ANGST - Essays on the ephemeral being by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:39:01Z After 2015’s Um Piano nas Barricadas (Discrepant, CREP23) 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 8 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. Recorded, mixed and mastered by André Fernandes at Timbuktu Studios Composition and piano: Tiago Sousa Clarinet: Ricardo Ribeiro Percussion: Baltazar Molina Vibraphone: Paulo Santo Artwork: Evan Crankshaw Genre Classical Contains tracks overture by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:38:59Z the myth of sisyphus by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:38:58Z the unbearable lightness of being by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:38:56Z quietude by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:38:55Z being-towards-death by tiagosousa published on 2019-02-25T12:38:54Z