Felipe Salles, The New Immigrant Experience | The Vinyl Anachronist

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  Felipe Salles and his new project The New Immigrant Experience isn’t the first time we’ve had a large scale jazz recording that documented the experiences of DACA “Dreamers.” Back in 2018 I reviewed the John Daversa Big Band’s American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom, an equally sprawling composition that went on to win a Grammy. American Dreamers combined music and spoken word pieces from the Dreamers themselves, which was extremely poignant but could be, on occasion, a little too on the nose. Felipe Salles, I believe, goes one step further by relying completely upon his musical compositions to tell the story–at least part of the way. Felipe Salles, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow who emigrated to the US from Brazil in 1995, started performing The New Immigrant Experience more than two years ago with the 18-piece Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble . Since then the work has been augmented with videos of interviews Salles conducted with nine Dreamers where they discuss what it was like growing up “bilingual and undocumented.” This new release features two CDs that cover the approximately 90-minute work, and a DVD that shows the performance in its multi-media format with the videos. I brought up […]

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