As a professional bassist and someone who has been blind since birth, part of Dublin-born/Austria-raised/Boston-based Ciara Moser’s identity has shaped her unique journey through life and music in a profound way.

Blind. So what?, Moser’s modern jazz fusion debut album, is centered around her experience as a blind musician while also raising awareness for the blind community.

The songs on Blind. So what?, available October 20th, 2023 explore topics such as the art of memorizing, spatial sense for orientation, trusting others, and the different perceptions that blind people have on the world.

The 27-year-old Moser, who plays virtuosic basslines on a Fodera electric six-string throughout the album, undoubtedly knows her way around groove-laden funk fusion and experimental contemporary jazz/world music.

1. I Trust
2. Memory
3. The Call to See Beyond
4. Different Ability, Pt. 1
5. Different Ability, Pt. 2
6. Humanity (Intro)
7. Humanity
8. Developing Senses
9. Sixth Sense
10. Traveling
11. The Lady with a Green Cane

After an intro where a screen reader (software that translates what is displayed on the screen for a blind person) recites the album title in 16 different languages, the brilliantly impassioned new recording opens on the free flowing I Trust and the alt-Prog vibe of Memory and then brings us the drum-led The Call to See Beyond, and then comes the two-part Different Ability.

Up next is the veritably ethereal, shimmering Humanity (Intro) and the Latin-hued full version, and they are backed seamlessly by the late night, underground cafe blues-hue to Developing Senses and the peacefully crafted Sixth Sense, which are themselves followed by the flirty grooves found within Traveling, the album coming to a close on the spoken word The Lady with a Green Cane.

Moser’s insightful arrangements on Blind. So what? give each of the many of the album’s musicians, most of which all current and former Berklee students, a chance to showcase their artistry and add their individual flavor to the compositions.

Moser is joined by drummer and vocalist Lumanyano MZI, percussionists Juan Sebastian Sanchez and George Lernis, keyboardists Warren Pettey, Stephanie Weninger and Anastassiya Petrova, guitarists Amaury Cabral, Liam Garcia and Isaac Romagosa, saxophonists Salim Charvet, Shahar Amdor and Lihi Haruvi, lead vocalists Aditi Malhotra and Nishant Shekar, backing vocalists Masa Vujadinovic and Shivaraj Natraj as well as several others who provide spoken voices.

Ciara Moser - Different Ability [Official Music Video]

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