MARCO LAFERAND ISABELA VDD; EMILY JOHNSTON
“THE
thing about the Tropicália movement in the ’60s and ’70s is they would bring all the influences from the world of music and mix it in a Brazilian way. I wanted to make something that would bring some of those elements back and connect it with music in the moment. I feel that people are getting the connection.” So says Tim Bernardes, the 31-yearold São Paulo singer whose lush, metaphysical folk is making waves far beyond his homeland, where he’s something of an indie star (“I get recognised in certain neighbourhoods”). When we speak, Bernardes is in New York, halfway through his first US tour, opening for Fleet Foxes as the guest of Robin Pecknold, who also invited him to sing on “Going-To-The-Sun Road” on their recent album Shore.