It’s been two years since São Paulo’s Sessa released the breakthrough album Grandeza—an album that the Brazilian pop musician explained is “about the natural gesture of love and the softness of the human body” and his “love for Brazilian music and its many shapes and colors.” Today, Sessa is continuing to nurture that love for vibrant hues with a visual for the album’s title track. Animation was done by São Paulo analog video artist Rollinos and Lisbon/NYC illustrator Bráulio Amado to create a fantastical atmosphere with cartoon hearts, flowers, and fruits swimming in a sea of vibrant, warm colors.
“It seems lately that the best way to deal with this world is to find ways to escape within it, even if only for a moment or two,” Sessa said in a statement. “Rollinos and Braulio have created such an escape for Grandeza, a vivid habitat of exotic forms crisscrossing underwater, over land, in the atmosphere. It was also really cool to have an excuse to hit up my dear friends who I miss [Paloma Mecozzi, Cecilia Goes, Laura Rosenbaum, and Sofia Botelho] who sang on the album to participate, that we could bring back some of the great interactions and moments of the record.”
Watch below and revisit the album here.
