Life is a simple mess

Life Is A Simple Mess

Livro e CD com vários projectos de Travassos: Pão, Big Bold Back Bone, Flu, Pinkdraft e One Eye Project - e parcerias com Iff, Pedro Sousa, Tiago Sousa, Luís Lopes, Gabriel Ferrandini, Ricaro Jacinto, Amélia Grade

Chili Com Carne

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Life is a Simple Mess de Travassos apresenta-nos um percurso imaginário repartido em três etapas “Life is Simple”, “Life is a Mess” e “Mish-Mash” onde as formas simples e complexas coabitam de forma natural e complementar. Ao longo do percurso os textos de Nate Wooley vão dando pistas e revelações para uma possível interpretação deste cenário simbiótico do real-irreal.

Travassos é designer e ilustrador, especializado em capas de discos, maioritariamente nos territórios do jazz. Actualmente já soma cerca de 400 capas de discos de músicos como Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Pharoah Sanders, Peter Brotzmann, Ken Vandermark, Craig Taborn, Steve Lehman, Fred Frith, Peter Evans, Louis Sclavis, Paal-Nilssen Love, Joe Mcphee, Rob Mazurek, Jamie Saft, Wadada Leo Smith ou Bernardo Sassetti, entre outros.

If a suggestion may be offered–use the work in these pages as so many chances to live between the extremes: within the Mish-Mash. Don’t allow the seeming precariousness of all the balanced elements hold you back. It is the combination of subtle, profane, mundane, irrational, and sympathetic in these images that represents the real life “glue” through which we hold ourselves together. We can appreciate the purely simple and the purely complex, but we absolutely must live and hear and see in the wonderful combination of its combinations. That’s where we learn to be human. Luckily, an artist like Travassos provides us with all we need to begin. - Nate Wooley