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About: Silence

Marco Antonio Santos

Label: Ears And Eyes Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 1:09:40
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Tracks

About Silence; Bittersweet; Breathtaker; I Can't Breathe; Eyes of Us Both Part 1; That Brief Moment When Everything Seems to Click; Eyes of Us Both Part 2; Things Money Should Not Buy but Seem to Be Always for Sale; Missing Part; Numb; March of the Loud Quietude.

Personnel

Marco Antonio Santos

guitar

Chris Jones

bass

Fabio Augustinis

drums

Dominique Reilly

flute

David Blackwell Jr.

saxophone, baritone

Dr John Mills

saxophone

Daniel Toscano

clarinet

Brigit Fitzgerald

bassoon

Corina Santos

violin

Camille Schiess

violin

Rebecca Lester

viola

Matt Armbruster

cello

Album Description

About: Silence, recorded in 2022, is a conceptual album that comprises diverse forms of art and media--visual arts (video, painting, and digital drawing), dance, poetry, and music. The album’s 11 tracks feature a jazz guitar trio--guitar, upright bass, and drums--joined on four tracks by a woodwind quartet and on five by a string quartet. Tracks are supplemented by video combining improvisational dance, musicians in the studio, visual art, and poetry. Taken together, the elements express varied meanings of silence--introspection, grief, oppression, the absence of sound. “There is certainly a paradox about composing music to portray different aspects of silence,” says Santos. In the forced solitude of the COVID pandemic, when live musical performances all but ceased, and amid times of social upheaval and racial violence, the composer looked within to explore varied meanings of silence in this multimedia work. As a break in the artist’s self-silence, About: Silence is a full-throated embrace of artistic expression across multiple dimensions.