Daryl Worthington
, March 4th, 2021 09:12
From restaurant themed sound art to saz led psych jams and pogoing black metal, Daryl Worthington finds the tape scene continues to shine a light throughout these weird days
A/C Repair School is the Brazilian duo of Rafael de Toledo Pedroso and Carolina Simionato (who also makes music as Soft Verges), and on new album Órfãs, they produce something remarkably lucid from the barest instrumentation. Their songs deal with abandonment (the album’s title translates to orphans), and not just in the lyrics – it’s inscribed into the very music itself. Simionato’s vocals on ‘bom demais pra ser mentira’ have a torch song quality, but pulled into the fuzz it feels fragile and isolated – a love song broadcast into the void.
Carolina Simionato (who releases music under the moniker
Rafael de Toledo Pedroso (a prolific solo artist and one half of
Pedroso & Pedrosa), musical expression means giving way to the urges and movements of our deepest mental recesses. Though only making music together for a year and change, their debut record,
Órfãs, exists in a singular dream world built on founding principles of openness and exploration. “One of the first things me and Carol found ourselves in agreement [on] was basically realizing that making music for A/C Repair School sounded like a dream literally, music from our dreams, as if we could access that same mindstate musically,” says Pedroso. Delivered as gritty shells of lo-fi songs,