Felipe Salles and The Ecce Ensemble

On his mesmerizing new album, **Camera Obscura**, the imaginative saxophonist and composer Felipe Salles takes perspective as the guiding principle for an ambitious project that melds jazz and chamber music. This expansive sonic palette offers Salles a means of experimenting with the effects and interplay of light and darkness, shadow and color, imagery and divergent perspectives – the camera obscura, after all, doesn’t replicate its source material exactly, but mirrored and flipped upside-down.

“A camera obscura projects an image that is not exactly reality,” Salles explains, “but is made out of light and shadows and perspective. I wondered, ‘How do I take that and make it into a song?’ So all of the tunes on the album come from a variety of different perspectives and play with the contrast between light and darkness.”

Salles brings a 14 piece chamber jazz ensemble to the stage for the first time at Bombyx, featuring a jazz quartet, string quartet and woodwind sextet.