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Fabiano Do Nascimento set to release new album, Cavejaz

24 October 2025

Based between Los Angeles and Tokyo, Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and producer Fabiano do Nascimento is known for his imaginative blend of Brazilian traditions with modern sounds. He has announced a new album that sees him continuing to explore new musical landscapes. Entitled Cavejaz, the title was suggested by his friend Sam Gendel, who is also credited with the album’s artwork. “Kind of sounds like music coming from a cave with water and organic elements,” Fabiano commented.

Cavejaz sprouted from a conversation with Minas Gerais singer and songwriter Jennifer Souza, who suggested that Fabiano record with Paulo Santos, a founding member of the influential Brazilian group UAKTI. In August 2024, Fabiano and Santos recorded at Studio Ilha do Corvo in Belo Horizonte with producer Leo Marques. The sessions took place during a difficult moment for Brazil, as widespread wildfires filled the air with smoke and forced the musicians indoors. “But,” Fabiano says, “we managed to have a good time still, and to enjoy recording the open and free ideas that would come up. Leo would just hit record, and we would just play.”

The second part of Cavejaz took shape in Japan, where Fabiano performed and recorded with U-zhaan, a renowned tabla player. Their live performance in a noh-gaku-doh theater in Tokyo was recorded and included on the album, alongside additional recordings Fabiano completed solo at SALO studio in Oiso. Fabiano explains:

“So the project became a selection of what I recorded in Minas Gerais in studio with Paulo and Jennifer in August 2024, and the rest live in Japan, with one exception being live recording from a concert I performed in Los Angeles with my longtime bandmate, the percussionist Ricardo ‘Tiki’ Pasillas (Salvador). The material made sense together.”

Cavejaz was recorded across three countries, but it has a natural flow throughout, with the music centred on guitar and handmade percussion, augmented by U-zhaan’s tabla and Tiki’s hybrid percussion setup. The album arrives on November 21st through Leaving Records and ahead of it, Fabiano has shared the magnificent and soothing opener ‘Aguas Serenas’ as the first single. Take a listen below.

Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel team up for collaborative album, The Room

15 November 2023

Incredibly ambitious and creative, and a mainstay in the Los Angeles’ contemporary jazz scene, Sam Gendel is both prolific and fluid in a variety of genres, constantly rolling out new solo and collaborative works. The multi-instrumentalist and producer’s latest venture saw him team up with LA-based Brazilian 7-string guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento and a 10-track instrumental album entitled The Room is the fruit of this union.

“In 2011 I was in a Latin jazz group called Triorganico,” do Nascimento explained. “We had a gig at a restaurant owned by Sam’s cousin, who invited him along. Sam brought his sax and sat in.” He continues, “We were making music that we had a real mutual appreciation for,I was always joking that Sam should play flute, and he tried multiple things before he got this unique [flute] sound out of his soprano. Most people don’t actually realise that it’s a saxophone.”

Each track on the upcoming The Room taps “into the rhythms and regions of a South America without borders”, as the press release describes, and some draw from indigenous melodies, and popular old Brazilian tunes.

We’ll have to wait until January 26th for The Room to be out through Real World Records but we can already hear the gorgeous and celestial first single, ‘Foi Boto’ . Here it is.