Sinforiano Diaz (~60 Listeners)
Sinforiano Diaz is a long-running project of Thomas Diaz, a singer/songwriter from Willimantic, Connecticut. Diaz is best known for being the vocalist and keyboard player for The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, an atmospheric emo band that is also from Willimantic. A solo project, Sinforiano Diaz actually predates his work in The World Is A Beautiful Place….
The music of Sinforiano Diaz is a remarkably delicate kind of indie folk, with the hushed, occasionally whispered vocals of Diaz supported by multitracked swaths of acoustic guitar. The guitar melodies are vaguely twinkly, recalling the work of Mike Kinsella and other acoustic twinkle acts and adding a melancholic layering to the final product.
On The Moosup Sessions, a collection of four songs written and recorded over three years ago that were never properly released, Diaz’s songwriting is just as unconventional as his The World Is a Beautiful Place… work, while still retaining form and structure despite the length of the songs. These four songs are brief, honest works painstakingly crafted to perfection. The Moosup Sessions is an extreme example of quality over quantity; these songs all hover around only two minutes, but every second of the album’s sub-8 minute length is hopelessly and unforgivingly brilliant. Each track, from the warm-sounding opener “Congregation” to the utterly beautiful “A Hymn”, evokes a positive, communal outlook on life, even when the tone may seem melancholy. These songs feel like they could be universal, and yet I can’t help but feel deeply and personally affected at all the allusions to life in Connecticut itself, most notably on the second song “The From The Tracks”, in which Diaz sings about taking a train into New Haven, the town in which I live. It’s a remarkably chilling moment on a beautiful album that is quite full of them.
The Moosup Sessions (2011)
- Congregation
- The From The Tracks
- My Two Mouths
- A Hymn
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Sinforiano Diaz will be playing a show in New Haven, Connecticut on April 7th. Information for that show can be found HERE.
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