Wesley Ferreira - Into the Green (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

On INTO THE GREEN, clarinetist Wesley Ferreira takes listeners on an aural journey through a world of musical possibilities where digital and analog become one. Works for solo clarinet place it in the midst of sprawling electronic soundscapes, providing ethereal backdrops for its earthy timbre. With technical flair and blistering speeds, Ferreira perfectly blends the instrument with industrial beats, atmospheric arpeggios, and reverberating effects, creating a seamless juxtaposition of computer-based composition and classical, folk, and world music. In doing so, Ferreira and the composers create a sense of old meeting the new, where the lushness and abundance of nature live in harmony with the exciting possibilities of technology.

INTO THE GREEN is a tour de force solo album of works by a variety of composers for clarinet with electronics and clarinet alone. From its soothing and “earthy” natural acoustics to a seeming amalgamation with computer-generated sound, we hear the full range of the clarinet’s capabilities. From rhapsodic lyricism to the technically virtuosic, Wesley Ferreira takes the listener on a journey of juxtapositions through music that leans heavily on folk and world music influences.

As an album developed and recorded during 2020, quite appropriately, pieces which evoke nature and isolated solitude contrast with the wildly bombastic. We hear the past, a world of innocence, once vibrant and colorful, contrasting with a turbulent yet exciting future where technology permeates life and sound.

The album’s message is one of hope for a more harmonious future, where lessons learned during an unprecedented global pandemic are carried forward:

We must never lose sight of what it means to be a human being of healthy mind and body.

We must strive to live in better harmony with one another and with nature.

It is Ferreira’s hope that we “appreciate and celebrate our differences” and venture “into the green” to ensure a viable future on a healthy planet earth.

TRACKLIST

1. Wesley Ferreira - Into the Green
2. Wesley Ferreira - Sapphire Song
3. Nikola Resanovic - I. A Matter of Fax
4. Wesley Ferreira - II. A Soliloquy
5. Wesley Ferreira - III. A Balkan Dance
6. Wesley Ferreira - IV. Convolution@uakron.edu
7. Wesley Ferreira - Thracian Sketches
8. Wesley Ferreira - Lightshadows, Trembling
9. Wesley Ferreira - Invisible Duet
10. Wesley Ferreira - Carnyx



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