Serpa, Sara / Mobile
Album: Mobile   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Serpa, Sara   Added:Oct 2011
Label:Inner Circle Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-10-16 Pull Date: 2011-12-18 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Dec 18 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27 Nov 20 Nov 13 Nov 6 Oct 23
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Recent Airplay
1. Dec 11, 2015: Clean Copper Radio PARIS COP TALK
Gold Digging Ants
4. Nov 29, 2011: Rebop
Ahab's Lament
2. Dec 13, 2011: Rebop
Sem Razão, If
5. Nov 22, 2011: Rebop
Sem Razão
3. Dec 06, 2011: Rebop
Gold Digging Ants
6. Nov 18, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Sequoia Gigantis

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-10-16
SARA SERPA: Mobile
Inner Circle, 2011

VOCAL JAZZ – Portuguese vocalist/composer Sara Serpa is truly unique. Serpa’s near-ethereal scatting is predominant here, with her supple, crystal-clear voice soaring in a realm of pure (but angular) melody. Great literary works with voyaging themes are the inspiration for ten challenging pieces. She’s backed by a fine modernist quartet including Kris Davis on piano and Andre Matos on guitars. Cool stuff.

Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8

1. 8:09 – spoken intro, then vocal floats over evolving quartet, guitar soars
2. 7:23 – rhythmic piece with twisty vocal lines, careful piano & tumbling drums
3. 6:22 – unfolds slowly: calm vocal, acoustic guitar & keyboard build up
4. 7:23 – builds from a circular pattern: agitated piano solo, excellent vocal
5. 6:08 – e.e. cummings poem: slow, drawn out and billowing
6. 4:23 – spare: voice & acoustic guitar work in unison, become untethered
7. 4:40 – aching fado vocal in a hall of mirrors, full of mystery and depth
8. 5:57 – spiky zig-zagging rhythm, geometric piano & vocal, turns crunchy
9. 4:47 – slow march into darkness: Portuguese lyrics, melancholy solos
10. 3:46 – eerie multi-tracked vocal, rumbling piano, very quiet improv

[ Fo ] - October 2011

Track Listing
1. Sequoia Gigantis   6. Traveling With Kapuszinsky
2. Ulysses's Costume   7. Sem Razão
3. Pilgrimage To Armanath   8. Gold Digging Ants
4. Ahab's Lament   9. Corto
5. If   10. City Of Light, City Of Darkness