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Jazzpilon Management
Patricia Pas'cal
patricia.pascal@jazzpilon.com
+44 (0) 77 99500179
www.jazzpilon.com
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Dear All,
I'm proud to represent at Womex this year two powerful Women composers:
CARMEN SOUZA & MOR KARBASI!!
They have an amazing talent and represent the best of music rooted in Tradition but with a Contemporary approach.
Please come by our stand...We have Cd's and DVDs for you.
Send me an email if you would like to book a meeting.
Thanks for reading,
Patricia Pas'cal
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PORTUGAL/CAPE VERDE
Acoustic World/Jazz
Based in London/Lisbon
Available all year
DUO/TRIO/QUARTET
Special Line up on Request:
Quintet for Festivals
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Carmen Souza lives in this magical Trans-Atlantic space, thoughtfully exploring the unexpected connections between jazz and Cape Verdean culture. Virtuosic yet warm, stunning and welcoming, Souza, with support from long-time musical collaborator Theo Pas’cal, captures all the possibilities of her Cape Verdean roots, everything from Polish dances to Arabic ornaments, with earthy wisdom and cerebral swing.
Souza has long embraced these roots, the music she grew up hearing her sailor father play on the guitar, the rhythms of language and daily life in a Cape Verdean family. But it wasn’t until she was already studying translation at a university in Lisbon that she discovered the sounds that would forge her voice: the music of jazz greats, from singers like Ella Fitzgerald, who use their voices as instruments, to soloists like Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and, most symbolically, Horace Silver.
Silver points to the intriguing, yet rarely explored connection between American jazz and Cape Verdean music, something Souza felt almost immediately. Silver, whose classic “Song for My Father” gets a new twist thanks to Souza’s Creole lyrics and gorgeous voice, had Cape Verdean ancestry, yet the ties run far deeper.
"Cape Verde was colonized by Portugal, but a lot of other European, African, and Arabic influences came afterward. It’s a mestizo culture,” Souza reflects.
“I came to discover that the songs that people sang in the fields on Cape Verde have the same pentatonic scale identified with the blues,” in part due to a shared history of slavery.
Carmen Souza singular vocal approach and courageous musical chooses have earned her pairing with singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Cleo Laine, Eartha Kitt, Marie Daulne, but she have become a true World Music force and also one of Europe's most in-demand jazz singers, in her own right.
CONCERT HISTORY: North Sea Jazz Festival(NL), San Francisco Jazz Festival (USA), Monterey Jazz Fest (USA), Montreal Jazz Fest (CA), Akbank Jazz Fest (TR), Womad(UK), FMMSines(PT), Ulsan World Music Fest(SK), Leverkusener Jazz Festival(DE), Mercado Cultural(BR), Festival Jazz & Blues de Guaramiranga/Fortaleza (BR), Casa da Musica(PT), Luminato Festival (CA), Trafalgar Square (UK), Ottawa Jazz festival(CA), Bray Jazz Festival(IR), Bimhuis(NL), Barbican(UK), IJazz(NL), Jazz International Rotterdam(NL), Jazz Maastricht(DE), Toronto Afro Fest(CA), Bam Festival(SP), Cedar Cultural Centre(USA), Chicago Cultural Centre(USA), Sunfest(CA), Musicport(UK), Suoni di terra(IT), Nick de La Rocca Jazz Fest(IT), RAI1 Concerto Dell’Epifania(IT), Harmonie(DE), Tropentheater(NL), Moods (CH), Masala Festival (DE), Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall(TR), Satelitte Cafe(FR), Colf(UK), Philarmonie(LU), Théâtre de Vendure d ́Alger(Algeria), Sergels Torg(SE), Handelsbeurs(BE), Helsinki Festival (FI), and many more...
CARMEN SOUZA in a unique Cape Verde singer/songwriter register soon on her CARMEN SOUZA DUO "LONDON ACOUSTIC SET" CD TO BE RELEASE JANUARY 2012...
www.carmensouzaduo.blogspot.com
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ISRAEL
Traditional & Original Jewish Songs with a Contemporary Twist
Based in London/Seville
Available all year
Trio/ Quartet
OUT ON HARMONIA MUNDI
RECORDING NEW ALBUM...
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Mor Karbasi burst onto the global world music scene in 2008 with the release of her first album "Beauty and the Sea", and has continued to capture audiences internationally with her gorgeous, exceptional voice and looks to match.
She was born April 23, 1986 in Jerusalem, to a mother from Nazareth of Moroccan descent and a father from Jerusalem of Persian (Iranian) ancestry. Mor is a young woman whose music is influenced by several cultures, though mainly by her Jewish heritage. A child with parents like hers no doubt carries a great deal of cultural richness. As already mentioned, with Jewish influences, but also Persian, Moroccan, Spanish and of course Israeli. All of which is discernable in her outward appearance, but also in her lovely, effervescent music and many stories. Mor’s biography might very well read like a novel by Isabel Allende where history, magic, joy and hard reality are all interwoven.
A story that is told by her music, in which you are taken on a journey around the Mediterranean, to Morocco and her native Israel, to an age and civilization that is long gone, and yet still in the here and now.
All her influences come together in her predominately Sephardic Jewish repertoire: from traditional Jewish songs, to her own contemporary compositions.
Her Last album "Daughter of the Spring" have collected great reviews and her her performances are acclaimed by public and press.
"Wonderful voice-a truly expressive, electrifying instrument with a huge but superbly controlled rage of tones, decorations and expression..."Froots, UK
"Israeli singer Mor Karbasi is as enchanting as her voice is cathartic" Jewish Telegraph, UK
"Excellent interpretative powers" Maverick magazine, UK
“One of the great young divas of the global music scene…”
Robin Denselow, The Guardian, UK
“Fantastic” Lucy Duran, BBC Radio 3, UK
“Young, female and dramatic looking with a powerful voice and with roots in a rich and ancient tradition, Sephardic, Jewish, Israeli singer Mor Karbasi ticks all the boxes for world music success!” Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, UK
“With a voice infused by Middle Eastern music and the quivering intensity of Iberian flamenco and fado”
Jon Pareles, NY Times, USA
"These are tunes sung by a woman bringing the charisma and the appeal out of several ethnic groups. She truly makes us rediscover one misplaced bloody ribbon in our souls as walking us in Jerusalem.”My sound.bg
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MOR KARBASI TOURING NEXT: CARMEN SOUZA TOURING NEXT:
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After wowing audiences in her 14 date North American tour with repeated amazing performances and her concert in Turkey and Macau, Carmen Souza continues her World Tour in December with the first release concert for the DUO CD in Cape Verde.
Part of the takings from the night plus 50% of all CD sales will go directly to SOS Children's Villages in Cape Verde.
2011
17 Dec, PRAIA, CAPE VERDE
2012
09 Feb, DUC LOMBARDS, PARIS, FR
10 Feb, DUC LOMBARDS, PARIS, FR
11 Feb, L'AGHJA, AJACCIO, FR
24 Mar, SONTHEIM, DE
More dates to be announced soon....
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MELO MUSIC / JAZZPILON STAND J.07
Jazzpilon_patricia.pascal@jazzpilon.com
www.jazzpilon.com
Melo Music_jose@melomusic.nl (Booking)
www.melomusic.nl
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