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The story tragic story of Yonlu is almost too unbelievable to summarize. In July 2006, a hyper-talented, Internet-savvy Brazilian teen by the name of Vinicius Gageiro Marques committed suicide in his bathroom. Left behind was a letter asking his parents to listen to his music if they ever missed him, and pouring through his computer they found a trove of sounds he’d sent to people around the world under the name Yonlu. The praise was deafening, fans from across the globe had fallen for Marques’ shadowy, strange acoustic beach folk—eerily suggestive of Elliott Smith but also tied to his roots in bossa nova and Brazilian gaucho music. Those recordings have since surfaced in various forms and places, most traditionally through David Bryne’s Luaka Bop imprint, who will release a new collection of Yonlu songs, A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre, on April 14th. Preview two of the songs below, and read the whole incredible back story in the bio section of his artist page.
Sounds like: Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Beirut
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