World Gone Weird - Padre Paulo Santo (Side A)
Channel: Radio TV Tea Pee
Date: 2021-04-03

World Gone Weird - Padre Paulo Santo
Side A
1. City of the Dark River at the Foot of The Mountain 
2. War On Love
3. Midnight Mosaic
4. Strange Intermission

Recorded in isolation in Oliver Ray's desert hermitage in the midst of the pandemic and transition into a new weird world. These are my initial mixes and rough masters. I wanted to share this here first and maybe down the road we will do a limited pressing of the record in physical format. I recorded this album on an 8-track using piano, voice, an FM synth app, an 808 app, a mellotron app, a tiny bit of acoustic guitar, and that's about it. I like working with limitations and seeing where it takes me, working within a framework and pushing at the boundaries of said frame. 

I returned to the Sonoran Desert a few months into the pandemic, after two years living and touring in Europe. I wanted to reconnect with my tribe of outsiders and mystics, have conversations and pow wows about our present predicament, get back to the land as it were, and make DIY music in a teepee (in the end I chose a Stout bell tent) under the desert stars.

Since 2015 I have been recording under the names Trans Van Santos and Sonny Santos, but during many months of desert isolation and spiritual study, I was reconnected with the Divine, I had my "Road to Damascus" moment, and I found that a new name was in order to signify that I have been through an initiation, born anew, walking with spirit. As such, I present to you the first recordings of Padre Paulo Santos. If you dig it and want to reach out, you can email me at radiotvteapee@gmail.com