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Jazz, CD kiadvány, 2025-ös album.
When Music Becomes Poetry: The Luminous Mystery of Camera Obscura.
In an age when images flood our screens with relentless clarity, when stories unfold in 4K resolution at the touch of a fingertip, Felipe Salles offers a different kind of vision, one composed not of pixels but of shadows, nuance, and sonic light. His latest album, Camera Obscura, is not merely a recording but a meditation, an act of musical conjuring that transforms the very idea of perception into a suite of lyrical and cinematic compositions. Here, music becomes poetry, and for the wandering soul, Camera Obscura becomes a quiet, haunting refuge.
From the very first notes, where the saxophone, full of breath and intention, either weaves or sketches a narrative (depending on how you choose to listen), Felipe Salles introduces a work rooted in both grace and identity. It is a voice shaped by geography, by memory, and by a deep engagement with the history of sound. The piano, arriving with delicate authority, expands the emotional landscape, and together they invite us into a world where echoes linger, and each pause is part of the story.
Before the era of streaming epics and palm-sized screens, there was the camera obscura, Latin for “dark chamber”, a simple device that used a pinhole to project the world outside onto a surface within. A natural phenomenon more than a technological marvel, it offered the earliest glimpses of visual representation, not as reproduction but as interpretation. Light and shadow, not pixels and polish. It is this metaphor that drives the conceptual architecture of Salles’s album.
And through it all, Salles himself becomes a one-man wind section, layering soprano and tenor saxophones, piccolo, concert flute, alto and bass flutes, clarinet, and bass clarinet. The effect is often orchestral, yet intimate, like the slow turn of a reel in a forgotten projector.
The pacing of Camera Obscura is breath-like, natural, almost tidal in its undulations. “It took me thirty years to find my own approach,” Salles reflects. “Now I have the maturity to write this music with my voice, with my vision.” That vision is deeply shaped by his journey, from his birthplace in São Paulo, Brazil, to the jazz corridors of the United States, where he has been a vital force since 1995. Along the way, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Randy Brecker, Paquito D’Rivera, David Liebman, Melissa Aldana, Lionel Loueke, Jerry Bergonzi, Magos Herrera, Sofia Rei, Yosvany Terry, and Luciana Souza, among others.
Felvételek:
1. Camera Obscura 9:19
2. Remembrance 3:49
3. Perspective 8:05
4. Memory 2:55
5. Rooms 9:55
6. À Deriva 6:52
7. Perception 1:54
8. Platus 8:35
9. Lucidity 3:45
10. Trem De Prata 9:43
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