Fabiano do Nascimento and E Ruscha V
Aquáticos
Music from Memory
Fabiano do Nascimento is nothing if not prolific. The Rio de Janeiro-born, LA-based guitar player has released seven (yes, seven!) records since 2023 alone. For his eighth, which also happens to be his debut on the always reliable Music for Memory, he teams up with the only person whose pace might match his own, E Ruscha V (a.k.a. Eddie Ruscha). Ruscha has a CV that goes back to the early ’90s when he was in the shoegaze band Medicine. Since then, he’s dabbled in all sorts of projects, releasing horizontal club tunes for labels like Beats in Space and teaming up with fellow Balearic enthusiasts including Suzanne Kraft.
When two musicians have such expansive discographies, it can be hard to get a foothold in their work. Aquáticos, however, is a good primer to both of their back catalogs. Nascimento’s guitar playing is as lovely as it has ever been and Ruscha’s groovy but lethargic drum programming and sun-kissed synth patches are lush and gorgeous. Take the record highlight “Rain,” which sounds like a duet where the guitar and machines whisper to one another in a hushed back-and-forth on a lazy Saturday morning. On “Bio,” they start with the jazzy lilt of Nascimento’s guitar before Ruscha adds hushed pads and synthetic drips to turn it into the sort of space disco he used to release as Secret Circuit. This is a record that is both delicate and strange and is hopefully just the first meeting of the minds between these two cosmic weirdos.
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