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New Album "A Nomad of Sound" out November 3rd. Booking for 2025 open now!
I am in the midst of traveling to Cuba and relocating from Seattle to New Orleans.
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December 2024 & January 2025
Albero's in Cuba little tour | more details TBA
11 January 2025
COS.MO.SIS | Venue TBD, New Orleans (LA)
Videos
KNKX Studio Session Dec'19
Marina Albero: Piano and composition
Hans Teuber: Sax
Jeff Johnson: Bass
Jeff Busch: Drums
KANTIGA
Made by Alberocoque around eastern Washington, 2109
Albums
"A Nomad of Sound"
Self Release November 3rd 2024
Photo by Lisa Hagen-Glynn
Press Release by Nathan Bluford
A Nomad of Sound, written and recorded during a self-designed musical residency in New Orleans in early 2024, is the overture to an ambitious new chapter in jazz pianist Marina Albero’s lifelong musical travelogue.
The album will be self-released on November 3rd at a performance by Albero in the closing days of Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival. It will initially be available on CD and digital music platforms, with a vinyl pressing soon to follow. Albero’s previous album A Life Soundtrack (2019, also self-released) spent five weeks on the national jazz charts, where it peaked at #23.
A Nomad of Sound was engineered, mixed and mastered by top producer Justin Armstrong. The album’s six tracks feature several diverse lineups of predominantly NOLA-based musicians, including bassist Amina Scott, drummer Pedro Segundo, and Cuban multi-instrumentalist Yusa. Albero’s daughter Serena contributes vocals in English, Spanish and Catalan.
Stylistically, A Nomad of Sound wanders as freely as its creator, delivering contemplative pieces for jazz quintet, a hard-driving Latin number, and a New Orleans style funeral march on which Albero’s fiery keytar excursions conduct a full brass band. Recording sessions took place at New Orleans’ Marigny Studios and Ellis Marsalis Center, where Albero had the honor of playing on the late master’s piano.
Raised in her native Spain among a traveling musical family, Albero relocated to Seattle with her two children in 2014. Over the next ten years, she built a devoted local community through her joyous performances and worked as a piano instructor at Cornish College of the Arts. Her industrious musical output has repeatedly won recognition from Seattle improvised music institution Earshot Jazz, including two Golden Ear awards for Musician of the Year (2019 and 2022), one for Acoustic Ensemble of the Year (2021, for the Marina Albero Trio), and one for Album of the Year (2019, for A Life Soundtrack).
"A life Soundtrack"
Self Released 2019
BEST RECORD 2019 “GOLDEN EAR"
10 weeks on Jazz National Charts
1 week #25 at Jazz National Charts
With her self-released 3-CD set “A Life Soundtrack” (December 2019), 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 classical, 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.
“A life Soundtrack” began with 12 live performance videos produced in 2017 for her followers on Patreon.com/marinalbero. You can also find a related project, “Mikrotunes”, on Soundcloud where she released micro compositions regularly (2010-2011). For the first time, Albero crosses the online border to make a 3-CD set that covers the landscape of her journey so far.
Volume #1 “Albero” was recorded in 2008 in Barcelona with her friends and family. Produced by herself and Chano Dominguez, each tune is a moment at a window in her home where it was recorded; sometimes looking out; sometimes looking in.
Volume #2 “Agua” is an all improvised work. Like water, Albero adapts herself to the territory, flows from shore to shore, from the mountain springs to the rushing rivers, stays in the still iced waters and travels to the warm Caribbean, it sometimes sounds like the hidden rainforest waterfall, other times like the water drops falling from the ceiling of a cave.. As Bruce Lee said, “Be water, my friend”. On three tracks, the unique and generous musicality of Hans Teuber creates a complete new soundscape to explore.
Volume #3 “Music is Love” is a gratitude musical statement. Gratitude towards music and all that it brings to Marina’s life. Friends, connections, learning, challenges, healing, emotions, feelings, thrives, family… LOVE. On this record, Albero plays originals and jazz standards with her Seattle band and her kids who are also musicians. Backing her up, the band is a gathering of incredibly talented artists: Jeff Johnson, Hans Teuber, Jeff Busch and D’Vonne Lewis honor with their presence a playful space for music.
Personnel in "Music is Love":
Hans Teuber: Saxophones(s), flute(s), clarinet(s)
Jeff Johnson: Bass
D’Vonne Lewis: Drums
Jeff Busch: Percussion
Special Guests: Serena Albero on vocals and Marcel Dominguez on sax
Liner notes by James Falzone and Jim Wilke
Recorded and Mixed at Studio Litho by Floyd Reitsma
Mastering by Ferran Conangla
Cover illustration and graphic design by: Koldo Barroso