Portsmouth Crooner's Revival

The year: 2007. The place: England's east coastal city of Portsmouth.
Triggered by fashion's unceasable revision of the past, a group of young male artists decide to take upon themselves the epithet once refused by popular music symbols like Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby: "Crooners".
"...passing from the Italian Opera to the american Jazz scene, "crooning" bears the attributes of the long-out-of-production-gentleman, the balladeer, the obsessively-romantic-guy...", "...from Portsmouth, specially Leonard Rag, whose Film Noir ambiance is taken as a sequence of a meeting between David Lynch and Tom Waits...". (Read the rest of the enterview with Joe Kardinal in this months issue of NoMatchFound)