We Never Change
🔀 SS #107 • Jonathan Ferr, Feist, Jason Mraz, Murray Fredericks, and more.
💽 » Liberdade, by Jonathan Ferr
r&b, jazz, soul • 10 songs • 35 minutes
When I recommended Jonathan Ferr’s sophomore album A Cura (2021), I had a feeling that that was not going to be the last time I talked about him around here.
With his third studio album Liberdade, Ferr created a body of work that distances itself a little bit from the minimalist and instrumental approach from his previous record, this time inviting various singers to collaborate throughout the album’s track list, making each song its own little universe.
While you can still hear Ferr’s delicate and skillful piano playing, Liberdade explores a variety of genres from r&b to neo-soul, to rap and hip-hop without ever losing its coherence as a whole.
🎶 » Hiding Out In The Open, by Feist
5 years after her last studio album Pleasure (2017), Canadian singer-songwriter Feist (who you may know from her smash-hit 1234) is back with 3 new singles from her upcoming new album Multitudes, out April 14th. From this first batch of new songs, Hiding Out in The Open got a great music video to accompany the track, and got me super excited for the rest of the album.
🎶 » I Feel Like Dancing, by Jason Mraz
Another recent pleasant surprise was the return of singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. Not that he has been away for too long but, at least for me, his new single I Feel Like Dancing, feels a bit closer to the Mraz I used to enjoy from his first three studio albums, before his music took a slightly different turn. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until June 23rd to listen to Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride and find out if the rest of the album will follow the same direction of this deliciously catchy first single.
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⚡️ Visual Inspiration
Murray Fredericks is an Australian Photographer once known for his black-and-white images of mountains and wilderness, now best known for a series of color photographs and a documentary film, Salt(2009), whose subject is South Australia’s Lake Eyre’s epic, often haunting images, capturing the lake’s thick, salt-encrusted surface. Check out his website or Instagram for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
this week’s new albums I'm curious to check out
Also, new singles from Arlo Parks, Portugal The Man, Yves Tumor, and many more. If you’re curious to hear some of these songs and more, make sure to follow my 2023 playlist on Spotify, updated weekly with new releases:
I LOVED Salt!! I am always blown away by the thing I don’t know. And I am a HUGE fan of Jason Mraz’s music on his first two LPs.
Hey Leo, I hope you are well! Have you gotten to check out the new Substack Notes yet? Would love to see you there!