Sara Serpa and Matt Mitchell are long-time collaborators. The duo appears on Ingrid Laubrock's new release, Purposing the Air, featuring the poetry of Erica Hunt.

“Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.” 

- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

A native from Lisboa, Portuguese Sara Serpa is a singer, composer, improviser, who through her practice and performance, explores the use of the voice as an instrument. Serpa has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music, since moving to New York in 2008. Literature, film, visual arts, nature and history inspire Serpa in the creative process and development of her music. Described by the New York Times as “a singer of silvery poise and cosmopolitan outlook,” and by the JazzTimes magazine as “a master of wordless landscapes,”  Serpa started her recording and performing career with jazz luminaries such as Grammy-nominated pianists, Danilo…