You don’t make any sense

Sessa writes love songs the way the great Brazilian records of the seventies did — soft-spoken, sensual, a little cosmic. The São Paulo songwriter (born Sergio Sayeg) put “Pele da Esfera” — “skin of the sphere” — on Estrela Acesa, his 2022 album for Mexican Summer; this version was filmed live at Cineclube Cortina, in his hometown. You don’t need Portuguese for it. The melody carries the argument, and the argument is: come closer.