Clarice Assad, Sergio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, celebrated Brazilian guitarist Sérgio Assad, and his daughter, the vibrant vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Clarice Assad, “a veritable musical dynamo” (San Francisco Classical Voice), join forces for a collaboratively written program conjuring a dozen universal archetypes — timeless characters shared by cultures around the globe.

Figures such as the Rebel, Lover, Magician, Jester, Hero, and Explorer come to life in 12 short works melding imaginative chamber music with Latin jazz rhythms. The adventurous percussion ensemble’s vast color palette, Sérgio Assad’s unparalleled guitar mastery, and Clarice Assad’s diverse artistic contributions create striking musical portraits. Boston Classical Review proclaimed “each piece cast a vivid impression of its respective theme…. The performers played with verve, revealing the music’s power to convey the traits underlying ancient, eternal ideas.”

It’s rare, especially in the music broadly characterized as classical, to find music that’s genuinely collaborative at its core. For the most part, collaborations ornament the work of one creative figure with contributions from another, but this release from the father-and-daughter Latin jazz guitarists Sérgio and Clarice Assad and the avant-garde Third Coast Percussion Ensemble manages the trick. It helps that the musicians’ backgrounds overlap somewhat; Clarice has a composition master’s degree, and Third Coast, which played clubs earlier in its career, certainly is literate in jazz rhythms and forms, but this does not prepare the listener for how confidently this music flows. The 12 archetypes of the title are, in the words of the players, “ancient, universal patterns of human behavior,” with each piece aptly evoking “The Magician,” “The Jester,” “The Hero,” and so on. The various elements of style here are woven together in distinctive ways that suggest the idea being portrayed. Some of the pieces are composed by Sérgio or Clarice, and some by members of Third Coast, and the division is audible but not strongly apparent. Jazz is used for the more animated archetypes, but in each case, there is full participation by all the musicians, and the considerable virtuosity of the Third Coast Percussion Ensemble is on display. This is something of a landmark in what used to be called Third Stream music, the fusion of classical music and jazz.

Tracklist:
1. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: I. The Rebel (04:24)
2. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: II. The Innocent (04:07)
3. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: III. The Orphan (04:29)
4. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: IV. The Lover (05:03)
5. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: V. The Magician (04:21)
6. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: VI. The Ruler (05:16)
7. Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: VII. The Jester (02:59)
8. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: VIII. The Caregiver (04:23)
9. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: IX. The Sage (05:24)
10. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: X. The Creator (05:03)
11. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: XI. The Hero (03:34)
12. Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes: XII. The Explorer (05:07)

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