Name: Estrela Acesa
Brand: Sessa

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-24

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The Orchard

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Sessa

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Latin / South American 

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Mexican Summer

<p>Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.</p>

<p>Grandeza, the debut album by Sao Paulo's Sessa, takes modern Brazilian music in new directions. With a deep, subtle use of rich textures and sensual lyrics in Portuguese, Sessa's songs evoke the spirit of Caetano Veloso and Tom Jobim. The minimalist treatment gives a unique touch to contemporary Brazilian music, reminiscent of Leonard Cohen with hints of tropicalia, folk, and cosmic jazz. As a long-time fixture in American and Brazilian music scenes, collaborating with Yonatan Gat and co-founding Garotas Suecas, Sessa's solo debut album is a soft focus portrait of Brazilian music that embraces modernity.</p>

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Sergio Sayeg (aka Sessa) has always been entranced by what he calls “the mess” of music: the accidental, tortuous nature of it, a path on which musicians and audiences alike can attain a higher purpose. A love supreme, if you will. While Sessa’s 2019 debut Grandeza explored the corporeal pleasures and gentle drunkenness of being in love, his new album, Estrela Acesa (which translates as Burning Star), gazes up to the heavens and ponders love both sensuous and spiritual, in the throes of its resultant hangover.

São Paulo-born, at-home-everywhere, Sessa conceived of his new album as a bridge to connect the earthy and astral realms of music: “Estrela Acesa comes to remind people of how music grounds our existence in a meaningful way, with its potential to give roots to the divine in a modern world lacking in symbolic weight,” Sessa says. “Connections with the cosmos, gods, nature …in many cultures that means a relationship with music. I think life can be fulfilling and meaningful and music is one of those experiences.”

Sensuous joy courses through the twelve songs of Estrela Acesa. It is evident in the title itself, but also in the seductive sway and hushed poetry of Sessa’s music. It’s all right there in the concise two minutes of “Gostar do Mundo” (Taste for the World), the opening number. “I felt like I was watching behind 

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