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About Angelica Matveeva

Instrument: Vocals

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Musician

Angelica Matveeva is a versatile singer, composer and lyricist whose specialty and artistic goal lies in creating and carrying out concept projects. Angelica was born on August, 25th 1985 in Moscow (Russia) to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, has been partly raised in Belgium, started her career in Stockholm (Sweden) and during stays in Italy, Poland, Turkey and Finland collaborated with musicians from these countries. Currently Angelica is based in Tromsø, Norway. Angelica's debut album "Swedish poetry goes jazz" was released in April 2011 and consists entirely of her own compositions on Swedish 20th and 21st century poetry

Album

Vocalese

By Angelica Matveeva

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Wonderyear; You Go To My Head; Ping Pong; Moody’s Mood for Love; Yes or No; Joy Spring; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Scrapple from the Apple.

Article: Album Review

Angelica Matveeva: Vocalese

Read "Vocalese" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2015

"Vocalese" is defined as, “a style or musical genre of jazz singing wherein words are sung to melodies that were originally part of an all-instrumental composition or improvisation." The grand purveyors of this jazz vocals offshoot include King Pleasure, Eddie Jefferson, Jon Hendricks and Bob Dorough. It is the most “jazzy" of jazz idioms. A grand ...

Video

Vocalese: The Project

Featuring the music of Angelica Matveeva
Duration: 04:44
February 16, 2015

"Vocalese" is Angelica Matveeva's third album and features existing vocalese pieces as well as completely new compositions, where Matveeva pens lyrics to solos by Wayne Shorter, Franco Ambrosetti, Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson and Peter Asplund. The modern sound is the result of a collaboration between two Finnish arrangers Tuomas Juhani Turunen and Ville Vannemaa, and one of the finest younger generation Italian piano trios led by pianist Fabio Giachino.