FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Mafalda Minnozzi Sensorial: Portaits in Bossa & Jazz (MPI records)

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Mafalda Minnozzi
Sensorial: Portaits in Bossa & Jazz
(MPI records)

Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album
Album of the Year
Best Recording Package
Best Engineered Album
Best Short Form Music Video - "Samba Da Bençao"
https://youtu.be/LZIBl9RjBNY

Record of the Year - "A Felicidade"
Best Arrangement - "A Felicidade"
https://youtu.be/aU3ny3V1ha8

with;
Paul Ricci
Art Hirahara
Rogerio Boccato
Essiet Okon Essiet
Will Calhoun
Victor Jones
Harvie S

Recorded at Acoustic Sound Recording, Brooklyn
Mixed and mastered by Grammy winner David Darlington
Produced by Paul Ricci

Sensorial's debut was on the "New Music Monday" series on KUVO Jazz radio and was featured on "Bandcamp Weekly" and enjoyed extensive national airplay in the top 100 on the JazzWeek charts for 20 weeks earning Mafalda the Latin Jazz Artist of the month on Orlando's WUCF radio.

From track one's introductory phrase on Jobim's "A Felicidade" it is clear that this is not a typical Bossa nova project as the band turns up the both the tempo and the heat with the spontaneity and interplay of a jazz quintet and Mafalda is clearly the horn.

"As a vocalist, her technique is sublime; she sings not simply with facility, but with faculties, employing anatomical jurisdictions that only a handful of the top singers [in any style] do….she sings, vocalises wordlessly and makes her way through songs using "vocal percussion" to duel with the musicians and to have you at the edge of your seat – on "Chega de Saudade", for example.
Anyone who thinks that this hyperbole is itself unwarranted and over-the-top has only to listen to Miss Minnozzi interpret the aforementioned song and then follow that up with a wordless and breathy, version of Djavan's "Jogral" to listen to just how she can perform the most incredible vocalastics… And to follow that up with the most evocative version of Jobim's "Dindi" from an inspired, exceptionally bluesy arrangement certainly makes all of this music to absolutely die for."
- Raul Da Gama - latinjazznet.com

"The vibe on the recording is uplifting and evokes the aesthetic of Joao Gilberto beautifully.
He's smiling from the beyond"
- Bobby Sanabria (8x Grammy nominee and radio host at WBGO)

Video playlist of each song here;

1.A Felicidade
https://youtu.be/aU3ny3V1ha8
2.Vivo Sonhando
https://youtu.be/xNd6vLtZPCI
3.Morro Dois Irmaos
https://youtu.be/_R4cyjOmuLk
4.E Preciso Perdoar (Lonnie's Lament)
https://youtu.be/lWFupXo2VK8
5.Desafinado
https://youtu.be/V8Ab-Yb6nJQ
6.Mocidade
https://youtu.be/A2IjvcW2Fj4
7.Samba da Bençao
https://youtu.be/LZIBl9RjBNY
8.Once I Loved
https://youtu.be/FMS1zFmn6VM
9.Triste
https://youtu.be/An_sWU8vA6g
10.Chega de Saudade
https://youtu.be/k0B1zuDeKcI
11.Jogral
https://youtu.be/8pnBru4lsRQ
12.Un Altro Addio
https://youtu.be/mgJOO0SlAF4
13.Dindi
https://youtu.be/277UY2eO15A

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