Carlos Ferreira - Dust Inside the Light (2024)

There's a few ambient artist who I find consistently inspiring and the Brazilian Carlos Ferreira is one of them as his new album (19th I think in the last five years) is at least just as good as the ones I know. The dreamy, lively but melancholic vibes are what draw me to his music.

This liveliness of the little sounds dancing around you, but never stay long enough to be encapsulated and studied, tons of things going around you so fast that feel weightless, this is the kind of experience I seek in Ferreira's music and I'm never disappointed. The December album  brings it all once again so I can enjoy the ethereal ambient vibes as long as I want. Especially that the release features his compatriot Rita Zart and two additional remixes, making it a beautiful journey into the dreamy soundscapes.

Dust Inside the Light costs 5.20 EUR.

Check: Dissolving the Self

Country: Brazil

Genre: lively ambient

Label: Archives 

Carlos Ferreira & Ki Oni - A Hundred Ways of Escaping (2022)

Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - La Deriva (2021)

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Carlos Ferreira & Ki Oni - A Hundred Ways of Escaping (2022)

This is another geographically challenged collaboration I post about this week. This time it's Carlos Ferreira from Brazil, a musician I love from his work with Almanacs last year, and Chuck Soo-Hoo aka Ki Oni from California. They utilized the vast distance between them on a beautiful album called A Hundred Ways of Escaping.

Knowing Ferreira's work, it's no surprise that the album is filed with subtle but very lively music. It is both mesmerizing and filled with a multitude of sounds, I would call it a psychedelic soundscape as it unveils in front of our souls but in a very peculiar way. The music is accompanied by a picturesque short story that starts with a sentence "A single broken tree stands in a field of mud" and deals with a scary, poignant but also hopeful reality around us. Interestingly, Ki Oni's moniker comes from a Japanese monster who is supposed to be "a tree with a human face that spews flower pedals from its mouth". If it's just a coincident, one thing is clear: both musicians draw a lot from nature around us and it's very tangible in their work.

A Hundred Ways of Escaping costs 5 USD.

Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - La Deriva (2021)

Check: Bounded Rationality

Country: Brazil & California, US

Genre: psychedelic soundscape

Label: Umé Records

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Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - La Deriva (2021)

After three (!) albums last year alone, the Brazilian artist Carlos Ferreira is back with what's the best music from him I heard so far. And he's not alone as La Deriva is the result of collaboration with Wilmer Murillo who is better known as Alamanacs.

The two ambient artists come from two different countries in Latin America, Brazil and Honduras, and this alone makes this release quite special (read more about it on the Bandcamp page). But there's a lot more to this album as it's one of the best ambient works I've heard for some time now. Together, the two artists create some extremely beautiful soundscapes of multi-layered electronica and longing. Tracks like Ausencia, Desdén y Fortuna are so pretty that it hurts. It is even more impressive as the album is unscripted, it's a "spontaneous exploration of abstract concepts and blurry images" by two artists that became a brilliant album.

La Deriva costs 5 USD.

Check: Ausencia, Desdén y Fortuna

Country: Brazil, Honduras

Genre: ambient soundscape

Label: giraffe tapes

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