Carmen Souza is back with her 9th CD. Her latest is totally
dedicated to the music of Horace Silver, calling it -The Silver Messengers.
Anyone following the last decade of Souza's career would have predicted this
release sooner or later. Silver has been credited more then once as a big influence
in Souza's career but their connections go beyond the artistic identification.
They both share the same Cape Verdean heritage and they both, in different
ways, mixed that heritage with elements of Jazz. The Silver Messengers mission
in this CD was to honor Silver's pioneering repertoire by bringing it back to
its African/Lusophone roots. Only Carmen Souza, with the help of her long time
musical partner Theo Pascal, who has accomplish so much with her own pioneering
musical signature, could have completed this mission with such wonder and
authenticity.
Carmen Souza with her acclaimed position as composer,
vocalist and instrumentalist in the World, and in the Cape Verdean musical
spectrum, can now voice Silver's work to a whole generation, specially in his
Ancestor's home, that did not knew his work before, promoting even further his
legacy.
Recorded between London and Lisbon, Carmen Souza and Theo
Pascal have reworked 6 Silver original songs, adding some new creole lyrics to
it, also including previous released versions of ''Song for My Father'' ''Cape
Verdean Blues'' and ''Pretty Eyes'', plus 2 all new songs dedicated to Horace
Silver.
The Silver Messengers are Carmen Souza on vocals and guitar,
Theo Pascal on Electric Bass/Dbass, Elias Kacomanolis on drums/Perc and
Benjamin Burrell on piano.
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