Music / jazz

Ámbar


Reviews (2)


JazzTimes

d. 27. May 2019

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Andrew Gilbert

d. 27. May 2019

"A strikingly crafted project created in close collaboration with Israeli bassist Noam Wiesenberg, who wrote the arrangements, Ámbar features Meza's rhythmically supple string-quartet-and-rhythm-section Nectar Orchestra. From the first track, "Kallfu," one of six originals on the album, she casts a spell with an arresting amalgam of Latin American, jazz, and chamber-pop influences. Whether she's getting Björkish on her song "Awaken" or making Pat Metheny and David Bowie's "This Is Not America" sound like an anguished response to the evening news, each piece recalibrates the particular mix of elements. As a composer, she writes songs, like the surging title track, shaped around her vocal strength".


DownBeat

2019 June

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Carlo Wollf

2019 June

"Camila Meza's voice puts me in mind of Miles Davis, which is odd because her music is nothing like his. Ámbar, her fourth solo album, is lush and light-footed, full of chamber-style string writing and grounded in the music of South America, all qualities not normally associated with Davis. And yet, there's something about the resolute straightness of her sound, and the way it manages to be so emotionally expressive with so little vibrato, that seems completely of a piece with Davis' aesthetic. Mainly, it's a matter of confidence: Like Davis, Meza seems so sure of her approach - her pitch, her diction, her understanding of the lyric - that any additional ornamentation would be overkill".