Fabiano Do Nascimento & E Ruscha V - Aquaticos (Music From Memory) [Balearic]

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's February 9th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

Fabiano Do Nascimento is a hard working Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, producer and arranger, currently flitting between Los Angeles and Tokyo. He’s not hanging about either and has been releasing one or two albums of varying stylistic hues a year since 2015.

E Ruscha V is an L.A. based producer and multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps you might have stumbled across his Secret Circuit moniker? I was relatively, but not too late to the party, where he’s been blending tropical, psychedelic and pleasantly experimental electronic and club sounds for the last thirty years. He was even involved in some underground band projects before that, and it’s fair to say he’s been around.

E Ruscha V aka Secret Circuit

Fabiano Do Nascimento

After having enjoyed large amounts of both artists’ recordings over the years, as well as noting that the album was being released on the ever interesting, TSMM attuned Music From Memory label, hopes were high for this one, and I’m happy to report I wasn’t disappointed. Both artists are in fine ethereal form, and it sounds like the studio had a large window and nice view.

Ruscha for his part lays down a skeletal electronic frame, the beats are few and far between which allows the sounds and guitar notes to breathe - reverb and echo left to take their natural course. Electronic tinkering is subtle, but a low-grade haze permeates the recording, and the sun’s rays reveal that the clouds of smoke are coming from behind the synth racks. I doubt if Nascimento was even standing for most tracks, instead content to lean back into the oversized studio sofa and fill in the gaps, more worried about evoking lazy summer days, snuggly Sunday mornings and Balearic sunsets than showing off his virtuosity; or perhaps that’s the definition of virtuosity?

If your sonic seasonal depression lamp bulb has blown then your replacement is here, and if you’re down south then look no further for the soundtrack to the last weeks of summer.

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Playlist Companion

Find the pair in the Slow Balearic Playlist.