Nostalgia for Terra Incognita

Alex é além de vizinho, um chapa franco-americano, apaixoado pelo Brasil e pela música brasileira. O poder da argumentação do Alex, arrebata. As entonações que tira da sua viola tem algo de bossa, algo da briza de Pat Metheny e alma de Cassandra Wilson (que descobri com ele), mas também algo de angústia. A angústia pessoal de uma alma incapaz de suportar os horrores deste mundo.

Podemos ouvir nas suas notas uma confissão, como se estivesse tentando organizar todos os barulhos pós-modernos numa melodia suave, por mais recôndito e velado que seja seu desabafo.

Taí a biografia do cara:

Born in Brittany, the Celtic province of France, raised mostly in rural North Carolina, and a traveler through Spain and Latin America now living in Washington, DC, Alex has always sought to create music that expresses his unique confluence of world cultures, what he calls “New World jazz.” A former novelist and poet with an MA from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at Austin, he seeks to make music that tells stories of the exotic and the familiar--the “exotic” always being familiar to some of us. He has found an ideal vehicle for this effort in the quartet Amérique Latine, formed with vocalist Lena Seikaly (of Palestinian descent), bassist Leonardo Lucini, and drummer Alejandro Lucini (brothers who grew up in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro). The group’s new CD, Nostalgia for Terra Incognita, navigates the waters where these cultures meet. Nostalgia includes six compositions by Alex as well as five standards from the U.S., French, and Brazilian repertoires, approached from the group’s distinct perspective on the musical world. The result is an attempt to map the group's own Terra Incognita, a land of memory and imagination.
Na respectiva ordem: Alejandro Lucini, Lena Seikaly, Leonardo Lucini e Alex Martin

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