About: Silence by Marco Antonio Santos

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Marco Antonio Santos is a guitarist, arranger, composer, and music educator. Originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, he is currently based in Austin, Texas.

In spring 2023, ears&eyes Records will release Santos’s debut album, About: Silence, a conceptual work that combines music, visual art, improvisational dance, and poetry to explore the various meanings of silence—introspection, grief, oppression, absence of sound, and more. Conceived during the forced solitude of the COVID-19 pandemic, when live musical performances all but ceased, and amid times of social upheaval and racial violence, About: Silence is a full-throated embrace of artistic expression across multiple dimensions. The album’s eleven compositions are brought to life by a jazz trio of guitar, upright bass, and drums, joined by a woodwind quartet on four tracks and a string quartet on five.

Tracklist

1.	About Silence	10:09

2.	Bittersweet	7:11

3.	Breathtaker	5:54

4.	I Can't Breathe	2:30

5.	Eyes of Us Both: Part 1	7:36

6.	That Brief Moment When Everything Seems to Click	2:18

7.	Eyes of Us Both: Part 2	7:14

8.	Things Money Should Not Buy but Seem to Be Always for Sale	8:24

9.	Missing Part	7:36

10.	Numb	6:24

11.	March of the Loud Quietude	4:23

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Credits

released May 5, 2023

About: Silence

guitar/ composition - Marco Antonio Santos
upright bass - Chris Jones 1
drums - Fabio Augustinis 1

flutes - Dominique Reilly 2
oboe/ English horn - David Blackwell Jr. 2
clarinet - John Mills 2
clarinet - Daniel Toscano 4
bassoon - Brigit Fitzgerald 2

violin I - Corina Santos 3
violin II - Camille Schiess 3
viola - Rebecca Lester 3
cello - Matt Armbruster 3

conducting - John Mills 3

recording engineer
Orb Recording Studios.
Austin. April/ May 2022 - Victor Gaspar

mixing/mastering
Estúdio Arsis.
São Paulo. May 2022 - Adonias Souza Jr.

art - Chico Ceciliano
design - Carine Rieko
photography - Zoe Otey/ Ligia Francisco

1 All except track 6

2 Tracks 1, 7, 8, 11

3 Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 10

4 Track 1

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