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After their first joint recording experience in 2022, in which they dedicated a monograph to the Beatles, revisiting their great classics, Sarah Jane Morris, a British jazz, rock, and R&B singer and songwriter, and the Solis String Quartet, a Neapolitan string quartet with extensive concert and recording experience, are embarking on a new album. This time, it's not a monograph, but a tribute to a series of artists who have left an indelible mark on the universal music world with their art and unique lifestyle. The project is titled "The 27 Club," a reference to those artists who, despite not choosing to belong to any elite circle, were united by the fate of having left this world too soon, at just 27 years old. Among them are great names such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and Otis Redding. Despite their differences, these artists share a charisma and a passion for music that has made them immortal. Their musical legacy continues to celebrate their memory and inspire new generations. The album is a tribute to these timeless artists, whose songs remain timeless and continue to move. Forever Young. "After our first recording collaboration with Sarah Jane Morris in 2022, in which we dedicated a monograph to the Beatles, revisiting their great classics, we decided to take on a new challenge, no longer a monograph but a work dedicated to a series of artists who have unmistakably marked the universal musical world with their art and their very particular lifestyle! We called it "Forever Young" and it tells the story of the "Club of 27" in music; an imaginary, dark and very elitist circle in which artists of the caliber of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Otis Redding found themselves enrolled, certainly unwillingly and without their knowledge, after death snatched them from success on the threshold of twenty-seven, only to restore them, almost as compensation, to immortal glory, just a stone's throw from legend. Musically speaking, thanks to the overflowing evocative power of Sarah Jane Morris's voice, it was both fascinating and stimulating for us to try to restore It integrates the idea and mood that permeated and still live on in these compositions, the rhythm, the melody, and the lyricism, in an original reinterpretation that accompanies the listener in the redi scovery of these masterpieces! Solis String Quartet "Greatly talented creative people often die young, like Keats, Mozart, Schubert, Raphael, and the Brontë sisters. We tend to think of them in two ways: we wonder what they might have accomplished had they lived longer. However, more positively, we can appreciate their youthful talents as impervious to the passage of time, their brilliance preserved in their eternal youth. They will remain forever young." Sarah Jane Morris