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Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project

Tessa Souter

Label: NOANARA Records
Released: 2025
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Tracks

A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1); Mood (Musica Universalis); Holding On To Beauty (Gnossienne No. 3); Peace (Gnossienne No. 2); Avec le Temps; D'Ou Venons-Nous (Gymnopedie No. 3); I Kiss Your Heart/Vexations; Never Broken (ESP); Rayga's Song (Gymnopedie No.1); If You Go Away/Ne Me Quitte Pas.

Personnel

Tessa Souter

vocals

Nadje Noordhuis

trumpet

Steve Wilson

saxophone

Luis Perdomo

piano

Billy Drummond

drums

Yasushi Nakamura

bass

Album Description

Acclaimed vocalist and lyricist Tessa Souter approaches the work of Erik Satie with jazz-inspired eloquence on Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project

Featuring Luis Perdomo (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), Billy Drummond (drums), Nadje Nordhuis (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Steve Wilson (soprano saxophone)

CD Release show at Joe’s Pub at 7PM on July 1, the exact date of the 100th anniversary of Erik Satie’s death

On Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project, her sixth album as a leader, Tessa Souter continues to explore her penchant for collaborating with a broad range of renowned composers, both living and dead. Celebrated for her “startlingly fresh and poetic lyrics” (Michael J. West, Washington City Paper), her words to Wayne Shorter’s “Ana Maria,” impressed the late composer so much, he granted her shared writing credit. Souter’s version of that song on her album Picture in Black and White attracted the attention of Kurt Elling who recorded it on his GRAMMY-nominated Wildflowers Volume 1 album. Her lyrics to Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” elicited a personal thank you letter from his daughter, Cecilia. Now, precisely 100 years after his death, she has turned her attention to the music of eccentric French composer, Erik Satie, appending her haunting lyrics to new incarnations of some of his best-known works.

Tessa Souter is a 2025 Artistic Projects Program grantee from Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.