A m poetical da musicalizing tsari, album na farko na Alex E. Chávez, Sonorous Present, yana ƙirƙirar sonic meditations game da rabuwa, gyarawa, da rabuwa fiye da ƙasa na Amurka, kamar yadda na asali da yanki. What began as an improvised performance in 2019 – inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez's award-winning book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke 2017) - an rarraba a matsayin studio album a girmama tare da Grammy Award-winning manufacturer Quetzal Flores.

Kama shekaru four a samar, Sonorous Present ne mai ban sha'awa bayani daga Chávez - artist, dalibai, da borderlands sonic theorist da aka sani don aiki na live da kuma a kan kayan tare da Dos Santos (International Anthem), Caramelo Haze (Nacional Records), Smithsonian Folkways, fiye da sabis tare da legendary Mexican poet da huapango musici Guillermo Velázquez, Grammy Award wins Quetzal da Grupo Fantasma, da kuma mutanen Grammy Award-named Black Pumas da Antibalas. A Sonorous Present, Chávez ya ba da dukan wadannan albarkatun kamar yadda ya rarraba matsaloli a cikin albarkatun da albarkatun da matsaloli na'urorinsa, mama, da na'urorinsa. Tsarin yana da kyau da matsaloli da aka rarraba daga cikin sunburst surreal na American music da kuma albarkatun albarkatun da aka ce ta hanyar kwarewa na albarkatun, rabuwa, da kuma kimiyya na mu'amala.

<pfseg id="0">Kumawa a Los Angeles da Chicago, matsakaici bincike na Mexican Regional da Latin American sauti da al'amari suna ƙunshi a Sonorous Present ta hanyar avant jazz shirye-shirye da al'amari, tare da al'amari da aka rubuta da kuma rubuta da manyan al'amari da al'amari Roger Reeves (Guggenheim fellow, National Book Award finalist, da Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award da Griffin Poetry Prize recipient). Tsarin luminary daga duniya na m Mexican son, jazz, da R&B - ciki har da, Martha Gonzalez (2022 MacArthur Fellow), Aloe Blacc (2015 Grammy Award nominee), Ramón Gutiérrez (of Son de Madera), da Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso (

Tare da ƙaddamarwa a yau, singa na album “cómplices de luto” (cómplices in mourning) yana samuwa a kan duk digital music yanar gizo, tare da wani kyau animated video shirye-shirye da Estudio Pneuma tare da Celestial Brizuela.

The song yana da duett vocals da Chávez da <pfseg id="0">Laura Cambrón—m son jarocho musici, masana'antu, da ma'aikata na Los Angeles da Chicago na Mexican folk music yanayi. A mataki huapango rhythm ra'ayin Cambrón da Chávez, da aka tafi tare da Matt Ulery's halitta sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'awar sha'

Hauntingly tender and at times cutting, Sonorous Present confidently places Chávez’s songcraft and lyricism on display, highlighting an assured, empathetic voice, as well as his seasoned musicianship and scholarly work. He elaborates the deep and multitudinous possibilities of grief and healing through verse, melody, and ethnographic songwriting. As Roger Reeves explains, “often, we think of elegies as commemorations, as moments of sadness, but really, an elegy is about the praise of something. You can’t mourn something you don’t love.”

Chávez’s first solo album is a tour de force marking a crucial moment in the career of an artist fully integrating all dimensions of his work and talents to reimagine the creative horizons of what a studio album can sound like and the multi-modal forms scholarship can take, all while boldly exploring the sonorous politics of borders.

Sonorous Present is out October 18th, 2024 through Artivist Entertainment.

<pfseg id="0">"Celebrity, sauki, "catalina" ne mai ban mamaki - Catalina - wanda ya zama matsaloli matsaloli na kasuwa a cikin shekaru 18. A song na matsaloli da matsaloli, Ina ji dadin cewa ba za a iya sayar da shi: "Dangane a cikin ku, dukkanku ba tare da ku; fiye da na'urorinku, na duba ku a cikin dukiya. "