Magos Herrera - Aire (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The work of an artist often suggests that of an alchemist. In her new album, Aire, Mexican singer and composer Magos Herrera transformed the grief, fears, and loneliness of a deadly plague into a luminous collection of songs representing "a celebration of our humanity and the healing power of music."

"We have been dealing with something we didn't see coming and was beyond anything we could've imagined,” she says. “But in the process, we found ourselves facing our vulnerability — and, in that, rediscovering our humanity. That's why this album it's unique for me. As we come out of the pandemic, we are not only reconnecting with each other but discovering a new world, too, and we need to find a new way to live in it.”

Aire features twelve songs and includes her new compositions, commissioned by Chamber Music Americas New Jazz Works, and gems from the Great Latin American Songbook, such as "Alfonsina y el Mar" and "Gracias a la Vida." Those two classics suggest bookends of the experience in Aire, "Alfonsina …" as an acknowledgment of impermanence and death; "Gracias a la Vida" as a prayer of gratitude for the many gifts of life.

But for two exceptions — the voice and guitar duo of "Passarinhadeira" and the octet reading of the Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell's classic "Samba em Preludio" —Magos sings over a musical canvas provided by her jazz trio augmented by an orchestra under the artistic direction of Eric and Colin Jacobsen, of Brooklyn Rider fame.

TRACKLIST

1. Magos Herrera - Aire
2. Magos Herrera - Gracias a la Vida
3. Magos Herrera - The Calling
4. Magos Herrera - Choro de Lua
5. Magos Herrera - Alfonsina y el Mar
6. Magos Herrera - Passarinhadeira
7. Magos Herrera - Obra Filhia
8. Magos Herrera - Remanso
9. Magos Herrera - Papalote (Intro)
10. Magos Herrera - Papalote
11. Magos Herrera - Samba Em Preludio
12. Magos Herrera - Healer



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