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Release Date: 2021-10-31Label: Tratore
The album was recorded at home in Florianópolis (Brazil) between 2019 and 2021. It was produced by Brunno Manfra in partnership with musician Lucas Pasquini, who, in addition to recording most of the instruments, mixed, mastered and created the project's graphic art. During the initial period of the pandemic, due to social isolation, there was no way to perform recordings by other musicians in the studio. As a way of overcoming the difficulty, musicians who had their own recording equipment were invited. They/they were contacted through specific websites and then the disc had the extra participation of musicians from England (very special participation of Tehilla Henry), Indonesia, Philippines and Scotland. However, the vast majority of instruments were performed by Manfra and Lucas Pasquini. All compositions are authored by Brunno Manfra, except track 9 “Summer”, which is a version of a Japanese underground band Maher Shalal Hash Baz, of the iconic vocalist Tori Kudo, inspiration for the composer. The album follows a LO-FI (low fidelity) aesthetic line, marked by errors and out of tune, largely inspired by the work of Tori Kudo, as well as the works of Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska and the work of Devendra Banhardt. The album conceptually works with the authoritarian theme of the present time, in addition to the social isolation resulting from the pandemic process. So feelings like censorship, fear, melancholy, guilt and social isolation show up in the songs. The language, however, is metaphorical and is used in most of the work on grammars of the dream/unconscious. The album was chosen among the best 50 albums released in Brazil in 2021, in the 29th position by the influential website “Tenho Mais Discos que Amigos” (TMDQA).