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24 Sep

[ September 29th, 2023 release on Robalo Music: Sara Serpa & André Matos – Night Birds ]

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Night Birds, available September 29, 2023 on Robalo Music, establishes Serpa and Matos’ gifts as a creative and an expansive duo in a program of contrasting beauty and darkness, with mesmerizing and textural pieces featuring Dov Manski, Sofia Jernberg, Okkyung Lee and João Pereira.

“The duo excels at combining pure sounds- vowels, strings, words, horn, keys, breath and creating soothing, inspiring musical sketches.” – Suzanne Lorge, New York City Jazz Record

“The chemistry and teamwork are close to perfect. Matos’ delicate, lyrical electric guitar, intricate and hypnotic, is the perfect foil for Serpa’s mostly wordless vocals, which are cool, calm and precise.” – Allen Morrison, DownBeat Magazine

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28 Nov

[ December the 3rd,2021 release on Biophilia Records: Sara Serpa & Emmanuel Iduma – Intimate Strangers ]

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release date: 03.12.2021 on Biophilia Records

“A fresh and riveting presence on the vocal-jazz landscape.” –  Nate Chinen, JazzTimes
“ Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.”  – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

Intimate Strangers, due out December 3, 2021 via Biophilia Records, features vocalists Sara Serpa, Aubrey Johnson and Sofía Rei with pianist Matt Mitchell and synth player Qasim Naqvi, creating vivid soundscapes for stories from Emmanuel Iduma’s book A Stranger’s Pose

Album release concert Tuesday, December 14 at National Jazz Museum, Harlem

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09 Jun

[ Saturday and Sunday, June 12-13, 2021 – Mutual Mentorship for Musicians presents: virtual M³ festival via the National Jazz Museum in Harlem ]

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On Saturday and Sunday, June 12-13, the pioneering Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) initiative, co-founded by Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa to foster creative partnerships among woman musicians worldwide, presents six world premieres of collaborative work at a virtual M³ festival via the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Hosted by M³ Editor-in-Chief Jordannah Elizabeth, each premiere will be followed by a Q&A with the artists, who will answer questions from the audience about their creative process.  Register for these free streaming events here (June 12) and here (June 13).

M³ has also released The Art Of Being True: M³ Anthology of Writings, the first of a rare archive of writing that takes control of the narrative with regard to the work of underrepresented musicians. It is available for free from online literary arts publication, Publik / Private. 

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04 Jun

[ 5th of June 2020 release on Biophilia Records – Sara Serpa – Recognition ]

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release date: June 5, 2020 on Biophilia Records

“… a singular multimedia experience both spellbinding and haunting in nature … truly beyond category.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

“Recognition is an irreverent and poignant analysis of the place of memory … a sincere reflection on universal responsibility and social justice, Sara Serpa connects the past with the present, exposing the propaganda used by the Portugal’s fascist regime in its occupation of African nations.” – Bruno Duarte, art director and film production designer

“With Recognition, Sara Serpa looks deeply into the problems of colonialism, occupation, racism, and exploitation that have left a scar on human history and continue to impact our world today … Recognition is not only a brilliant artistic work, but an important offering that I hope will be viewed by audiences worldwide.” – trumpeter/vocalist/ composer Amir El-Saffar

“This is a fearless, exciting new work by an already remarkable artist pushing herself outside of her comfort zone from almost every angle.” – guitarist/composer Rafiq Bhatia

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