For those unaware, MOTU (Music Of The Universe) is Dr. Richard Michelson, the New York based recording artist, musician, composer, and performer who is best known for his unique Blues, Jazz, and Rock Guitar styles.

MOTU has also received high praise from well-known figures in the music industry for his work with charities down the years and now brings out his brand new album Awareness Or Illusion.

Complete with Dee Michelson singing harmonies alongside Dr. Rich on quite a few of the songs, this will be their 24th official album and contains eleven (11) new MOTU American Roots & Rock originals.

1. Just Shut Up, Stop Talking To Me
2. Something Has Changed
3. There’s Only Us
4. For Jeff
5. Too Much Bullshit to Normalize
6. You Always Got Something to Say
7. I Look to The East
8. Horizon
9. Awareness Or Illusion
10. Easier To Be Blind
11. A Company Man

This fantastic, true blues Americana roots rock and guitar-driven new recording opens on the Rolling Stones-esque Just Shut Up, Stop Talking To Me and then we get the grunge-hued appeal of Something Has Changed, the Country-Americana-Rocker There’s Only Us, with both the instrumental guitar fusion showcased within For Jeff and the Delta-style blues of Too Much Bullshit to Normalize along thereafter.

With Dr. Richard Michelson again playing an amazing amount of instruments on this album, such as keyboards, mandolin, harmonica, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, pedal steel guitar, and dobro, up next is the sarcastic rocker You Always Got Something to Say which is itself backed seamlessly by the dutifully reflective Americana of I Look to The East, the solo acoustic instrumental Horizon and the ethereally impassioned title track Awareness Or Illusion, the album rounding out on the harmonica/guitar driven beauty Easier To Be Blind, coming to a close on the Gov’t Mule styled A Company Man.

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