Here is my entry for @psos new challenge: [Music A to Z Challenge #H](https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@psos/music-a-to-z-challenge-h)

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- 2 Bands starting with the letter H, my choices are:

# 1) Hiromi Uehara

Style: **Jazz / Piano**
Country: **Japan**

I'll start with **a stupidly talented Jazz artist** before moving to Metal again.

If you never heard about **Hiromi Uehara**, you're in for a treat. She's **one of the most talented Jazz Pianists of all time** and she is the one **composing pretty much every song** in her vast repertoire, which includes **5 albums as a solo artist**, **2 albums with the Hiromi's Sonicbloom** project and **4 albums with The Trio Project**... plus **5 Live DVD** releases! 😲

The song **[Caravan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ICb7bbvTA)** appeared in the album **Beyond Standard**, released under the project **Hiromi's Sonicbloom** and every time she plays it live... the crowd goes wild.

Prepare yourself for a very intense song, with lots of solos and melodic ballads, from **herself in the piano**, **David Fiuczynski in the guitar**, **bassist Tony Grey** and **Jordan Perlson in the drums**.

The 4 of them performed together in in 2008, at the **XI Festival de Jazz de San Javier** and this is a truly memorable spectacle! 😍

Check out how insanely fast her hands move around the **[8:00](https://youtu.be/o9ICb7bbvTA?t=480)** mark. 🤯

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# 2) Haggard

Style: **Metal / Symphonic Metal**
Country: **German**

I was undecided about which artists to pick up... but since the first artist is, above all, a pianist... I decided **Haggard** was a good fit, since they also have **a damn good pianist**, besides **a whole orchestra** and **a few lyrical singers playing together**. 

This German group **combines Metal with Classical Music** to achieve a sound so strange that usually catches new listeners off guard. 

Here is the video for the song **[Awaking the Centuries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oyjmMzz3OM)**, live at **Wacken Open Air** (2007). The music sounds a lot more polished in studio, speacialy the vocals... but still, this is a very good performance and I hope you enjoy it.

<center>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oyjmMzz3OM</center>

If you prefer to listen the studio version, there is no videoclip, only sound.
Here it is: **[Awaking the Centuries - Studio Version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYRYCIAKZo)**

<center>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYRYCIAKZo</center>

I hope you have enjoyed these 2 crazy songs. 😈

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If you want to join the challenge, visit the announcement post, here: **[Music A to Z Challenge #H](https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@psos/music-a-to-z-challenge-h)** and use the tag **#a-zmusic**.

See my previous entries here:

- A) **[The Agonist & Arch Enemy / Atakama & Amely Sky](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/the-agonist-and-arch-enemy-music-a-to-z-challenge-a)** [Metal]
- B) **[Багира & Blind Ivy](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/bagira-and-blind-ivy-music-a-to-z-challenge-b)** [Metal]
- C) **[Conquer Divide & Cripper](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/conquer-divide-and-cripper-music-a-to-z-challenge-c)** [Metal]
- D) **[Dark Tranquility & Dead Sara](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/dark-tranquility-and-dead-sara-music-a-to-z-challenge-d)** [Metal / Rock]
- E) **[Eths & Expellow](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/eths-and-expellow-music-a-to-z-challenge-e)** [Metal]
- F) **[Fine Fine Titans & Frantic Amber](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/fine-fine-titans-and-frantic-amber-music-a-to-z-challenge-f)** [Metal]
- G) **[Green Jellÿ & GWAR](https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@trincowski/green-jelly-and-gwar-music-a-to-z-challenge-g)** [Comedy Rock / Comedy Metal]

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