Vibrações de Prata, by XEXA

Vibrações de Prata

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1.	Libelula 02:07		buy track
2.	Nha Dêdê 02:35		buy track
3.	Fragmented Breath 02:21		buy track
4.	Silver 02:01	lyrics	buy track
Blood is heavier than My blood My blood is heavier than silver My blood is Heavy My blood is heavier than silver
5.	Assim 02:08	lyrics	buy track
Vejo o sol Nas planícies Do teu olhar O que vejo nas Planícies do Teu olhar? A saudade E'amargura De me veres Bazar Assim não dá Assim não dá Assim não dá Estás tão longe Quero te abraçar Estás tão longe Quero te olhar Te'amarrar Assim não dá Assim não dá Assim não dá Como dói ( background) Estou frágil, estado frágil ( background)
6.	Sisters Dancing 01:48		buy track
7.	Prendes Nh'alma 02:29	lyrics	buy track
E o teu aspeto Prendeu a minha alma
8.	SectionAudio 02:19		buy track
9.	Clarinet Mood 09:37		buy track

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This is a presentation of Xexa's different sensibilities as a composer, musician and sound designer, mapping what are in effect her initial explorations with voice, rhythms, synths, ambience, ever searching for an organic final result. As a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) between 2019 and a still fresh 2023, she presented in her third year a portfolio that included what we can now listen as "Clarinet Mood", the final track on "Vibrações De Prata". Her intention was to «study the feeling of listening to music as an environment one inhabits and not as a sound that follows you throughout the day. Walk into, instead of listening to, an ambience». With no previous clarinet training, Xexa explores its palpable sound as a physical doorway to this realm.

Four other tracks ("Assim", "Nha Dêdê", "Fragmented Breath" and "Prendes Nh'Alma") formed part of what she named the 2021 Sound Calendar. Out of a (natural) total of 12 compositions, these four connect with other intimate moments to tell a broader story, one of fragility, «like a flower about to bloom, we can detect first glimpses of colour and form but can't yet divine its final form».

This sort of imaginative sonic micro-management can also be found on "Libelula", where the synth attempts to recreate the beating of a dragonfly's wings. Minute details are a major feature in jewelry, an art Xexa studied in her native Lisbon's António Arroio school. Free spirited as she is, Lisbon is merely a geographical location where she was born, no particular feeling of being Portuguese attached to her position in the world. So far, Xexa's origins in São Tomé and Príncipe and a prolonged stint in London (it feels prolonged, at such a young age) are the two other major environments that form her experience as a human being but also as an artist. We are extremely proud to have been able to access truly special creative, intimate moments and help bring out into the world this physical manifestation of beautiful contemporary music.

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released October 27, 2023

All acoustic and electronic instrumentation by XEXA
Written and produced by XEXA
Mastered by Tó Pinheiro da Silva
Artwork by Márcio Matos

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