Sessa, is the project of Brazilian artist Sergio Sayeg, releases “Nome de Deus” (“Name of God”), the second single off his forthcoming album, Pequena Vertigem de Amor, available November 7th via Mexican Summer (Cate Le Bon, Ice Age). “Nome de Deus” finds Sessa, collaborating with the pianist, Marcelo Maita, the younger brother of São Paulo samba jazz legend Amado Maita.

In making Pequena Vertigem de Amor, a cosmic connection by way of his son’s pre-school yielded a missing musical ingredient—an “element on piano, which I had never put in my music, that fulfilled my search for a classic samba jazz sound,” Sessa says. A fellow musician and parent suggested Maita, and he invited him to contribute a few songs, including today’s single. Maita’s rhythmic and urgent piano stabs on “Nome de Deus” steer the piece through its absence of Sessa’s guitar. Over the heightened musical tension of Maita’s staccato attacks and Biel Basile’s aggressive percussion, Sessa’s impassioned vocals assert agency in defiance of deities, primal urges in conflict with nature’s laws: “I never came to know god’s name // I don’t bow to man’s law and I know best” (“nunca soube o nome de deus // não me curvo a lei dos homens e quem sabe sou eu.”) The accompanying video is directed by Rollinos.

Sessa says the songs on Pequena Vertigem de Amor “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.” This new perspective and reality remade his personal life and his connection to music: “For the first time I saw music move from the center to the side of my life.” The radical reordering of priorities presented fresh opportunities in his music. “In an interesting way, music became more mixed with my life,” Sessa notes, as he found ways to conjure melodies, lyrics and inspiration from the daily rhythms of life.

Sessa 2025 Tour Dates:

Wed. Nov. 5 – Tokyo, JP @ WWW
Fri. Feb. 6 – Lisbon, PT @ Casa do Capitão
Sat. Feb. 7 – Espinho, PT @ Auditório de Espinho
Mon. Feb. 9 – Manchester, UK @ YES (Pink Room)
Tue. Feb. 10 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Wed. Feb. 11 – London, UK @ Rich Mix
Fri. Feb. 13 – Paris, FR @ le Hasard Ludique
Sat. Feb. 14 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
Sun. Feb. 15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
Tue. Feb. 17 – Frankfurt, DE @ Brotfabrik
Wed. Feb. 18 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
Thu. Feb. 19 – Berlin, DE @ Mikropol
Fri. Feb. 20 – Cologne, DE @ Stadtgarten
Sat. Feb. 21 – Utrecht, NL @ Footprints Festival

Pre-order/save Pequena Vertigem de Amor by Sessa HERE