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Quinto Relat​ó​rio Anual

by Pandit Pam Pam

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1.
Freedamn 04:04
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Olhos I 02:37
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Radio 02:33 video
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(A) Mar 07:04
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Soroko 2 04:33
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Bondade 02:34
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Olhos II 03:00

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Quinto Relatório Anual’ is the latest release from São Paulo electronic artist, Pandit Pam Pam. The follow up album to his 2020 EP, ‘Quarto Relatório Anual’. The artist uses much of the same instrumentation, intuition and improvisation more commonly found in performance than cut to tape.

The eight track release straddles ambient and post-club, the collection feels bucolic and futuristic at once.

“I recorded mostly in deep summer in the countryside. Surrounded by trees and lots of sun. I was looking through the window at a small gathering of lemon trees and orange trees. This record is full of mistakes. But I think this is life. Everything is too perfect nowadays and the beauty of life and nature is chance, mistakes, and randomness.”

Bandcamp Record Of The Day By Miles Bowe · September 01, 2021

The prefix “post” carries a lot of weight when attached to a musical subgenre, suddenly implying a before, an after, and some major evolution or deconstruction in between. The tender synth pieces drifting through Pandit Pam Pam’s Quinto Relatório Anual are tagged as “post-club,” but for São Paulo producer Eduardo Ramos the term is refreshingly literal. This brief, beguiling album feels designed for late-night, pre-dawn hours, channeling an intimate atmosphere through tracks as delicate and mysterious as flowers blooming in moonlight.

Quinto Relatório Anual soothes the ear the moment Ramos’s synths float into view on the gentle opener “Freedamn,” but its palette never feels sanded-down. Tracks like “Olhos I” and “Bondade” conjure thick ambience, while the lively “Soroko 2” cuts through with tumbling percussion and synths recalling the acid-fried energy of James Holden’s The Inheritors. “Indonesia Print” and the twinkling standout “Radio” strike a sweet spot for Quinto Relatório Anual, but it’s the sprawling outlier “(A) Mar” that makes good on the Throbbing Gristle reference in the album title (which translates to “Fifth Annual Report,” a nod to TG’s first and second albums. The seven-minute track casts an ominous fog, echoing the industrial pioneers’s own unsettling subversions of easy-listening like “Beachy Head” and “Exotica,” generating an eerie chill right at the album’s center. Taken as a whole, Quinto Relatório Anual is an immensely pleasurable listen with just enough wrinkles; an album to soothe the mind and provoke the imagination in equal measure.

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released August 26, 2021

All songs were composed, produced and recorded by Eduardo Ramos.
Mastered by Joseph Buchan.
Artwork by A Little Colour.
Originally Released by Music Company in 2021

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Pandit Pam Pam São Paulo, Brazil

Reformed DJ, DIY vermouth enthusiast and analog cooking.

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