Monday's Long Songs

I've posted music from Feriasdasferias here twice this year- one release just a few weeks ago here - but make no apologies for offering you this today, a collaboration with Marcelo Gerab recorded live and then broadcast on radio in Sao Paulo. Cirurgical Cuts 54' 54'' is six long pieces, all eight minutes long except for the last one which is ten minutes. The sounds are hypnotic, rhythms and drones, repeating patterns and layers of synths, overlapping and returning, vague hints of voices dropping in and out, acres of reverb and echo, electronic lo fi dub from Brazil. By the time you get to the third part, 17'39'',  you're in so deep, so mesmerised, you have little choice but to follow it all the way through. You can listen and buy here. 

Another of Eduardo Ramos' many pseudonyms for making music in Sao Paulo is Pandit Pam Pam. As Pandit Pam Pam in July 2021 he released this track, Bondade. It was recorded in the countryside in deep summer, as Eduardo says, 'surrounded by trees and lots of sun... while looking at a small gathering of lemon trees and orange trees'. It sounds like it was too. 

Cine Privé

Back in May I posted a track called Jaca from an EP by Fériasdasférias, a DJ and producer from Sao Paulo, Brazil, thirteen minutes of ambient/ home listening/ dance music that worked its magic slowly then quickly then slowly again. Fériasdasférias aka Bruno Protti is back now with a second album, this one a full length album composed around studying a run down cinema in downtown Sao Paulo, a cinema that judging by the song titles specialises in a particular type of adult movies. 

Growing up in Manchester there were several adult cinemas in town, at least two on Oxford Road near the railway station and the Cornerhouse. They were the subject of much speculation among teenage boys. The men who used to be seen coming in or going out looked ancient but were probably no older, and maybe younger, than I am today. Everything (and more) that these men paid to watch in a public place can now be viewed at home, only a couple of clicks away on a laptop or phone. 

Back to the music- Fériasdasférias has just released Cine Privé, an ambient album made up of twelve tracks of atmospherics, hisses, buzzes, static, drones, washes and waves of sound, synths, ghostly melodies and 

The title track, Cine Privé, is three minutes twenty two seconds of synthesiser topline and ringing sounds, an interpretation of Sao Paulo after dark. The album unfolds around this track in a similar vein, not too far from more local artists (to me) such as Craven Faults and Pye Corner Audio, building up to the fourteen minute finale Unurai Sticks, where broken rhythms, the occasional burst of finger picked guitar and some sampled voices make their way through the fog and haze. Well worth some of your time this week. Buy/ listen at Bandcamp. 

Monday's Long Song

Today's long song came via a recommendation from Jesse Fahnestock and is from an album called Os Grandes Sucessos released on Friday by Brazillian artist Fériasdasférias, resident of Sao Paolo. Jaca is a thirteen minute trip, bumping straight into life from the first click of Play. Pumping drums, rising and falling synth patterns, some nicely distorted/ droney melody lines in the background, pitched somewhere between the dancefloor and ambient/ home listening. There's a longish section where it all calms down a bit but the growing intensity around eleven minutes, as the synths start buzzing, brings it all back to the fore- and then suddenly the dam breaks and it all goes mellow again. Lovely stuff. 

There are plenty of other long songs on the album, three clocking in at nine minutes and another breaking the thirteen minute mark. For contrast, Aquecendo is less than two minutes long- variety is the spice of life as they say. Buy Jaca on its own or the whole of Os Grandes Sucessos at Bandcamp. And thank you Jesse for the tip.