Fabiano do Nascimento | Sam Gendel – “The Room” (Released 9th February 2024)

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£25.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Vinyl

The Room is a collection of folkloric pieces from various regions around South America, as interpreted by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel, on 7-string nylon guitar and soprano saxophone, respectively. Presented with purity and focus, soaring and lamenting, this album presents a unique journey through lesser-known musical landscapes and traditions stretching from Argentina to the Amazon.

Sam Gendal, the Californian saxophonist – perhaps best-known for his thoughtful collaborations with Moses Sumney and bassist Sam Wilkes – has long been honing slippery improvisations, pitch-bending his harmonies and sliding over rhythms. The ambient-jazz musician offers unpredictable, impressionistic takes on R&B hits from the ’90s and early ’00s, tackling songs by Beyoncé, Aaliyah, and Erykah Badu. Sam Gendel’s ascension to beloved ambient-jazz savant has been fuelled, in part, by the inexhaustibility of his output.

Fabiano is a Rio de Janeiro-born, LA-based multi-string guitarist, composer and producer who has developed his own sound that is ever-expansive, sometimes called retro-futuristic Brazilian music, borrowing from the traditions of samba and choro while echoing elements of modern jazz, experimental and electronic.

Tracklisting:

1. Foi boto
2. Capricho
3. Astral flowers
4. Kewere
5. Cores
6. Txera
7. Até de manhã
8. Poeira
9. Tupi
10. Daiana