Grandeza is the brilliant debut album of Brazil-born artist Sessa. A long-time fixture of both the American and Brazilian music scenes, known for collaborating with NY guitar legend Yonatan Gat, and his co-founding of São Paulo psych-funk combo Garotas Suecas, Sessa now shares his own musical vision of “super sick modern Brazilian vibes … touching on cosmic jazz, psych, and tropicália,” as put by music-connoisseurs at Light in the Attic.

His songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sexual lyrics in the vain of Caetano Veloso and melodic flourishes not unlike those of Tom Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen.

Sessa’s concerts are already stuff of legend in Brazil, as he takes the stage accompanied solely by female backing choir and Afro-Brazilian percussion. While the songs often deal with subjects such as the sensual body and spiritual transcendence, the music points to new, more subtle directions for World pop music in 2019 – a deep, minimalist, almost insinuated use of the endlessly rich textures and rhythms that define the songwriting history of Brazil, which Sessa now joins as one of the most promising new voices.

TRACKLIST:
1.Antônio Adolfo – Porque é Que Você se Esconde
2.Issam Halaji – Lam Azal
3.Arik Einstein – Kama Tov She Bata Ha Baita
4.Jorge Ben – Eu Sou da Pesada
5.Baden Powell – Ponto
6.Gal Costa – Fruta Gogóia
7.Gal Costa – Meu Nome é Gal
8.Aum – Resurrection
9.Macdonald and Giles -Tomorrow’s People the Children of Today
10.Caetano Veloso – Eu Quero Essa Mulher Assim Mesmo
11.Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues
12.Alceu Valença – Cabelos Longos
13.Fagner – Corda de Aço
14.Nino Ferrer and Radiah _ Moses
15.Erasmo Carlos – Deitar e Rolar
16.Helene Smith – I’m Controlled by Your Love
17.Paulo Diniz – Metrô
18.Maurício Tapajós – Falando de Cadeira
19.Antônio Adolfo – Venice