Magos Herrera - Distancia
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Artist: Magos HerreraBrand: HERRERA,MAGOS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: Sunny Side Records
Soundtracks:
- Reencuentro
- Tus Ojos
- New Song
- Retrato em Branco e Preto
- Inútil Paisaje
- Vera Cruz
- Staying Closer
- Tú, Mi Delirio
- AlegrÃa
- Dindi
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Music Review: MAGOS HERRERA's LOVELY, SOARING JAZZ VOCAL ARTISTRY
Rating: 5 Stars
Five ENJOYABLE Stars!! Stunning performances! Magos Herrera has become the consummate international jazz singer: she can sing latin pop ballads, dazzle New York's jazz venues, be heralded by DownBeat magazine, visibly mesmerize maestro Don Armando Manzanero on TV in Mexico City with her voice and guitar, and show her versatility through a number of recent recordings, such as Pais Maravilla. And she has ability to sing natively in English, Spanish, and Portuguese but don't let the languages stop you, this music transcends language into a realm of pure wordless enjoyment that the listener should approach like "scat-singing" richly emoted, intense vocal notes. An example is the stunning work on "Reencuentro" (Encounter) where it could be all 'scat' but it's just great music. This music truly comes over a "distance" to the listener from as far away as Brazil, Mexico, Africa, Cuba, the USA and the "distance" from your ear to your heart. It is music that is quite personal, intimate, and at times overwhelming as she takes on some new songs and some Jobim, Nascimento, and Portillo de la Luz classics. The excellent backup group has DownBeat "guitar rising star winner" Lionel Loueke who is also on vocals, the inventive Aaron Goldberg on piano, and the excellent shadings and underpinnings of Ricky Rodriguez on bass and Alex Kautz drums.
The 'best of the best' begins with "Reencuentro" (Encounter), which has Ms Herrera's vocal 'beat box' surging into 'scat' and eventually into Spanish and it's just great singing, with Mr Loueke's laying down an intense densely chorded solo. "Alegria" has Magos soaring and very inventive with the group showing their Coltrane influences through some intense solos over a modal underpinning. The lush "Tus Ojos" (Your Eyes) is an example of the fact that Ms Herrera sings in Spanish on an almost spiritual level of pure beauty, and here her group gives us some blazing solos from Aaron Goldberg on piano and Lionel Loueke on guitar, with Kautz' laying down effective rim shots over Rodriguez' hip bass lines. The Tom Jobin/Chico Buarque classic "Retrato Em Branco e Preto" (Portrait in Black & White), so closely associated with the late, great Brazilian super-diva Elis Regina becomes a jazzy, hip, modally-paced, and very emotional journey with Alex Kautz dropping Elvin Jones-like bombs in the background over Goldberg's inventive Tyner-isms. The classic Jobim tune "Dindi" is given a captivating performance. She 're-imagines' Milton Nascimento's "Vera Cruz", singing in Spanish, using arrangement elements from Elis Regina's original shorter version, stretching it way out with vocal nuances, hot instrumental solos, and a surprising wild coda that drops us into the middle of a South American street festival. And perhaps best of all is her overwhelmingly beautiful performance of César Portillo de la Luz' classic composition "Tu Mi Delirio" ("You, My Delirium"), which is Ms Herrera's best vocal performance on a CD that is full of superlative vocal and musical performances. Magos Herrera is a fascinating, multi-talended singer and this is one of 2009's best vocal performances. My Highest Recommendation. Five INTERNATIONAL Stars! (This review is based on an iTunes download)
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If you listen to Salt of the Earth, the sensational track from saxophonist Tim Ries Sunnyside CD, Stones World, you ll hear a sensuous and thrilling contralto voice that swings and sighs, like no other. That voice belongs to the brilliant and beautiful, Mexican-born, New York-based singer, Magos Herrera. Like Luciana Souza and Claudia Acuna, she is a world-class jazz vocalist in the literal sense of the word: She s fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and is likewise proficient in deciphering and delivering the syncopated science of jazz, and Afro-Hispanic musical genres. Her gifts are on full display on her Sunnyside debut, Distancia, supported by an exceptional rhythm section featuring guitarist Lionel Loueke, pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Ricky Rodriguez, drummer Alex Kautz, with background vocalists Ingrid and Jennifer Beaujean. Buoyed by that stellar lineup, Herrera delivers a delicious, dancing and diverse ten-track potpourri of original songs, and standards by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, and Cesar Portillo de la Luz.All this music traveled within me, before being recorded, through different awarenesses of distance, just to remind me that life is movement, its energy that continuously transforms into new ideas, identities and paradigms, Magos writes in the CD liner notes, revealing that all true reencounters can only take place with deep surrender in the form of pure love, acceptance and gratitude.
Magos love and thanks come through loud and clear on this disc co-produced by Tim Ries. Her self-penned songs Reencountro Tu Ojos, Staying Closer, Alegria, are pulsed by scintillating vocal percussion, interlocking, Pan-Afro/American rhythmic structures, tinges of Joni Mitchell-style rock timbres, and flamenco-flavored handclaps. Magos reinterprets the works of master composers with equal verve. She updates Caesar Portillo De la Luz s famous bolero Tu, Mi Delirio, with a kind of quiet storm vibe. Nascimento s Vera Cruz is resurrected with a deep groove, which morphs into a spirited Tower of Babel-style vocal beat box. And Jobim s Retrato em Blanco E Preto, Inutil Paisaje, and Dindi are rendered in impassioned ballad, bossa nova-scat, and John Coltrane-ish settings.
If, as the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes an musician open to all of the world s musical hues and grooves to produce an artist like Magos Herrera. Born in Mexico City, Magos graduated from the Musicians Institute of Technology, and studied at Mannes College of Music, the New England Conservatory, and privately with opera teacher Konstantin Jadan. She moved back to Mexico City in 1998, where she released her first CD, Cajuina (Independiente, 1998), followed by Orquideas Surrantes (JM Distributors, 2000), Whispering Orchids (Opcion Sonica, 2000), Mexican Divas II/III (Opcion Sonica, 2001-2002), Pais Maravilla (JM Distributors, 2003), Magos Herrera Compilacion (Mecca Records, 2004) and Todo Puede Inspirar (EMI Music, 2005). She s toured Latin America, India, Japan, and the United States and performed and recorded with Jerry Gonzalez, Diego el Cigala, Tim Ries, and Ute Lemper.
Magos Herrera has evolved into a global-centric musician, capable of expressing herself in a multiplicity of languages, and vocal settings; from straight-ahead, ballads, scats, and the various dimensions and invention of Afro-Latin music. As Distancia, proves, no style of music is distant from her.
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