Album Notes

Since two years of intense musical complicity, which started in Barcelona, the Luxemburgish doublebass player Marc Demuth and the Portuguese singer Sofia Ribeiro have been developing common musical projects that performed through jazz clubs and festivals in Spain, Portugal, Holland, Luxembourg, France, Germany and U.S.A. A strong and successful collaboration that resulted in the recording of their first CD called “Dança da Solidão", live at the “L’Inoui” (Luxembourg) in October 2005.

This duo of young and very talented musicians with a solid jazz background lead us to an intimate journey into the world of composers of different styles, going from jazz standards to brazilian music, with some incursions on pop music and also the portuguese fado, with personal arrangements adapted to this peculiar setting. Details, humor and silence are gaining importance, with a lot of improvisation and communication between these two instruments that, beside being in opposite extremes of range, complement each other.

"Here are well-known songs given new life by Sofia's beautiful voice and Marc's virtuosity. You'll want to listen to them again and again and you'll quickly understand the growing success of the band here and across Europe."
Paula Telo Alves, "Contacto", Luxembourg

“Sofia is an exceptionally talented musician who is stylistically diverse and technically proficient, with a remarkable ear and articulation technique. Her interpretation is seasoned, sophisticated and extremely expressive. She is one of the best scat singers that I have ever worked with!”
Bob Stoloff

“And besides her glamorous voice and perfect intonation; Sofia Ribeiro’s delicate singing full of nuances and different timbres created fragile and emotional moments and atmospheres. She blended with Marc Demuth into a playful, dreamful duet, like she would be searching for a similar soul. Fantastic!!”
Kultur, Trier, September 2004