Shai Wosner - Variations on a Theme by FDR (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The collection opens with Derek Bermel’s Pequenas Memórias (“Small memories” in Portuguese), a work dedicated to his wife Andreia Pinto Correia’s immigrant experience as well as a reference to the great writer José Saramago’s memoir. Evoking his wife’s artistic trajectory and how living in her adopted country shaped her path, Bermel weaves in stylistic references to Bach, Chopin, Ellington, and the Beatles. An accumulating melodic figure in the right hand is embellished by jazz-inflected grace notes over a chromatic descending bass. The immigrant’s identity, represented by the core melodic idea, is subjected to the vicissitudes of this often chaotic country of ours, at times open to those born elsewhere and at others relentlessly inhospitable.

TRACKLIST

1. Shai Wosner - Pequenas Memórias
2. Shai Wosner - Bitter Seas
3. Shai Wosner - Passage
4. Shai Wosner - Lacuna
5. Shai Wosner - Plinth (for Kwame Ture)



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