2019 continues to be a key year for the recording career of Angel Bat Dawid, who is performing at the Tremor festival, in Ponta Delgada, this Saturday (April 1), where he was working in residence with the Banda Fundação Brasileira. just edited requiem for jazzan album that can be heard as a play, a performance around jazz and its history.
Angel Bat Dawid worked on a 2019 performance at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago. It was in 2019 that the acclaimed the oraclethe best of the year for many publications (including the magazine The wire), one of the best premieres of recent years. And it was also in 2019 that the performance of livelive album that he released at the end of 2020, with the first concert he gave in Europe with Tha Brothahood, in Berlin.
That was the year before everything else, before the pandemic, and that could explain some of these moves. But stepping back and processing what has been done is part of the Angel Bat Dawid method. the oracle the result of years of work, occasional but intentional recordings of Angel Bat Dawid (whose instrument of choice is the clarinet, but that doesn’t end there), many on cell phone. In a way, the oracle is the story of a lifetime, of a woman who survived a brain tumor, who spent years doing odd jobs to pay the bills, and at one point decides to stop working, pool her pension money, and travel the world to convinced to create music. This is how Bat Dawid discovered a unique language of spiritual jazz.
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Source: Observadora
