ANGST, by Tiago Sousa

ANGST

by Tiago Sousa

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1.	Overture 05:14	buy track
2.	The Myth of Sisyphus 04:41	buy track
3.	The Unbearable Lightness of Being 04:29	buy track
4.	Quietude 02:53	buy track
5.	Being Towards Death 11:11	buy track
6.	The Lost of One's Self 07:20	buy track
7.	Amor Fati 04:06	buy track
8.	Angst is the Dizziness of Freedom 04:48	buy track

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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 (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.

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released February 26, 2021

Recorded, mixed and mastered by André Fernandes at Timbuktu Studios
Artistic direction: Tiago Sousa and Marco Franco
Composition and piano: Tiago Sousa
Clarinet: Ricardo Ribeiro
Percussion: Baltazar Molina
Vibraphone: Paulo Santo
Artwork: Evan Crankshaw

Thanks to all our friends and family, special thanks to Marco Franco, André Fernandes, Gonçalo Cardoso and OUT.RA Associação Cultural.

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