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Duende Libre
Alex Chadsey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
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Tracks
rio pescadores; forgotten well; michel; funkination; razzle dazzle; sevilla; moon waltz; for the rekkerd; salif; still; sinister minister;
Personnel
Album Description
Keyboard player Alex Chadsey was fluent in jazz and classical forms. He’d walked the usual, rigorous path of a conservatory-style music education. Then he arrived in Seattle wondering which musical path to pursue next. The answer: Play in salsa bands, perfect his montuno, and learn how music creates community. In 2016, Chadsey’s creative output changed dramatically, coming together as a trio project Duende Libre. Their self-titled debut album (release: May 5, 2017) distills years of performing, apprenticing with master musicians, and crafting originals that explore Latin elements in new contexts. The results are savvy and grooving, reflecting the Seattle scenes Chadsey inhabits and loves, where Uzbek bassists and Jamaican poets and border-crossing fandangos power musical visions. “It’s a fundamental part of our humanity to make music,” Chadsey says. “There’s a lot of power in experiencing music live, or participating in a group that makes music together. It’s empowering to see beyond narrow goals and agendas, to create in a deep way as part of a community.”
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