A JOURNEY OF CLARITY DISTILLED THROUGH INTOXICATION AND DISILLUSIONMENT.
Brazilian Pedro Cesario and Californian Carey Clayton, give birth to B.A.D.A.`s debut studio record Exile.
Like (and perhaps in a more gentle way than) the cross-genre project Notes on a conditional form from their contemporaries The 1975, Exile is deliberately uncompromised with its labels. The duo fusions latin electronica with lo-fi house in “Sounds of Violence” (currently featured in Spotify`s Nu-Funk Editoral playlist), while darker sequences lead by the exhilarating “Weather the Storm”, and the symphonious “New Way of Seeing” seems to define the sonic aesthetic of the album.
The 2-year process of making the record between Brooklyn (Carey`s project studio), New York City (Germano Studios) and London (The Gatehouse at Abbey Road Studios) involved Academy-nominee John Barret, Grammy-nominee John Buttler and indie gems from UK, Rayon Nelson and Emmavie, and US, Darius Christian, Jessica Carvo and Luke Moelman (GGFO) as some of the collaborators. Recordings with the London Youth Choir and the Harlem Choir were saved for the duo`s sophomore album, on the making.
The convergence of Clayton’s prolific music arsenal – whose talent has been revered for more than a decade in the american indie scene – with Cesario`s alluring self-taught bossa, yields a refreshing sound, already acclaimed by Rolling Stone, GQ and NPR as one to watch in 2021.
Perhaps what gives their debut a unique accent is the fact that the narrative objectifies its own creation: A blueprint of Cesario’s music baptism, the idealization of his artistry, and the ramification of the duo`s encounter into their individual and collective identities.
The short-film trilogy directed in collaboration with filmmakers Gary Gananian and Francesco Grimaldi concludes now with an epilogue for the track “New Way of Seeing”.
Despite not revealing the meaning of their acronym, the duo gives us more depth into their psiques while embodying identical alter-egos that merge into one in a final dance scene.
Through the journey of creation and ultimately destruction of their self-representative effigy, Exile leaves us in a mysterious trance, wondering what is to come next from the duo.
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