For those not in the know, groundbreaking composer/vocalist Sara Serpa and visionary pianist/composer Matt Mitchell present their new album End of Something, a bold, intimate new duo album out November 7th, 2025 via Obliquity Records.

With 15 striking tracks weaving through composition and improvisation, the album perfectly captures the deep musical connection Serpa and Mitchell have cultivated between themselves over years of collaboration.

End of Something includes original pieces by both artists as well as settings of texts by poets/writers Sonia Sanchez, Sofia de Mello Breyner, Virginia Woolf, and Luce Ingaray, plus a stunning rendition of Olivier Messiaen’s Les Bergers.

In short, the album’s sonic world unfolds with detailed interplay, harmonic richness and fearless exploration.

1. News Cycle
2. Diction
3. Hyper Pathos
4. The Future
5. Trouvaille
6. Les Bergers
7. Gluey Clamor
8. Carry You Like A River
9. Fettleau
10. Elegiac Foldouts
11. Ar e Vento
12. Tooth Helmet
13. End of Something
14. Dead Spirits
15. Hypo Bathos

This elegantly crafted, and sweepingly ambient new recording opens on a beautifully harmonic ebb and flow sounded out within News Cycle (much like the presses made back in the day) and the cautiously unfolding Diction and then we are brought forth a melancholy ache that melodiously resides within Hyper Pathos, the harmonically delicate The Future, the veritable ethereal Trouvaille, and both the thoughtful Les Bergers and the inquisitively abiding Gluey Clamor.

Along next on this album that features meticulously composed, dutifully improvised new tracks, is, for me, the stand out track on the collection, Carry You Like A River (which includes text from a haiku by American poet Sonia Sanchez), the sublime, unabashed austerity of Fettleau and the emotive Elegiac Foldouts, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by some folk vibes that bleed within the flow of Ar e Vento, a spaciously abstract feel to Tooth Helmet, the generously resolute End of Something, the set rounding out on the solemn chorale-hued Dead Spirits, coming to a close on the forlorn work Hypo Bathos.

Musicians:
Sara Serpa - voice
Matt Mitchell - piano

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