The Overlooked Tracks podcast is back on the road and this time we are exploring the land where the beat, rhythm and style of music began, The continent of Africa.  I need to get this out of the way now and apologize for the long absence because there were so many tracks to choose resulting in one the hardest podcast episode we’ve done at this point.  It was overwhelming on choosing songs for the podcast because there’s tons of music that’s connected with each country in Africa and it kicked my ass a bit on choosing them.

It is summer time, or in several parts of the world, summer is coming to an end, but other parts of the globe summertime is about to begin.  Either way - it's hot, people can’t go anywhere because of the coronavirus and about that one, like I always say: WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER, so if we want to enjoy things that life has to offer, each of us need to do our fair share to REALLY bypass this crazy mess we are in.  Yep, this experience we are experiencing is crazy as hell, but just like the last episode while we are taking deep breaths and washing our worries away at the Chill Laundry Lounge, let’s take a listen to some summertime jazz music with 5 specially picked music artists to hopefully calm this storm called a world pandemic.

What’s up everyone and welcome to the Chill Laundry Lounge where you can wash your worries away and listen to some chill music and just simply lounge.  Decided to do the podcast in the neighborhood Laundry Mat and get some clothes washed and again to wash my worries away so I can chill, focus on my mental state or meet new people or old friends.  The Chill laundry Lounge can be a good place to listen to the machines wash clothes and in a way a form of meditation. This time, we invite you to listen to the sounds of you and me and we and us.

Now that the Overlooked Tracks podcast is taking a break from traveling and give the magical musical bus a good tune-up, it’s time to give a music genre some exposure and try to move away from a label that country music has possessed for a long time and try to simply move away from that not so good label and reputation of the past.  When exploring this genre and connected with some music artists on social media, it is for sure that country music has got a bad rap.  Opening up the mind up a bit and taking steps to learn about country music can help you learn one thing:

THERE SOME DAMN GOOD MUSIC OUT THERE!! 

It took a bit, but now we will present to you 5 music artists that are seriously worth a listen and for you, the listener to support these and many more country music artists as much as possible.  No, I won’t get on a horse and ride into the sunset – I’m sitting on my big butt for this episode and give you gems, courtesy of the Overlooked Tracks podcast.

It is time to get back on the magical music and explores more jewels in music with part 2 of the Asian Excursion – also called Episode #21 of the Overlooked Tracks podcast.  My name is Kenny Chiba and I had to reorganize the arrangement of this podcast because to tell it truthfully, it was overwhelming to get all types of music from the Asian Continent between episodes 20 and 21.

I had to pump the brakes and come to realize that I will continue to do my best to provide you the very best at music that’s being overlooked, but I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP on finding musical gems, so go to www.overlookedtracks.com/contact to give feedback and suggestions on music, go to Twitter and looked “OVERLOOKEDTRAX” to Direct Message me and guide me to a direction where great music is being buried and needs to be dug up and give life to the rest of us.

Music is the source of expression, the source of both mental and physical power and most of all to sooth the soul of the beauty and the beast.  In other words, Music should be simply shared throughout our lives to live the best lives we can.

As we are on the Overlooked Tracks Music Bus traveling to several destinations of The Philippines, Singapore, India and the Russian Federation and my goodness this has been a ride to journey on because there is music all over the place, an adventure to both listen to traditional and modern type of music.  Yes, it has been difficult to pick, which is what makes the trip even more pleasurable to take – to seek, explore and discover sounds from the Music Universe, which indeed is a very BIG place and again simply to live the best life with music as much as possible with the many MANY SOUNDS, RHYTHMS AND BEATS.

We are back on the road to our next destination and these set of tracks for episode #19 can be described by one word – MOTIVATION.  Tracks 1 and 2 are for the motivation of love, togetherness, and staying focused on each other during moments in life. Track 3 is simply telling you to keeping it real and stop standing still when you got to live and it’s all a big game but the difference is how you play the field!! In others words – GET OFF YOUR ASS AND LIVE YOU AND LIVE THE BEST OF YOU!!

It’s a pleasure to be with you again for another edition of the Overlooked Tracks podcast.  It’s time to display some artists from the country of Korea. Many people around the globe think the only type of music coming out of Korea is K-Pop music, which is fine and much success to the singers and singer groups, but if you look a little deeper, you can find some diamonds from singers contributing to the music  universe and you need to listen what these artists have to offer and they offer plenty.

For this chapter of the Overlooked Tracks podcast, we packed up again on the Overlooked Tracks Music Bus and fly (yes the bus can fly – Never seen a flying bus before?) to the country of Korea to find some gold  (besides K-POP music, which everyone in the world knows something about the sensation of K-POP).  Naw Man, Overlooked Tracks is in the search of hidden gold from other Korea artists providing sounds for the soul and not just for the fame and revenue.

But first, wanted to display some artists you need to listen to and recognize of the music art these artists bring to the music universe.  Two of them I wanted to play for a while now and now is the opportunity, and one is a returning artist from the first season and she is rocking it with a new release.  Let’s get started before I started one of my habits again – Talking too much from the excitement with these Overlooked Tracks artists!!

KONINCHIWA MINA-SAN or Welcome everyone to season #2 of the Overlooked Tracks podcast where your music search has ended here with flavor tracks from around the world and beyond from artists you may have overloooked!! This podcast will display musical artists that compose and produce such great sounds and make you say WHAT HAVE I BEEN OVERLOOKING!? 

As we finished the first season of Overlooked Tracks, we start this path of music searching in the country of Japan – Hopefully the next host of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.  Due to Corona-Virus that stopped time pretty much everything in 2020, let’s send a couple of prayers to the Olympic Gods to hold the games this 2021 year.  When that happens, the place will go ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!