That music is a healing element is something we already know. But in all this, there are certain degrees and situations, some more urgent than others. And to Sofia Comas music is a lifeline, it clings to it like a float in the middle of the ocean.
He did it in 2020 with “Summer will be forever” to overcome the death of his father and now, after a stretch of life, let’s say that, confused and convulsed, he draws his best weapon to bring down the vertigo. This is none other than that innate ability (and need) to compose.
“To a Red Bird” combines two apparently incompatible universes, electronics and the juggling and disconcerting games of the medieval. Without one dragging the other, simply as two complements to the essential: the virtue that as a singer-songwriter has Sofia Comas to flee from the prototypical.
In the little more than half an hour that the album lasts, and under the production of Mumbai Moon, Comas talks about the uncertainties of life and the way to resolve them. From the initial whistle with the confessional “To a Red Bird”the epic poise of “Until Dawn” y “Vervain Hope” with their palms and their eyes set on the dance and its sunrise. “Never never” narrates the great doubt; whether to pull back or forward, but as she says: “never stay here again”. In “Arroro” carry the experiment to infinity and so on “Storm”, the long epilogue to a record that every good doctor would recommend.
Few recipes so accurate for the cure of this “To a Red Bird”. The next step? We’ll see, but surely there is something sincere on the horizon and in his world, again a small revolution.