I feel so lucky to collaborate with some of the most amazing musicians at the Jazz Camp West 2024 during the Midnight Jam at Golds’ Gulch for Jobim’s timeless bossa nova piece “Vivo Sonhando” (Portuguese-to-English Translation: “I live dreaming”).
I couldn’t find a better song to sing at 2 am inside a forest with such a fascinating setup. The song speaks of a dreamer living far away from pains and hard realities of life, a sort of a meditation on escapism and the beauty found in moments of quiet introspection.
Its lyrics, such as “One is to dream, two is loving you,” so was mixed with our instrument sounds and echoed in the forest in the most surreal way. And the audience told us afterwards that, when we performed it, all they felt was like actually residing in a dream.