Mick & Elli KBB feat. JNR.Robinson - Can't Keep Silent (2017 )

Mick & Elli are the couple Mick and Elli Kaluzny from Switzerland (with Polish background) where Mick sings and plays guitar and Elli also sings and plays the bass. KBB stands for Kaluzny Blues Band. Mick has worked in the past with artists like Calvin Bridges, Wayne Ellington and Sondra Peters.
This couple sings their Christian religious experience with conviction through the blues rock. And on this fifth album you can hear that the necessary attention has been paid to the songs.

The album opens with the relaxed Blues Our Blues in which the couple sing to each other how happy they are with each other. Mick stands out with hard piercing electric guitar work and with smooth acoustic slide play. In Can not Keep Silent a reggae rhythm is suddenly used. An infectious song that sounds like a mix of Simply Red and UB40 is the result.
Secret Place is then a fierce blues rocker with fierce Mick play and powerful vocals from both. The funky blues rock of I'll Be There is striking because of the greasy groove and the great vocals, both solo and in the background vocals.
In Did You Hide, the hard Gary Moore-like game by Mick stands out. An atmospheric ballad with penetrating vocals by Elli. Jimi Hendrix turns up in the funky Kamien. This song is sung in Polish. Kamien is indeed a hamlet in Poland .... Christ Has Paid The Price is a solid rocking gospel blues with an almost Cream-like atmosphere.
The very intimate and acoustic I Still Remember falls outside the blues boat and stands out because of the beautiful cello party of Mick. There are two songs on the album, which sound a bit too sweet, Holy Name and Where Could I Go. But that has nothing to do with the message of those songs.
                                                            Mick & Elli KBB