Tide is a recording that displays the many talents of this multi-faceted, Grammy winner.  Luciana flies high and low, fast and slow in Amulet, and enchants and hypnotizes in Tide, Once Again, and Love.  Her uncanny blend of sophistication, precision, and conversational singing is her own.  Her imaginative phrasing grips you from the first note - here is an interpreter who savours the words and revels in the air that carries every note.  Her years of work with so many different artists and in such different styles - Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, Osvaldo Golijov, Hermeto Pascoal, Guillermo Klein, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez - have given Luciana diverse experiences, and kept alive her adventurous musical spirit.

Her Brazilian upbringing in a family of Bossa Nova composers, and her years of study in Boston helped her develop her unique instinct as a singer and composer (Berklee and New England Conservatory trained) but she defies categorization and continues to carry forward her own tradition of exploration and curiosity.  On her last album, The New Bossa Nova, Luciana explored the idea of taking the great North American Pop Song into the aesthetic of Brazilian Bossa Nova.  With Tide, Souza investigates her own life experience and her own sense of placelessness, all in her own musical syntax.  Her previous Brazilian Duos records, and also her poetry-based recordings, The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, and Neruda, illustrated this artist's perceptive grasp of the restlessness of the poet, but it is on Tide that Luciana shows us that she shares this same restless quality in her own art and music.

Tide is a recording that displays the many talents of this multi-faceted, Grammy winner.  Luciana flies high and low, fast and slow in Amulet, and enchants and hypnotizes in Tide, Once Again, and Love.  Her uncanny blend of sophistication, precision, and conversational singing is her own.  Her imaginative phrasing grips you from the first note - here is an interpreter who savours the words and revels in the air that carries every note.  Her years of work with so many different artists and in such different styles - Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, Osvaldo Golijov, Hermeto Pascoal, Guillermo Klein, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez - have given Luciana diverse experiences, and kept alive her adventurous musical spirit.

Her Brazilian upbringing in a family of Bossa Nova composers, and her years of study in Boston helped her develop her unique instinct as a singer and composer (Berklee and New England Conservatory trained) but she defies categorization and continues to carry forward her own tradition of exploration and curiosity.  On her last album, The New Bossa Nova, Luciana explored the idea of taking the great North American Pop Song into the aesthetic of Brazilian Bossa Nova.  With Tide, Souza investigates her own life experience and her own sense of placelessness, all in her own musical syntax.  Her previous Brazilian Duos records, and also her poetry-based recordings, The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, and Neruda, illustrated this artist's perceptive grasp of the restlessness of the poet, but it is on Tide that Luciana shows us that she shares this same restless quality in her own art and music.

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