Yoñlu

Vinicius Gageiro Marques, known as Yoñlu, was a young Brazilian musician from Porto Alegre whose songs were found on his computer and released posthumously; he died by suicide on July 26, 2006 at age 16 and a Luaka Bop compilation appeared in 2009.

From Porto Alegre; son of an upper-middle-class family (review notes a university professor father and a psychoanalyst mother). Spent much time on the computer; songs were found on his hard drive and issued posthumously by Luaka Bop in 2009. Reviews compare his melancholic style to artists like Nick Drake and Elliott Smith and note mixtures of samba, chamber noise, trip-hop and electronic elements.

Two DeBaser reviews examine Yoñlu, the alias of Vinicius Gageiro Marques, whose songs were found on his computer and issued posthumously by Luaka Bop in 2009. Reviewers describe the music as melancholic, experimental, mixing samba, lo-fi electronics and acoustic fingerpicking. Both accounts emphasize his youth and death by suicide at age 16. The album is framed as a private, intense stream-of-consciousness made public after his death.

For:Listeners of melancholic, lo-fi, experimental singer-songwriter music; fans of Nick Drake/Elliott Smith-style introspection and curious listeners of Brazilian indie music.