiel is? I will not reveal the secret, so you better try to discover it by yourselves or ask Julio Lobos when you see him playing a live show Covers coming from Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Lennon-Mc Cartney, Jr Walker, Ron Wood, Jagger-Richards or Sting come along this personal distinctive album where Mr Lobos performs with an undeniable quality that very few artists can show all over our country His dedication, commitment and energy, together with the special way of doing songs arrangements and his performing abilities become evident, both in this Handmade Covers as in the second album, recorded live at the noble fine hall of Palau Gomis, that hosts the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona that, with this album, starts a new recording label In this second album Julio plays eighteen blues only with his acoustic grand piano and his always magnificent broken voice which make the Museum foundations shake since the first notes of the opening song Little Red Rooster by Howlin’ Wolf, to I Got A Woman by Ray Charles, Mama Don’t by Washboard Sam, Minnie The Moocher by Cab Calloway or Woke Up This Morning by BB King among others Two great albums, which become definitive in Lobos’ discography, I am sure there will deeply impress you Although each album has its own style, both are complementary, as black music is the nexus and connection between them Lyrics in English and Spanish alternate in both cds, coming and flowing with the terrific passion and the absolute commitment Mr Lobos puts in everything he does