Two seeds, twin souls, a pair of eyes who view the Rainforest --- the cradle of their siblings --- from different pasts and angles, yet whose visions --- visions of the Emerald Regeneration that links them all in the Loop of Life, known as Nature, their taciturn Mother --- are unanimously in the same Color
A Color of Land, of spiritual consonance with those who mark Nature by the taps of their claws, their soaring wings, or by their iridescent scales; a Color that the disordered and dishonored gatherings called the Civil World --- a cursed reflection of theirs --- eludes with the full intention and compulsory blindness, yet they (and only they) still perceive and remember.
Two seeds, twin souls, a pair of tales about the Growth and Dissolution of Rainforest their Home, pain and healing, about the indigenous and the beasts, about the self-swallowing mouth of the Land and the Creator who had been put to slumber beneath the stone house, about Us versus Them --- the war where the Nature's children still wage to this moment, to resist the perils of modernization, civilization, extortion, usurpation, appropriation, and violation of their Land.
Two seeds, twin souls, two poundings of their eternal Rhythm --- the heartbeats of their dreams
"Logos, devir, herança, música, Ritmo...
O homem branco que vá pra la com sua morte branca. E nos deixe aqui, com a vida vermelha, como o urucun"
Kaatayra and Pessimista, two of the most promising young acts in the vibrant Brazilian underground, finally join forces and present to us two long tracks of searing emotion and savoring depth. One of this release's most remarkable traits --- a fact that anyone who finished this split from start to finish would agree upon --- is the coherence shared by two artists, both musically and thematically: melodies and song structures inspired by indigenous folk and the life raised by the rainforests, and a genuine and warm nostalgia roots in every passage of these two. Kaatayra, as usual, proves with his astonishing originality and bewitching riffs that he is one of the few artists whose songwriting is synonymous with poetry. Pessimista, on the other hand, accomplishes a major leap (both in terms of style and writing) from his previous materials --- this experimentation of a more folk-inclining direction is indeed a success, no doubt one of his best tracks.
Released simultaneously, these two albums spotlight Austin Lunn's resonant folk and foreboding metal, respectively. Bandcamp Album of the Day Aug 15, 2025
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FINALLY a proper double vinyl pressing for this. I discovered this album in college on cd, and have hoped that someone someday would invest the money to put this out on vinyl! Today is a great day, pre order smashed. cold purveryor of narcotic death