Introducing the far out collaboration of producers/composers João Milet Meirelles & Thomas Simon Vortex: Sonar Atmosfera! Dark ambient electronics. Tribal beats. Tuned down catchy guitar riffs drifting into space. Sparse, yet powerful vocals. Recorded and mixed in Salvador, Brazil, with Sonar Atmosfera Meirelles and Simon push to create their own genre.

1. Feel the Hope 04:03
2. Resist 04:04
3. Live For The Run 05:20
4. The Trip 06:24
5. A Dream 05:21
6. Fight With Love 02:52
7. My Story 10:59
8. Condor Jam 05:34
9. Manic World 04:17
10. On Land 09:31

N.Y. Music Daily album review:

Darkly Drifting, Reverb-Drenched Soundscapes From Sonar Atmosfera
by delarue

Since the late zeros, guitarist Thomas Simon has worked a darkly cinematic, swirling sound that veers from anthemic post-Bauhaus rock, to ominously epic instrumental tableaux, to hypnotic loopmusic. His latest project, appropriately titled Sonar Atmosfera – streaming at Bandcamp – is a collaboration with psychedelic tropical band Baianasystem‘s João Milet Meirelles. In a lot of ways it’s one long, brooding theme, but the subtle variations are very psychedelic. It’s a great late-night, lights-out listen.

Simon’s guitar flickers and crackles, awash in reverb and smoky atmospherics as the album’s first track, Feel the Hope gathers steam. A drumbeat enters the picture and suddenly this one-chord jam takes on a swaying insistence, akin to a trip-hop take on Pink Floyd’s Run Like Hell.

The second track, Resist is completely different, a lot closer to Baianasystem’s woozy, loopy dub: halfway through, Simon’s spare, resonant phrases add a distant ominousness. The guitar… mais
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lançado em 4 de abril de 2020

performed and produced by Thomas Simon & João Milet Meirelles // endorphin records 015