EPISTOLA@PRMO - VPRO VRIJEGELUIDEN-AMSTERDAM-NL

Today we are in Amsterdam-NL recording a Tv session at Bimhuis for‪#‎vprovrijegeluiden‬ with Theo Pascal, Carmen Souza, Shane Forbes and Nathaniel Facey...EPISTOLA is here! Will be out soon here: http://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden

Carmen Souza@Jazzahead!

Carmen Souza & Theo Pascal New Cd EPISTOLA will be release this week at JAZZAHEAD!
The concert will be streamed live at ARTLIVEWEB - http://concert.arte.tv/fr/jazzahead
On stage with Carmen and Theo will be Shane Forbes on Drums and Nathaniel Facey on Sax.
At Jazzahead we will be at BRITISH JAZZ stand 6B17 and JAZZAHEAD showcase artist stand
6C16.

JAZZAHEAD!

JAZZAHEAD director advises the public to go and see Carmen Souza & Theo Pascal
on the 25 Apr at European Jazz meeting night....we agree! :)

http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-kultur-freizeit_artikel,-Jazzahead-Tipps-vom-Profi-_arid,1103985.html

Carmen Souza@NISVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL in Serbia for the first time!!!

Carmen Souza is coming to Serbia for the first time:

























http://www.telegraf.rs/english/1516026-after-her-jazz-wont-be-the-same-carmen-souza-arrives-in-nisville-photo-video

EPISTOLA@jazz.pt-Portugal

Epistola heard by the only Jazz Magazine in Portugal - Jazz.pt:

"Os temas são cantados em Crioulo, Português, Francês e Inglês, seguindo precisamente o espírito do world jazz. Além dos fundamentos africanos e dos formatos do bop e do pós-bop (na promoção do CD são mesmo reivindicadas as influências de John Coltrane e Ornette Coleman), são também detectáveis referências na MPB, um ou outro padrão rítmico latino e algumas das atmosferas do jazz português, ou não tivessem as carreiras de Souza e Pascal arrancado no nosso país....nunca jazz e Cabo Verde estiveram tão juntos como aqui desde que Silver lembrou as suas origens." 

Rui Eduardo Paes, jazz.pt

http://jazz.pt/ponto-escuta/2015/04/07/carmen-souza-theo-pascal-epistola-jazz-pilon/

EPISTOLA advance reviews....

First Reviews for EPISTOLA:

"Theo Pascal and Carmen Souza are plainly on a roll and long may it continue…

throughout “Epistola” Pascal is superb whether on electric or upright bass; the album ends with a cover version of “Moonlight Serenade” that is just wonderful. This old chestnut by Glenn Miller with lyrics by Mitchell Parish dates from a period in jazz that is much derided but with Souza’s hushed, heartfelt vocals and acoustic guitar, Pascal’s melodic electric bass combined with percussion that keeps tempo much faster than previous versions such as Sinatra’s, this closing track showcases these musicians at their incandescent best. To sum up, the music on “Epistola” is inventive, joyous, characterised by lightness of touch leaving virtually everyone else in the shade."

Ben Robertson, Africanjazz.net (UK)

“This new album is “a letter with sound addressed to anyone who is ready to receive it”; I say we all need to be ready to receive if only to feel we have listened to a magnificent rendition of how music and words can work together so well, they create poetry...another collaboration between Carmen Souza and Theo Pascal - Praise the Heavens for that! With a voice like Carmen and the bass playing like Theo, we cannot go wrong."

Erminia Yardley, UKvibe.org (UK)

“Carmen Souza and Theo Pascal reveal with majesty and rhapsody the radiant beauty of this music…Such is the visceral intensity of this music-making that a certain girding of the loins may be required before you listen (to this music) again and again… and again…”

Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network (USA)

"Carmen Souza et Theo Pascal nous écrivent de merveilleuses

cartes postales musicales..."

Jean-Jacques Dikongué, Tribune2Lartist (FR)