Marina Albero
Musician
Photo by Jean Paul Builes
Marina Albero
Marina is decidedly one of the rarest improvisational artists of our time. It's relevant in the human experience today because what reflects an awakened emotional soundscape as she engages you. It's movement that is necessary yet strikingly a familiarity we have forgotten.
The complexity of the sounds out of every key has not one identity but multiple characteristics in relation to another, it leaves you wondering what is even happening and in what genre you are listening to anymore.
With her self-released 3-CD set “A Life Soundtrack”, Marina Albero has composed an intimate biography in the musical languages of old Europe, modern Spain, 1990’s Cuba and the US of today. Comfortable in the syntax and idioms of baroque, flamenco, son and American jazz, Albero shares chapters on learning, love, loss, and life that will move and inspire you. Her musical story has been captivating audiences and musicians around the Northwest since she moved to Seattle in 2015.
Presenting new Album "Don't Explain" May 20th at The Triple Door.
The awarded project 'Don't Explain"- "Concert of the Year" (2022), is now materialized as an album.
My beloved friend and collaborator Jacqueline Tabor has found in the music of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday the best way to tell her own life story.
It is a great honor to be by her side in this vulnerable journey that started back in 2020 when we spent countless Sunday sharing our fears, joys and sorrows.
That led to the music and we premiered the show in a livestream format as a duo.
The Earshot Jazz Festival performance in 2022 was the first experience with an audience that connected with our message in ways we couldn't have ever imagined.
From there, always slow and organically paced, we decided to continue presenting and evolving the show until we took the major step of recording it with the incredibly generous support of a few individuals who became our patrons on this adventure.
In September of 2024, the Jack Straw cultural center gave us a grant to record in their studio for a few hours. That was the perfect setup as the quartet was together in one room playing it as a live concert, no edits no overdubs, just the honest sound of the band performing all at once!
Please join us in this celebration of life and music. A concert that reflects the hardship and joy of being a Black American singer, woman and activist.
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Thanks for your support! Salut i alegria
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Sharing my musical journey and studies
I believe that Music is easy and fun to make. I also know how it can take a whole life mastering it!
As a child, music was a natural language to me and now, after years in classical and improvisation training, teaching and performing, my approach is to start creating from day one while we naturally learn about music's structure and architecture.
My passion is taking music back into your hands to channel, create and heal or just to have fun.
Music is a social connector, a balsam for our hearts and a safe place to experience and explore your own voice. It is your choice stay in that one note or move on to the next. Oh, and it's risk-free. Wanna try?
ALBUMS AND DOWNLOADS
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Get your CD or your vinyl in you mailbox or I'll send it to whoever you wish!
Also, download these two unreleased tracks for free!!
A life Soundtrack
Triple CD awarded as Best Record of 2019 by Earshot Jazz. Recorded between Barcelona (Volume 1, 2008) and Seattle (Volumes 2 and 3 in 2018). STREAMING in all platforms now!!
Support makes music happen!
"A Life Soundtrack" has been an ongoing project and it keeps being a work in progress about my own journey. In 2017 I launched a Patreon page under that title where, thanks to my subscribers, we built a library with hours of exclusive music content that keeps growing every month. Join now and become an active part of the process! Thank you for listening, feeling and enjoying.
SoundCloud Archives
For a few years I realized how hard it was for me releasing music so I started a record label (Elukeya, 2005) and an online archives site where to have a sort of SoundLog. Mikrotunes, pre productions, unreleased tracks and other surprises. Always for free and CC license, so use them if you want!
Some videos
What they say about Marina
Inventive and effusive
An inventive and effusive pianist and composer.
– KNKX jazz public radio
KNKX
Public Radio
Boundless Virtuosity
Boundless virtuosity and spirit abound in the piano bass duo of Marina Albero and Jeff Johnson.
The Stranger
Seattle Newspaper
She's actually improvising!
Marina Albero is a piano virtuoso. At times it seems like she’s playing the most polished standards – like she’s memorized Mozart back and forth – but in fact she’s actually improvising.
– Jake Uiti, Artist Home
Jake Uiti
Artist Home