Credits:

Luciana Souza

Description:

Diva Luciana Souza's first new album in 3 years, 10 imaginative songs that take Leonard Cohen's world as their starting point. The drumless trio with Scott Corey and Sico Piñeiro, the sixth Larry Cline-produced album with a folky feel, is also very attractive! Luciana Sosa has become one of the leading artists of our time, both in name and reality, based on jazz/Brazilian music, and her first album in three years is full of a simple and profound worldview. The concept is "words, poetry" and "strings". Luciana was completely fascinated by Leonard Cohen's "Book of Longing" many years ago. This work was inspired by that Cohen, as well as Edna Millay and Emily Dickinson. It contains 10 songs, including her own lyrics. The three members of the band are bassist Scott Corey and guitarist Sico Pinheiro. The slow to medium tempo numbers are performed in a drumless style, which gives a sense of time and space that is characteristic of this band. Luciana says, "I wanted to express the importance of words and what they lead me to," and "I wanted the performance to be simple and unadorned, without complex layers of harmonies," and the world of the piece is extremely simple. However, it is precisely because it is simple that it is full of emotion.The world of poetry and the sound of strings played by Scott Corey, a musician whom Luciana admires and who has been a perfect musician through their long relationship, and Sico Pinheiro, who has only been playing with Luciana for a little while but who she immediately felt a deep empathy with after playing with him. Luciana's world, which she spins with a thoughtful, soft voice as if she were chewing on a poem, is at once gentle and rich. Luciana says that "the 'clear' meaning of a poem is not necessarily important," and that she and the two musicians "get answers without even asking, through 'trust' and 'intuition'". The music played by musicians who feel each other's playing has the power to naturally transcend the content and meaning of English poetry and convey it to the listener. Luciana, however, says that she reads the poems many times, chews on them, and develops her image of them before playing music. Prior to the creation of this work, Luciana also released works expressing the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop in 2000 and Pablo Neruda in 2003. The previous works have been a continuation of these attempts, and are the culmination of many years of accumulation into one. The recording is simple, with Corey on bass, Piniero on rhythm guitar, and Luciana's voice recorded live, with guitar solos and percussion overdubs on some tracks, but it also transcends the boundaries of genre and category, and shows the maturity of a singer. This is a work that transcends the boundaries of genres and categories, and also shows the maturity of a singer. The album was produced by Larry Klein, who has built a strong partnership with the company in both his personal and professional life.This work is recommended/listened to by fans of American pop music, which extends from Klein's former partner, Joni Mitchell.

Tracklisting:

1.These Things
2.Daybreak
3.Alms
4.Night Song
5.Paris
6.The Book
7.Tonight
8.We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
9.A Life
10.Remember