Brazilian producer and multi-instrumentalist lands on European soil for an 8-date tour
Kassin has worked with everyone (Marisa Monte, Beck, Bebel Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gruff Rhys, the list goes on), often as a producer, musician or songwriter, and has also released a stream of outrageously-good albums under his own name, beginning with the Kassin+2 record, but more recently, Relax, an album which came out last year amid much critical acclaim.
Relax is classic Kassin. Funky tunes with flashes of pop genius, lyrical wordplays, detailed and surprising arrangements, and severe musical chops. The first track on the album is “Comprimidos Demais”, which is the track we are premiering today in its Sessões Tronco guise.
Recorded in February at Tronco’s studio in Porto Alegre, Kassin plays with a band featuring Alberto Continentino on bass, Daniel Santana on drums and Danilo Andrade on keyboards. The song is about a couple managing their moods using pills, and includes a play on words in the title. “Comprimidos Demais” roughly translates as “Too Many Pills” but as “comprimidos” can mean both pills or compressed, it has a double meaning. Kassin had this to say about the recording of the session:
“It was a beautiful recording at Tronco. It’s a beautiful big house where they have the studio, and it became a kind of party there, everybody having fun, I think that translates on the video.”
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Watch “Comprimidos Demais” below: