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El Canto De Mi Patria 2013
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El Canto De Mi Patria

This album by R.U.S.S.O. arrived in 2015 with a sound that blends layers of organic electronics and lyrics flowing between Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. It doesn’t sound like a polished studio work, but rather like sessions where ideas were pieced together on the fly, with textures reminiscent of Ao Vivo without losing the freshness of improvisation. There’s an air of Cathedral Song that opens the album with a melody that repeats like an echo, almost as if the record breathes between long pauses and riffs that appear and vanish without warning. The most curious thing is how songs like Vento No Litoral, with its ethereal choruses, coexist alongside more rhythmic pieces like Mais Uma Vez, where bass and drums intertwine in a groove that asks for no permission.

Year
2013
Songs
15
Duration
57 min 19 seg
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About the album

El Canto De Mi Patria, according to DoReSol

Among the tracks that stand out the most is Wave / Come Fa Un 'Onda, a song that plays with the idea of waves rising and falling, both in the lyrics and structure. The live version of Quando Eu Estiver Cantando / Endless Love —recorded somewhere unnamed— captures that magic of mistakes that end up being right: the background voice that strays, the piano that rushes ahead, all wrapped in an intimate atmosphere that doesn’t repeat in studio versions. Also notable is A Cruz E A Espada, where the acoustic guitar blends with percussion that seems to come from another continent, as if the album were telling stories of two worlds at once.

The album wasn’t aiming to sound like something already heard. That’s why in Strani Amori or Scrivimi, there are moments where the synthesizer sounds like the 80s but the bass drags it forward, as if time didn’t matter. There were later reissues, but the essence remains intact: an album that doesn’t exhaust itself in a single listen, but invites you to get lost in its layers. If what you’re looking for is something with personality —something that sounds like a band playing in a basement with loose cables— this is a good place to start.