The busy jazz drummer Antonio Sanchez sees it as his duty to speak up as an artist about the abuses in the world. Lines In The Sand deals with a theme close to him: the American political game surrounding Mexican migrants and the personal dramas that this entails. Mexican Sanchez himself went to America at the age of 21 to study music. It was the prelude to a glorious career for this master drummer,
… as a regular band member of guitarist , but also as creator of soundtracks such as the acclaimed (2014) and other solo projects. Lines In The Sand is the first album by his band Migration, which includes singer . Tight and inventive, the quintet plays Sanchez's epic modern jazz rock compositions that effortlessly switch from hectic and whimsical to melodic and dreamy. Alexa alternates wordless vocals and raging scats with the strikingly catchy and moving vocal track Home. Protest is especially evident in the poetry she recites in the closing title piece. Lines In The Sand is a grim, but also atmospheric and varied album with urgent music in which walls are broken. (MR)more
