himalion - WYSIATI [SINGLE]

exactly one year ago me and Inês Barreira recorded this super weird video in Ilha do Pico in Azores on WYSIATI, Diogo Sarabando reflects on themes of memory, anxiety of letting go and moving on and the interplay between past/present/future, all through the lens of the cognitive bias coined by Daniel Kahneman which highlights how we tend to make judgments based on readily available information while ignoring what’s not immediately present after touring the debut LP BLOOMING, Diogo cast anchor at Henry Simões’ "Lost in Pico" - a friend’s house in “Ilha do Pico”, the mountain island in the mid-Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. Up in its attic he set up a small cabin like studio, and over the course of 3 weeks (spent between Terceira, São Miguel, Pico and Faial) with the gaze magnetically bound to the colossal Pico mountain, amongst the cryptomeria forests and feet deep in the volcanic sand bathed in Atlantic blue, Diogo started the seed work that would eventually develop into WYSIATI not long after, Diogo enrolled in a transformative School of Song course led by Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes. School of Song’s strong focus on community building and the educational safe harbour approach served as a catalyst for the exploration of WYSIATI’s crux: “the mind doesn’t account for chance and falsely assumes the future will be similar to the past” in other words: life is always flowing, there’s hope in the end at the end of the course, Robin graciously donated a professional recording and mixing budget to Diogo which allowed him to fulfil one of himalion’s initial goals: collaborating with a greater spectrum of musicians, particularly from Aveiro WYSIATI, the sophomore record of himalion, is a collection of 14 new songs that will come out soon ~CREDITS~ written, recorded and produced from September of 2021 to May of 2024 written at puppy garden studios and lost in pico recorded at puppy garden studios, casa da música (Ílhavo), lost in pico and wakai studios produced by Diogo Sarabando first violin MARIANA MOITA second violin BEATRIZ CAPOTE viola JOÃO DIOGO cello JOANA CARVALHO upright bass MARGARIDA ROCHA trumpet JOÃO SOUSA trombones JOÃO SECO and RICARDO NEVES flute JOÃO SAMUEL SILVA french horns FÁBIO ROCHA and RÚBEN ALMEIDA saxophone on "...all there was" BLUE SHEFFER back vocals BEATRIZ CAPOTE drums RÚBEN TEIXEIRA drums and percussion MICAEL LOURENÇO vocals, all guitars, bass, piano and keys DIOGO SARABANDO string and horn arrangements transcribed by Rúben Teixeira additional studio and music gear provided by Zé Fernando and Carla Teixeira at Arte e Som and Rúben Teixeira at Wakai Studios mixed by Phil Weinrobe at Sugar Mountain, Brooklyn, NY mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering NYC, Brooklyn, NY video gear and video production assistance by Henry Simões footage gathered around Ilha do Pico and Ilha do Faial in March of 2024 by Diogo Sarabando and Inês Barreira additional production assistance by Rúben Teixeira, Micael Lourenço, Hugo Capela, Federica Teixeira, Luís Paradinha, Bárbara Ornelas, Ana Alves and Inês Barreira ~WITH THE SUPPORT OF~ Robin Pecknold Henry Simões at Lost in Pico Zé Fernando and Carla Teixeira at Arte e Som Rúben Teixeira at Wakai Studios Blue, Steven and everyone at School of Song timba, friends and family himalion BANDCAMP - https://himalion.bandcamp.com SPOTIFY - https://spoti.fi/3eqDfTr APPLE MUSIC - https://music.apple.com/pt/artist/him... INSTAGRAM -   / himalion.music   FACEBOOK -   / himalion   PUPPY GARDEN STUDIOS INSTAGRAM -   / puppygardenstudios   LOST IN PICO https://www.lostinpico.com/ WAKAI STUDIOS https://wakaistudios.com/pt/ ARTE E SOM https://arteesom.com/ SCHOOL OF SONG https://schoolofsong.org/ ~ now I know why Eddie would go ~ © ℗ 2024 himalion