HOODOOS by Sylvie Courvoisier & Jacques Demierre

Catalytic Sound continues its CAA fundraising program in support of social justice with Catalytic Artist Album #8, a duo recording from Sylvie Courvoisier with Jacques Demierre, entitled "Hoodoos." Each week Catalytic will continue to reissue these digital albums, formerly member-exclusive, to help raise donations for non-profit organizations chosen by musicians from the collective.

Proceeds raised from sales of "Hoodoos" will go toward the Bail Project, an organization suggested by Sylvie (bailproject.org). "The Bail Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time. We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration. Over the next five years, The Bail Project will open dozens of sites in high-need jurisdictions with the goal of paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans, all while collecting stories and data that prove money bail is not necessary to ensure people return to court. We won’t stop until meaningful change is achieved and the presumption of innocence is no longer for sale."

Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a native of Switzerland, has earned just renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the downtown jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades.
– “a pianist of equal parts audacity and poise,” according to The New York Times

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