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Melancolia Tropical

by Artu

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1.
I wish I had a heart a heart to keep me warm in my moments of weakness in my moments of love I wish I had a heart a heart to keep me company in my moments of loneliness in my moments of lust
2.
Yesterday, I dreamt you were the moon You flew across my night sky You left me here so soon Today, I daydreamed you were the sun You warm me up inside and out You are the only one We were clouds Crashing into each other I was thunder And you were the rain We were the waves Love slow me down You are the only one
3.
Hold on to me let me Hold on to you You said it was okay to be absent But I know its not okay to be absent minded You know that I mean well Trying to keep this glass globe still But I need some help Hold on to me I'm going crazy let me Hold on to you I know what you're going through

about

These songs are honest captures of my summer of 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

Two of these songs came to me in dreams
One of them came to me while kissing the one that I love

one is about an addiction
one is about love
one is about heartache

Vocals, guitar, mistakes, rhodes piano and lots of tape hiss recorded live, unedited onto a Tascam646... the rest is left to the imagination of the listener.

For years I told myself I would release a project
that I’d be proud of and happy to identify with
For years I made over produced music for the sake
of keeping up with the times, with my friends, to just try
But recently I realized that what I love about music
is the simplicity of songs. This project almost didn’t come
to life because I kept telling myself stories about how these songs aren’t ready and I’m not ready. This summer I realized that if I was to wait until I was ready, all of my songs would stay with me and only me until I passed. I choose to let them go as they are. I choose to accept what I receive musically in dreams and otherwise. I choose to love what I love and I love happily.

Photo by Renelyn Quinicot Javier

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released May 8, 2018

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Arthur Bastos Toronto, Ontario

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