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Ten years after his last release, the acclaimed Fortaleza, Fernando Catatau returns with Cidadão Instigado, a self-titled album that marks both the 30th anniversary of the project and the beginning of an entirely new creative phase, conceived and led by Catatau alone. The record is out now through the RISCO label in partnership with Nublu Records.
This is not a retrospective. It is a reinvention that knows exactly where it comes from.
The Collaborators
The album brings together a constellation of artists that spans generations and scenes. Who will be revealed along with the rest of the track names when the album releases on March 25, 2026. Each was chosen because they speak directly to Catatau's creative world, participants in the process, not additions to it.
How It Was Made
The album was born from Catatau's inner world during pandemic isolation, a period of heightened introspection that collided unexpectedly with a new obsession: a Roland MV-8800 sampler, newly acquired, that sent him deep into the universe of beats and electronic music. He built tracks for what he calls "unconventional dancers," navigating the mental and sensory turbulence of the moment with the discipline of someone who had been making music for three decades.
The result speaks directly to contemporary urban life and the cultural multiplicity of the Brazilian metropolis. Electronic timbres and digital noise merge with a way of singing that belongs to the street, the dance floor, the random late-night walk, and the underground dive, always in counterpoint to the natural world: moon, clouds, sea, air. Present and futuristic. Profound and dancefloor-ready.
The Lead Single: "Consciência"
The album's key point of entry, released March 5, "Consciência" encapsulates the entire project in miniature. The track drops the listener into a casual everyday scene, a neighborhood, a gathering of friends, where the narrator quietly asserts something disarming: that every passion, every love story, is an invention. And yet, for that very reason, no less real.
Balancing subtle electronic textures, guitars used more as gesture than statement, and a melody Catatau describes as carrying a "liquid identity", familiar and mutant at once, "Consciência" reconnects listeners with the Cidadão Instigado they know: the romantic songwriter, the implicit rocker, the solitary observer in the crowd.
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releases March 25, 2026 via selo RISCO and Nublu Records