A Vision

A Vision is the fifth album that Lorena Fontana, composer, lyricist and talented singer, recorded in her name. But this, unlike the previous ones , was made in the United States with equally talented musicians such as pianist Mitchel Forman, which we know for the wonderful work with Wayne Shorter, bassist Edwin Livingston , drummer Ralph Humphrey and saxophonist Michael Rosen. With this new work, the singer interprets ten songs with dramatic intensity, five of which are her composition, two by A. C. Jobim, chosen with intelligence in the vast repertoire of the great Brazilian composer and three more by Djavan, Cedar Walton and Violeta Parra, the splendid "Gracias a la vida" that the Chilean singer and songwriter left to posterity in 1966 just before her suicide . "The Maestro" was composed by Walton when the pianist was still part of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers, but was recorded in a vocal version only in 1975. Lorenas interpretation has that fire that this song requires, though it saddens me that Cedar was unable to listen to this performance because he left us on August 19. Im sure , knowing him personally, he would have been thrilled. If Lorena Fontana is an excellent singer, her scat chorus in "The Maestro" and in other songs are perfect, as well as her English is perfect, what makes her peculiar and unsurpassed are her skills as a writer. Her lyrics are magnificent, it would take just these few verses : " Waking to a song of inner calling , sipping from a cup still burning where hopes had been spilled on the floor, here each cloud is wrapped in silver lining and Gods up above in their silk dressesre dining" (A Vision) to say that Lorena Fontana, to whom I wish greater successes, is a musician of the most intelligent and sensitive kind always able to arouse strong emotions. ~Adriano Mazzoletti