The album Insónia is credited to two musicians being Tiago Sousa & João Correia from Portugal, though the music is compossed by Tiago Sousa and he got helped by João Correia on the parts of drums. On the disc I have here are seven pieces of music in written in a traditional classical way for guitar, piano, organ but spiced up with drums.
Sousa's interest for the music written by Erik Satie and Claude Debussy is a given fact and while listening to the music this is directly clear. Minimal, though melodic pieces of piano music appear on this album. An intimate feeling is created. But the music does not always stick to this, for example in the first piece Movimento the first minutes we hear a soft piano piece, which turns into an acoustic guitar piece with a big influence from Robbie Basho's folk style. And when we near the end things get nasty. The acoustic guitar is detuned and a dissonant simple melody is filled in with a haunting organ and minimal drums. The first time you hear this it is quite annoying how the dissonant tones float, but it is clear this has been done on purpose. Finally things turn into a soft ending.
Through out the album similar pieces return, but always with a different twist to it.
Sousa really distinguishes from other musicians in the same field due to the drums in the music. It puts the accents at exactly the right pieces. Specially in the parts where they go free. For example in the piece Folha Caduca the tension is accented a lot by the drums. And when near the end also the clarinet is added a very special atmosphere is set.
Some of the themes return with small changes, making the album sound as a whole. And always the influence from Satie in mind.
Tiago Sousa managed to make a good album which easily could fit in the (modern) classical music collection, but with the same ease wouldn't be misplace in the ambient or jazz world.
I limited vinyl release, which comes with a recommendation.
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