INNOCENTIA (Sony Music/Harmonia Mundi)Artist
Oct. 2015 - Jun. 2022Portuguese jazz vocalist Maria Mendes returns with her second album Innocentia featuring virtuoso clarinetist Anat Cohen. This new album is a sophisticated set featuring new takes on old favourites, exquisite adaptations of classical pieces and deeply personal compositions about sweet childhood nostalgia, innocence and hope.
On Innocentia, Mendes and her band of Dutch all-stars continue to join the dots between Western giants such as Pat Metheny and the freer, percussive style of Hermeto Pascoal. Whether it’s standards such as ‘Smile’, a poignant Sting song or the exotic rhythm of Villa Lobos ‘Bachianas Brasileiras Nr 5’, there is a loose and playful approach to each adaptation.