Marinero w/ Sessa at The Domes

Another mind-bending show brought to you by the Domes. Do not miss this!

ARTIST BIO:

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.

MARINERO:

Marinero is a solo project dreamt up by Bay Area chicanx songwriter/composer Jess Sylvester in 2014. He is a man of many projects and has taken part in groups that delve into a variety of genres ranging from punk/hardcore (Violent Change, Tiger Uppercut, Crisis Man) to sampledelia (Francisco y Madero). Francisco Y Madero, was the precursor to Marinero and the beginning of his cholo-fi signature style of taking samples of 60s latin music and adding spacey pop flavors. Jess takes Marinero’s sound elsewhere in Trópico de Cáncer which is rooted in bossa nova and Tropicália and gathers influence from groups like chicano rock bands like Los Freddy’s, Los Angeles Negros, and Malo.