Since four years of intense musical complicity, which started in Barcelona, the Luxemburgish doublebass player Marc Demuth and the Portuguese singer Sofia Ribeiro have been developing common musical projects that performed through jazz clubs and festivals in Spain, Portugal, Holland, Luxembourg, France, Germany and U.S.A. A strong and successful collaboration that resulted in the recording of their first CD called “Dança da Solidão", live at the “L’Inoui” (Luxembourg) in October 2005.
This duo of young and very talented musicians with a solid jazz background lead us to an intimate journey into the world of composers of different styles, going from jazz standards to brazilian music, with some incursions on pop music and also the portuguese fado, with personal arrangements adapted to this peculiar setting. Details, humor and silence are gaining importance, with a lot of improvisation and communication between these two instruments that, beside being in opposite extremes of range, complement each other.
PRESS
"Here are well-known songs given new life by Sofia's beautiful voice and Marc's virtuosity. You'll want to listen to them again and again and you'll quickly understand the growing success of the band here and across Europe."
By Paula Telo Alves, "Contacto" (Luxembourg), about “Dança da Solidão”
"The intimacy she (Sofia) seeks is of another kind, perhaps more poetic, as in the manner in which she speaks the words and sings the lyrics. Such an expressive approach to singing poems and not only lyrics is evident in “Não é fácil o amor “, which is a hard poem to sing and I believe is even harder for a jazz singer to sing. Such beautiful interpretation! (…) She revealed a technically and emotionally irreproachable interpretation of standards: a magnificent “Angel Eyes” and an exquisite and touching “Blame it on my youth”. Sofia seems to infuse the lyrics with emotion and soul and not simply sing the melodies, and this makes all the difference. An excellent debut record for a Portuguese jazz singer!”
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Merci Sofia & Marc de votre amical encadrement par le biais de votre regard sur notre programme JAZZBOX http://www.aligrefm.org où nous espérons fortement vous accueillir un jour prochain... Bonjour de Paris!!! Jacques Thévenet http://www.radiojazz.ch
Happy New Year!!! Je ne sais pas si tu te souviens de moi,on s'est rencontrés au Luxembourg il y a quelques mois autour d'un verre avec Michel Reis. Je tiens à te remercier pour le CD que tu m'as donné ce même soir car j'ai un réel plaisir à l'écouter,Sofia a une vraie voix de velours qui se marie à merveille avec le son envôutant de sa 'Band!!!' lol Où en êtes -vous avec vos concerts? A bientôt, Magali
Ola Sofia, Ola Marc! Gosto muito do vosso trabalho! Ainda nao tive o prazer de vos ver ao vivo! Quando e que passam na Holanda? Mais uma vez parabens e, espero eu, ate breve! abracos, magda
I really liked your concert @ Hopper last wednesday! I really look forward to seeing you in duo, I'll try to make it to one of your next gigs.
Hope to see you soon!
Hey, merci fir den add. Hoffen bei dir leeft alles gudd. Mir sichen eng plaatz wou mer eng kéier kéinten zou Letzebuerg spillen, vläicht kenns du eng gudd plaatz?
Hoffen bis geschwenn eng kéier, an so mer bescheed wanns de spills, kommen gär lauschteren...
Bis dann Jérome
