• Felinto - Utopia Milhão
  • Felinto - Utopia Milhão

Felinto - Utopia Milhão

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Our beloved Bokeh Versions back for one (last?!) 2k25 bang, with this belter of a tape from Sao Paulo's very own Felinto... This tape is released in conjunction with Spain's 'Glossy Mistakes' label, the one that we'll eternally thank for reissuing that Tito LP, amongst other greats.

Great to see the flame on the candle is still light, and the romance with bringing great, unique-thinking music out to the world continues...

We're always happy to hear what Miles has to say about the music, so please let us pass on the mic:

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Bokeh Versions (UK) and Glossy Mistakes (ES) present.....

Mischievous festa punk meets astral steppas, kalaedoscopic free ambient meets harsh noise, scattered amen breaks and free jazz trumpets meets the earthly plod of digidub. It can only be Felinto!

UTOPIA MILHÃO honors the life forces that allow us to transform the darkness where dreams reside. The album brings a new moment of intimacy for Felinto’s musical expression flowing through dirty, raw, dense and brilliant dub fractals, ready to transform unexpectedly into a new shape then another, and another, and another... featuring collaborations with magical people: Sarine (Deafkids), Douglas Leal (Deafkids), Guizado (Afrobombas), Sandra X, Paula Rebellato (Rakta), Lorena Hollander, Yao Bobby, Kiko Dinucci, Paulo Papaleo, Cint Murphy, Rodrigo Lima.

Felinto is a political agitator and musician at the heart of the São Paulo underground - a movement that confronts the various effects of the capitalist system of racial, sexual, creative and material oppression.

His provocations range from yoga for children and parenting studies (SACYOGA), theatre (PROJETO CRIOULOS and PROJETO JAMES BALDWIN), web series highlighting the black presence in electronic music in São Paulo (MODULAÇÃO PRETA), reflective groups on gender violence and masculinities, occupation of public spaces for political art (Coletivo Sistema Negro), artistic curatorship (Residência SOMSOCOSMOS) and studies with sound as a tool in conflict mediation practices. Felinto composes for film, theatre and immersive installations such as MEGACITIES presented at the National Gallery of Victoria, Canada in 2023.

He is currently researching - as part of a masters project in clinical psychology - the collectivised dream realities of black people. A field of action that contemporary anthropology, psychoanalysis and psychology call ONIROPOLITICA.

His interest in affinity groups, autonomous networks of micro-political articulation and penal abolitionism led him to the questions: what do black people dream about within the permanent context of civil war and state violence (like the one in Brazil)? How does this experience create dreams and how does the dream affect the construction of identities beyond the boundaries established by the capitalist unconscious? Questions like these give rise to the albums:

UTOPIA MILHÃO - Bokeh Versions / Glossy Mistakes (2024)
NO TURN - Bokeh Versions / Lovers & Lollypops (2022)
Future Ancient Perpetual - Bokeh Versions (2021)
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All songs composed by Felinto
Sound design and dubs: Felinto
Eletronics: Felinto, Kiko Dinucci
Keys: Kiko Dinucci, Felinto
Field Recording: Yao Bobby
Flute: Douglas Leal
Guitars: Kiko Dinucci
Koto: Lorena Hollander
Percussion: Sarine, Douglas Leal, Paulo Papaleo, Kiko Dinucci
Vocals: Paula Rebellato, Sandra X, Joao Kombi, Felinto,
Trumpets: Romulo Alexis, Guizado

Mastering Engineer: Damian Schwartz
Mixing engineers: Andre Leal, Kleber Mariano no Estudio Jukebox
Artwork: Douglas Leal
Art director: Douglas Leal
Design: BKV industrial

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