“Tenderness” is the first collaborative album between Japanese musician Yumi Iwaki and Brazilian Carlos Ferreira using unreleased sketches, improvisations, and samples, “Tenderness” is a mosaic of painted sounds that does not end in itself, inviting the listener to inhabit its center.

Porto Alegre based experimental guitarist Carlos Ferreira and Tokyo-based synthesizer hypnotist Yumi Iwaki are presenting "Tenderness" , their first ever collaborative album through Modern Obscure Music. Carlos and Yumi have created this powerful ambient odyssey at the distance. Despite some connections between Yumi's family roots with the Brazilian musical scene, both artists feel a strong attraction about their cultural differences, through Literature, films, scents, colors, and nature… Carlos feels “there are infinite cultural differences between Japan and Brazil, and this can be explained by historical and even geographical factors, but people come together through very strong elements that are able to transcend these differences. Diversity must also unite us.”. Yumi explains that when she met Carlos on Instagram, she was instantly captivated by “his quiet, deep and fantastic view of the world, the feelings we shared seemed to take shape naturally, but it was Carlos' great talent to complete the production...  more
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released September 2, 2022

Yumi Iwaki: modular & analog synthesizers, op-1, piano, voice, FX pedals, looper, field recordings, sampling.
Carlos Ferreira: electric guitar, bowed guitar, FX pedals, digital synthesizers, looper, field recordings, sampling.

Written & produced by Yumi Iwaki & Carlos Ferreira
Mixed & mastered by Carlos Ferreira

Tactile Memories

04 Sips From The Cup_MASTER

03 A Moment Of Patience (Bloom)_MASTER

05 No Wi-Fi_MASTER

01 Good Morning, Coffee (Opening)_MASTER

06 Life After Coffee (Closing)_MASTER

02 Brew Time/Manual Drip_MASTER

Híbrido

Doppelgänger

"A Glimpse Of Hope" is about the need to build a home for hope during dark times. 

Released by © Healing Sound Propagandist 
HSP-04 | MMXIX 
healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com/album/a-glimpse-of-hope
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released November 11, 2019 

Written and performed by Carlos Ferreira using only guitars / loop pedals 
Mixed and mastered by Carlos Ferreira 
Layout and design by 扎克 

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© Healing Sound Propagandist 
HSP-04 | MMXIX 
pastinsidethepresent.com/hsp 
healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com

// A Glimpse Of Hope (Healing Sound Propagandist, 2019) [Full Album]

Carlos Ferreira is an Brazilian experimental guitarist & composer, whose work is concerned with the nature of listening, and explores the relationship between sound, space, time & memory. Artist at Past Inside The Present (USA), Modern Obscure Music (Spain) and AKP Recordings (USA), he has released albums on several labels worldwide, including ARCHIVES (Spain), 梅レコード / Umé Records (Japan), Giraffe Tapes (Georgia), Aural Canyon, Atlantic Rhythms & Mystery Circles (USA), among others.

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