Ricardo Dias Gomes Aa

Caetano Veloso's bandmate collaborates with Arto Lindsay on new album Aa - its
bold, experimental sound heralds an artist following in their hallowed footsteps. A
respected innovator on the Rio de Janeiro music scene since the mid 90s, Gomes is
best known for his work on the trio of critically-acclaimed albums Caetano Veloso
released in the late 00s: Cê (2006), Zii and Zie (2009) and Abraçaço (2012). Playing
bass on these modern milestones in post-Tropicalia, and subsequently touring the
world with Veloso, inspired Gomes to record his debut album -11, released in 2015.
On -11 Gomes played all the instruments himself and relied solely on his instincts in
terms of the direction to take: The Wire praised the album saying it "recalls other
rough and ready highly personal solo debut albums by Laetitia Sadier and Money
Mark" whilst the Chicago Reader fell for it's "weirdly hermetic sound world,
alternating between tender, introspective ballads, rude electronic grooves, and
dissonant ambience."