Sessa - Pequena Vertigem De Amor

‘Pequena Vertigem de Amor’ - the third full-length in Sergio Sayeg’s expanding catalogue as Sessa - is not just an evolution in the São Paulo artist’s sound; it is a transformation.
Like a camera lens slowly zooming out, Sessa’s records reveal a progression from the private, carnal and earth-bound erotic desires probed on 2019’s ‘Grandeza’, to an exploration of the limits and possibilities in relationships between people in love on 2022’s ‘Estrela Acesa’.
With ‘Pequena Vertigem de Amor’, which translates to ‘Lil’ Love Vertigo’, Sessa’s view turns upward, to the infinite sky, catching glimpses of universality in the intimacy of becoming a father.

Sessa says these songs “are a mix of personal chronicles and quiet meditations about life in the face of personal change, of experiencing something so big that you realize your insignificant size in space and time.”

On ‘Pequena Vertigem de Amor’, Sessa continues to expand his sonic palette, stretching in multiple dimensions simultaneously.
There’s an emphasis on rhythm and enhanced tempos, as he experiments with new vocal cadences and textures, and adds a bunch of musical instruments not heard on his previous recordings, like piano, synthesizer, wah-wah guitar and a primitive drum machine.

Sessa tracked his existential transformation to magnetic tape at Cosmo, the studio he cofounded with Biel Basile, over five sessions between April 2024 and March 2025.
Across nine tracks, Sessa reflects on his personal evolution, an experience that he says brings into sharp contrast “the ambiguities and contradictions in life, which is a place that always has inspired my writing.”

‘Pequena Vertigem de Amor’ reminds us that experiencing vertigo is simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating, sentiments that this collection of Sessa songs delivers lyrically and musically, fusing novel and familiar sounds, styles and instruments in celebration and wonderment of life’s ‘ordinary and extraordinary’ rites of passage.