Estrela Acesa: Demos & Alternates EP

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1.	Gostar do Mundo (Demo) 03:19	info	buy track
2.	Canção da Cura (Demo) 03:08	info	buy track
3.	Vento a Favor (Demo) 01:15	info	buy track
4.	Pele da Esfera (Alternate) 02:39	info	buy track
5.	Irmão de Nuvem (Demo) 03:14	info	buy track
6.	Dor Fodida (Demo) 03:04	info	buy track
7.	Gostar do Mundo (Alternate) 02:30	info	buy track
8.	Ponta de Faca (Demo) ft. СОЮЗ 02:57	info	buy track

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Estrela Acesa: Demos & Alternates EP is a unique window into the songwriting process of Sessa's 2022 record, Estrela Acesa. Joining Sessa on a journey that gently reaches out in the dark for the layers that would go on to form the record, the listener can detect the foundational ideas (roughly put together through percussion loops, midi strings and piano harmonies) that were to become the orchestrations, the songwriting itself, the singing: The very first pleasures of seeing the ideas surface into something palpable.

Ranging from 2020 to 2021, the demos explore different recording processes via cassette, computers, phones and tape machines that flourished in makeshift studios in Sessa's home country of Brazil via Downtown São Paulo, Gonçalves, Ilhabela then stretching over to the US in Jackson Heights, Upstate New York and Jersey City. The finished work puts a peaceful end to an erratic search for something, and blurs all that actually happened, giving the EP a beautiful opportunity to look back at the process.

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released August 11, 2023

All songs written by Sessa
Recorded by Sessa in São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Gonçalves, MG, Brazil and Jackson Heights, NY.
Mixed and mastered by Gui Jesus Toledo

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Sessa São Paulo, Brazil

Sessa's songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso, and the melodic flourishes of Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen, with touches of tropicalia and free jazz. ... more

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