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01. Tiago Sousa - Overture
02. Tiago Sousa - The Myth Of Sisyphus
03. Tiago Sousa - The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
04. Tiago Sousa - Quietude
05. Tiago Sousa - Being-Towards-Death
06. Tiago Sousa - The Lost Of One's Self
07. Tiago Sousa - Amor Fati
08. Tiago Sousa - Angst Is The Dizziness Of Freedom
ARTIST
TITLE
Angst
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CREP 082CD CREP 082CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2021

Enter, Angst a series of musical "essays on the ephemeral being" by Portuguese pianist and composer Tiago Sousa. After 2015's Um Piano nas Barricadas (CREP 023LP, 2016) Sousa expands his compositional chops by writing and performing along with a trio made of clarinet, percussion and vibraphone adding a magical realism aura to the music. It was fate that the releasing of these compositions would arrive in one of the most troubled passages of recent memory, just as a new decade begins. If it was already established that anguish is one of the hallmarks haunting our modern era, these last few years expose this existential feeling with even greater urgency. The album that Tiago now presents, part angst part nostalgic escapism addresses this very modern concern as well as other themes dear to the so-called existentialist thinkers such as Heidegger, Camus or Kierkegaard, who among others, seek to directly challenge the Being with various concepts such as Repetition, Temporality, Interiority, Despair... Throughout the eight themes here presented, a delicate attempt is made to sketch a phenomenological cartography through its content and form, loosely describing the feeling of being launched into the wide world and the discovery of one self. In other words, the artist's aim here is to convey the growing pains that the whole question about the meaning of life throws at us. In an approach that is difficult to catalogue, the album tries to avoid genres and crystallizations in which music presents itself as a vehicle to express the ineffable and the incommunicable, expressing instead a magical world of wonder and enchantment.