Vila is L.A.-based virtuoso guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento‘s 15th album in a decade, and second in three months. In November 2025 he released the mysterious Cavejaz in collaboration with vocalist Jennifer Souza and Uakti’s Paulo Santos. Here he delivers a dreamy, deliriously beautiful collection of originals with musical partner, arranger, and trombonist Vittor Santos and his orchestra. Recorded between L.A. and Rio de Janeiro, the music comes out of time itself. According to the guitarist, it evokes the spirit of his childhood home in Bairro Saavedra in Rio’s Catete neighborhood. Here, lithe classical and folk music meet samba and orchestral jazz in lush compositions. Nascimento plays six- and-seven string and soprano guitars amid…
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Music from Memory presents Aquáticos, a collaboration between Los Angeles producer Eddie Ruscha (aka E Ruscha V / Secret Circuit) and Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento. Blending Nascimento’s expressive, Afro-samba- and choro-inflected guitar with Ruscha’s cosmic, groove-driven sound, Aquáticos marks the start of a vibrant musical partnership — an organic, free-spirited collaboration full of interplay and vitality.
Conceived during the early 2020’s, Aquáticos grew from a series of recording sessions in which the music unfolded naturally, in a state of effortless flow. Album opener ‘Nascer,’ the very first piece they recorded, captures such a moment perfectly: Nascimento’s 7- and 10-string nylon guitars weave seamlessly with Ruscha’s modular synths,…
Fabiano Do Nascimento is not simply sticking to his Brazilian roots. After all, he currently has a split residence between Los Angeles and Japan, trying to include all his experience and form them into a specific whole on his latest album offering Cavejaz. Primarily a guitarist, he uses various multi-string and multi-tuning (nylon string) guitars, stretching the sound of his instrument as far as it goes and in any direction it takes him, while at the same time trying to firmly root his sounds into his Brazilian heritage. For Cavejaz, Do Nascimento organised three separate sessions – one as studio sessions with renowned UAKTI member Paulo Santos and Jennifer Souza back in Brazil, while the second was recorded live during a Tokyo concert with with veteran Japanese musician…