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Vasconcelos Sentimento announces debut album "Furto"

Vasconcelos Sentimento FurtoRelease date: 30th July 2021 | Formats: Vinyl LP/CD/Digital
Residing in Rio de Janeiro, Vasconcelos Sentimento is a self-taught composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. A mosaic of lo-fi breaks, cosmic ambient jazz and wonky chromatic funk, the eccentric Brazilian DIY wizard’s debut album Furto beautifully pieces together a huge range of seemingly disparate sonic elements. Calling himself an “amateur euphoric sound researcher”, he has no formal training in either music theory or production, and it’s simply by following his ear that has led him to creating his debut album for Far Out.
It was his fascination with his fellow countryman, the enigmatic, psychedelic 70s folk artist José Mauro, that led the young Vasconcelos Sentimento (real name Guilherme Esteves) to first make contact with Far Out. Coincidentally living in the same region as Mauro, Sentimento managed to track him down and put label boss Joe Davis in touch, after Davis had spent years of what felt like hopeless searching for the man many assumed dead.
When Joe and the Far Out team heard Guilhermes’ own music, there was a sense of shock. “It was unlike anything we’d heard before, but it also sounded curiously at home on Far Out. Like it had taken little pieces of different releases from the catalogue, and all the music from the ‘60s onwards that influences everything we do, and recreated all that magic in such an exciting new way”.
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Indeed, Sentimento is not afraid to admit what he himself sees as acts of theft. (Furto=Theft in Portuguese). But while the debate surrounding the ethics of sampling is a never ending one, Sentimento’s music - while it does contain the odd sample - steals in an entirely different way. His creative process involves an intensive period, in which he’ll listen to just one artist or song over and over, for days and weeks on end. Then he’ll head to his rudimentary bedroom studio, which, as he puts it, is “built for speed”, hit record and “blurt” whatever comes out. “I never spend more than a day working on any one song idea”...
Picasso once said “lesser artists borrow; great artists steal”. And it’s through this process of ‘Furto’ that Vasconcelos Sentimento has somewhat ironically cultivated a sound that is unmistakably his own.
Furto is due for vinyl, CD and digital release on 30th July 2021, via Far Out Recordings.

Buy the album below of from Bandcamp

Tracklist: 1. Velhas Maos Novos Tapas 2. Ai Meu Deus 3. Passarinho 4. Cama Do Estoque 5. Movimento 6. Burkina 7. Lucca 8. Novo Velho 9. Atraso Granular 10. Tender Strings 11. One For The Masta Digga 12. Marvin Jorge 13. Quebra Coco 14. Doutor Contrafacção 15. Jazzlofi Da Morte 16. Batebate 17. Geraldo 18. Brazileiro Com Z 19. Amigão 20. Decepcionado 21. Samora 22. Boiling Array (Digital Bonus track)


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