{"id":10081,"date":"2018-08-27T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2018-08-28T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:15:41","slug":"monday-recommendation-luciana-souza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/08\/monday-recommendation-luciana-souza\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Luciana Souza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday Recommendation: Luciana Souza<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2PGseid\"><em>The Book Of Longing<\/em><\/a> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/61rLnhzA3L._SX522_-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/61rLnhzA3L._SX522_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/61rLnhzA3L._SX522_-1.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/61rLnhzA3L._SX522_-1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>Returning to recording, Luciana Souza is inspired by poetry. <em>The Book Of Longing<\/em> finds her drawing inspiration from poets of two centuries and singing three new songs of her own. Bassist Scott Colley and Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro accompany her, enhancing the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moods, using counterpoint as commentary. Both solo with distinction. Colley is notably effective in Ms. Souza\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These Things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which has a nifty reference to Robert Frost. Pinheiro finds a rhythmic groove in Dickinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Grow Accustomed To The Dark\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1864). Ms. Souza\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sources range from the 18th century to the 21st and include not only her work, but also Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson and the late singer-poet-novelist Leonard Cohen. Christina Rosetti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remember\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1861) ends the album. It is a lyrical instruction for thinking \u00e2\u20ac\u201dor not thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u201dabout her after she dies.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Souza\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musicianship and sensitivity are as remarkable as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Recommendation: Luciana Souza, The Book Of Longing (Sunnyside) Returning to recording, Luciana Souza is inspired by poetry. The Book Of Longing finds her drawing inspiration from poets of two centuries and singing three new songs of her own. Bassist Scott Colley and Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro accompany her, enhancing the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moods, using counterpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}