ONTOLOGY (Deluxe) Roxana Amed

• 1 Tumbleweed 06:51
• 2 Chacarera para la Mano Izquierda 04:28
• 3 Peaceful 05:23
• 4 Virgo 05:31
• 5 Blue in Green (Sky and Sea) 05:45
• 6 Last Happy Hour 05:47
• 7 Milonga por la Ausencia 05:30
• 8 Ontology 04:10
• 9 El Regreso 05:42
• 10 Danza de la Moza Donosa, Opus 2 from Danzas Argentinas 04:51
• 11 Danza del viejo boyero, Opus 2 from Danzas Argentinas 04:15
• 12 Goodbye, Rose St. 03:11
• 13 Amor 06:46
• 14 Winter 04:10
• 15 Zamba para la Viuda 06:41
• 16 Love 06:46
• Total Runtime 01:25:47

Info for ONTOLOGY (Deluxe)

Isolation, nostalgia, a sense of not belonging, and living in the in-between are themes that have long resided in Roxana Amed’s songs. The Argentinean singer/songwriter’s latest full-length, Ontology, released by Sony Music Latin, is the culmination of a six-year journey filled with similar ruminations, leading Amed to reaffirm a musical identity unrestrained by genre or geography. “I ended up finding the spot where I should stand to watch myself as an Argentine artist and as a North American artist,” Amed reflected from home in Miami. “That is what I found that was ontologically happening with this music. I was standing on the fusion, on the confluence of these two worlds. In that sense I think this album is the one that best describes me.”

Born in Buenos Aires, Amed has been living stateside since 2013 and is acclaimed in her native country as one of the foremost jazz voices of our time, blending Argentine folk and rock with jazz, a distinction cemented by an eminent career comprised of six critically-acclaimed albums, a DVD, as well as countless performances, collaborations, and awards. Ontology, her seventh release, is a compendium of mostly original pieces created and performed during the last several years.

Framed mainly within a quintet setting, Ontology features bandmates – Martin Bejerano on piano, Mark Small on saxophone, Edward Perez on acoustic bass, and Ludwig Alfonso behind the trap set, as well as an assortment of other guest musicians as Rodolfo Zuniga on drums, Lowell Ringel and Carlo De Rosa on acoustic bass, Tim Jago and Aaron Lebos on electric guitar -masterfully coalescing around the singer, as she leads with her rich and deeply-rooted vocal instrument. Produced by Amed, the album was recorded in Miami’s iconic The Hit Factory/Criteria Recording Studios over three sessions beginning in March 2019 through August 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic. “It was stressful,” Amed recalled. “That whole process was not really happening all together in the same room. It felt interrupted and distant.”

Nonetheless, Ontology came together seamlessly – fourteen tracks fluidly crafted to swing and glide with Amed’s velvety vocals as the unifying force. Amed has mastered the art of laying no distinction bare in music. “My challenge was always trying to find a sound that could sound like jazz but in Spanish,” Amed said. “Where I could scat, but naturally. It was an exploration into both languages. I wanted them to live together in one album again.”

“One of the best jazz albums of 2021”. “This seventh album from the Buenos Aires-born, US-based singer-songwriter Roxana Amed presents a supremely atmospheric collection of 14 songs.” (Peter Quinn, Jazzwise, UK)

"It is as though Amed and her brilliant band have just invented jazz, and put a unique slant on it that is partly exhilarating Latin flights and partly the hushed, interval-leaping options of contemporary art music. It is not just sophisticated musically, but emotionally, primarily speaking to us from the abyss of love and death; leading us to complex places and leaving us there to find our own way home. Exceptional.” (John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Roxana Amed, vocals
Martin Bejerano, piano
Mark Small, saxophone (tracks 1 – 7, 7 – 9, 13)
Tim Jago, guitar (tracks 3, 5, 12)
Aaron Lebos, guitar (tracks 1, 13)
Edward Pérez, acoustic bass (tracks 1, 2, 6, 9)
Lowell Ringel, acoustic bass (tracks 3, 5, 12)
Carlo De Rosa, electric bass (track 13), double bass (track 7)
Rodolfo Zúñiga, drums (tracks 3, 5, 11, 12)
Ludwig Afonso, drums (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 13)

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