Songs of Border Crossings, Sunrises, and Mournings 

Music & Lyrics by Alex E. Chávez
Poems by Roger Reeves
Produced by Quetzal Flores

An immersive, poetic, and musical passage, SONOROUS PRESENT journeys across America's borderlands –as physical place and liminal space–offering sonic meditations on themes of loss, migration, and memory.

What began as an experimental, collaborative, and improvised performance in 2019–inspired by the music and poetics of Alex E. Chávez’s award-winning book Sounds of Crossing –was subsequently reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores.

Featuring luminaries from the worlds of traditional Mexican son and jazz — including Aloe Blacc, Martha Gonzalez (2022 MacArthur Fellow), Roger Reeves (2022 National Book Award Finalist, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow), and Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso (Winner of the 2022 Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition) — SONOROUS PRESENT offers a never-before-heard blend of Mexican and Latin American folk elements with progressive jazz, poetry, dance, field recordings, and ethnographic songwriting that crosses the sunburst surreal of America's musical and cultural borderlands.

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This project will start to tour in 2024

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