Photo by Jonathan Finlayson
sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NYC-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem-songs composed by Crespo. Their affinity for melody, metaphor and abstraction draws them into familiar yet surprising environments, crackling with aliveness. sinonó has performed at venues such as Roulette Intermedium, Lincoln Center Atrium, and The DiMenna Center. They released their debut album, la espalda y su punto radiante on March 1, 2024 on Subtext Recordings.
“It’s an astonishing blend of the lyric and the austere, with time stretched like taffy, [...] utterly devastating in its meticulously sculpted intensity”
la espalda y su punto radiante is a collection of poem-songs spun out of solitude. Performed by sinonó, Crespo’s compositions live in familiar yet surprising environments, crackling with aliveness. The trio is pulled into the trying, harboring a faith in interconnectivity, impulse and imperfection. A patient listen, this music enlivens unknowing in all its devastating urgency and unfettered curiosity.
Crespo envisioned the album’s eight pieces as both emotional vignettes and points of departure. With intuition as a priority, they’ve constructed clear empathetic and aesthetic landscapes within which to improvise. Each member performs with an unshakeable commitment to the compositions, to an organic unfolding, and to a constant re-imagining. Over time, the trio builds deep trust allowing them to take risks, sculpting the music together in real time. Their affinity for melody, metaphor and abstraction draws them into a complex and shifting sonic topography.
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“A kind of expressionist fado, middle-of-the-night music, comfortable in the deep surrounding darkness, but also an “offering” that bends towards an oncoming light without betraying that it really is coming”
from June 7, 2022 at Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
from March 2023 at Ridgewood Presbyterian Church (Queens)
from December 12, 2021 at The Owl (Brooklyn, NY)
from June 7, 2022 at Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
from March 2023 at The Lace Mill via Notice Recordings (Kingston, NY)
2024
20 July / sinonó at The Stone, curated by John Zorn (Manhattan, NY)
ARCHIVE
2024
9 June / sinonó at CloseUp, sets at 7:30pm & 9:00pm (Brooklyn, NY)
2 June / Sō Laboratories presents sinonó [RSVP link coming soon!] (Brooklyn, NY)
6 May / Art for Arts “Artist Series” presents sinonó @ Sundown (Ridgewood, NY)
24 March / sinonó at The Tavern, presented by Notice Recordings (Stone Ridge, NY)
23 March / sinonó at Nova Arts (Keene, NH) [TICKETS] POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER
16 March / sinonó at Rhizome (Washington D.C.) [TICKETS]
15 March / sinonó at Le Mondo (Baltimore, MD) [TICKETS]
14 March / sinonó at The Perch, presented by Fire Museum (Philadelphia, PA) [TICKETS]
13 March / Double Album Release: The Music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, sinonó, and Laraaji at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, presented by Dada Strain and Mississippi Records (New York, NY) [TICKETS]
1 March / Album Release: la espalda y su punto radiante by sinonó [PREORDER]
18 January / Fire Over Heaven presents sinonó at Outpost Artist Resources (Brooklyn, NY)
2023
9 Nov / New Latin Wave presents sinonó at The Lincoln Center’s David Rubinstein Atrium [FREE] (Manhattan, NY)
19 Oct / Cría Cuervos presents sinonó at Academy Records (Brooklyn, NY)
7 Oct / sinonó / TAK Ensemble at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (Manhattan, NY)
15 Sep / Still Moving presents sinonó at Ki Smith Gallery (Manhattan, NY)
20 Aug / sinonó at P.I.T. (Brooklyn, NY)
18 March / Notice Recordings presents sinonó at The Lace Mill (Kingston, NY)
16 March / sinonó at Stone Circle Theater (Ridgewood, Queens)
12 March / sinonó at Studio 34 (Philadelphia, PA)
11 March / High Zero Foundation presents sinonó at Red Room (Baltimore, MD)
10 March / sinonó at Rhizome (Washington, D.C.)
2022
7 June / sinonó premieres “desbordándome” (2022) by Isabel Crespo Pardo at Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY)
3 Mar / sinonó at The Woods (Ridgewood, Queens)
2021
