Press Release by: Cary Goldberg
Lucia Pulido, the critically acclaimed Colombian singer whose work is noted for its
fusion of the traditional with the experimental, has signed with Adventure Music,
announced label co-owner Richard Zirinsky, Jr. The label will release Pulido's Waning
Moon on September 16.
Pulido was a featured vocalist on Adventure Music's 2007 release, Contemporary
America. In its review of the CD, The Instrumental Observer said, "Lucia Pulido opens
the disc with her haunting vocals, and shows a talent of rare profundity and breadth."
The music on Waning Moon is rooted in traditional songs from Pulido's homeland of
Colombia. In collaboration with the cadre of players from the New York music scene
who join her for this project, Pulido has taken those traditions beyond the
definitions of world music to create a sonic synthesis that truly epitomizes the
country's traditions in flux. In addition to Pulido's musical director, the guitarist
Sebastian Cruz, Waning Moon features the talents of long-time associate, bassist Stomo
Takeishi (Myra Melford, Topaz,) drummer Ted Poor (Cuong Vu,) and clarinetist and
flutist Adam Holker (Bruce Barth, Ray Baretto, Marc Cohn.)
With one of the richest voices on the international Latin American musical scene
today, Lucia Pulido has mined the musical traditions of her native Colombia and other
Latin American countries in an ongoing search for a distinct, experimental style, and
has participated in various projects, ranging from traditional Colombian music to jazz
and "Nueva Cancion" (New Song). Traditional genres such as cumbia and bullerengue
from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos of the
Colombian Eastern Plains are the point of departure for musical creativity.
For more than ten years, Pulido was one half of the duo "Ivan y Lucia," along with
the singer and songwriter Ivan Benavides, with whom she recorded three albums between
1986 and 1991.
Since moving to New York City in 1994, Pulido's musical compass has been focused on
an experimental approach to traditional Colombian rhythms and songs. In 1995 she
recorded her first solo CD, Lucia, with the Colombian recording company Sonolux,
distributed in the USA by Sony. In 2000, together with the Japanese percussionist
Satoshi Takeishi, she recorded Religious and Pagan songs from Colombia for the German
label Intuition, and in 2004 she recorded Dolor de Ausencia, a selection of classic
Latin American songs of broken love, which was released by the label FM in Colombia.
In 2005, together with Argentinean guitarist Fernando Tarres, she recorded Songbook I
and Songbook II for BAU Records. In addition, she has performed and recorded with such
diverse jazz musicians as Ed Simon, Dave Binney, and Erik Friedlander.
Adventure Music is home to a host of acclaimed acoustic artists, including such
Brazilian and South American musicians as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ricardo Silveira, the
late Moacir Santos, Tom Lellis, Jovino Santos Neto, Hamilton De Holanda, Mario Adnet,
Marcos Amorim, as well as bluegrass and newgrass releases from label co-founder Mike
Marshall, with Darol Anger, Psychograss and the Swedish new traditionalists Vasen. In
addition to Waning Moon, Adventure's fall release schedule includes CDs from Jovino
Santos Neto and Weber Iago (Live at Caramoor), and Tom Lellis and Tonhinho Horta
(Tonight,) as well as Boogie Woogie Meets Samba, which features Ze Rentao, Mario
Adnet, Monica Salmaso, Maucha Adnet, Roberta Sa, and many others. Adventure Music
America's releases for the fall include Shannon By the Sea from Eva Scow and Dusty
Brough, and Midnight Clear, holiday music performed by Mike Marshall on solo acoustic
guitar.
For additional information, please visit www.adventure-music.com, and www.luciapulido.com.
For more information: Adventure Music