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Issue №5● LIVE
● Editor's Note

Nylon-string guitar, Latin sway, and a devotion to Jobim: Robert Flenner builds "Bossa Sway" on feel first.

Robert Flenner writes with a nylon-string guitar and lets Latin and pop influences settle over the top. Everything starts with a relaxed, sophisticated Brazilian rhythm, and what follows is the movement it puts in the room. Bossa Sway carries the same devotion to Jobim that has shaped his sound from the beginning.
● The Interview

How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you before, and what makes it undeniably you?

Features nylon string guitar with some Latin and pop influences

What's the story behind the music you're releasing right now? Where did it come from emotionally?

My love for the music of Jobim

What do you want listeners to feel when they first press play, and what do you want them to feel when it ends?

First the relaxed, sophisticated Brazilian rhythm. Then the movement you feel.

If your music were a place, what would it look like, smell like, feel like?

Rio

Is there a sound, instrument, or texture you keep returning to, one that shows up even when you don't plan it?

Guitar nylon string

How do you know when a song is finished, and have you ever gone back and changed something you thought was done?

Perhaps one of the most difficult questions to answer sometimes it feels like never

What do you do when creativity stops flowing? How do you get it back?

Listen to music, take a walk

What would you never compromise on, no matter how big the opportunity?

Compromise my values

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