{"id":21800,"date":"2024-08-26T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21800"},"modified":"2024-08-26T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:11:11","slug":"alex-e-chavez-set-to-release-debut-solo-album-sonorous-present-in-october-listen-to-lead-single-complices-de-luto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21800","title":{"rendered":"Alex E. Ch\u00e1vez set to release debut solo album, Sonorous Present<\/em>, in October; listen to lead single ‘c\u00f3mplices de luto’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Treylegit<\/p><\/div>\n

Accomplished musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and scholar Alex E. Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> is perhaps best known as a member of Chicago-based Latinx quintet Dos Santos, but he has been involved with a multitude of other unique projects and stellar collaboration in the music world for over two decades. Ch\u00e1vez has announced the release of his debut solo album, Sonorous Present<\/em>, arriving on October 18th through Artivist Entertainment<\/a>. In the works for nearly four years, the album features Quetzal Flores on production duties, poetry from acclaimed author and poet Roger Reeves, field recordings, and guest contributions from the likes of Mexican poet and huapango musician Guillermo Vel\u00e1zquez, Martha Gonzalez, Aloe Blacc, Ram\u00f3n Guti\u00e9rrez, and Luci\u0301a Gutie\u0301rrez Rebolloso, amongst many others. Sonorous Present<\/em> embodies personal themes such as identity, borders, family, life and death, and is inspired by his book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribe\u00f1o<\/em> as well as by the lives and deaths of close family members.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with the album’s announcement, Ch\u00e1vez has unveiled the lead single ‘c\u00f3mplices de luto’ (accomplices in mourning), a beautiful, radiant and emotionally engaging track featuring duet vocals by Ch\u00e1vez and Laura Cambr\u00f3n. Of the song, Ch\u00e1vez comments:<\/p>\n

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“I wrote this song in the wake of my mother\u2019s passing, as I reflected on the final year of her life\u2014I was living and working in Mexico at that time, and so I didn\u2019t spend much time with her that year. I was angry and guilt-ridden about that for some time. And as I wrote, the image that lingered in my mind was of me as a child\u2014missing her when she way away, her warmth, her approval, her embrace. Writing through those feelings was necessary in my own grieving. Relatedly, in the video, the sense of longing is represented by the butterfly encountered by a figure who is crossing\u2014both the desert border, the river and the threshold between life and death.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘c\u00f3mplices de luto’ comes with an animated video directed by Estudio Pneuma in collaboration with Celestial Brizuela, and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n