Ivo Escobar

Ivo played heavy metal and Japanese rock, then classic rock in cover bands, as a drummer, since 2005. In 2008, Plaise started writing original songs in Japanese, but didn't record with professional tools. Then came Mutus, an instrumental trio. After parting ways, Most Wanted and Das Neves played some gigs, but Ivo wrote songs by himself starting in 2018. His SoundCloud and Bandcamp have several self-produced songs, including "Small Gift", "The Fire Fades" and "Modest" (the last with ONErpm). Later came many singles on Bandcamp, and the album "Privacy for whom?", and more recently, "Expectations from a fuckboy". The songs Ivo writes approach a range of personal events through a critic lens, often sarcastic and acid, in a life marked by difficulty in relationships and shortcomings in many aspects, especially support while living on the internet and navigating a writing career and a corporate world perception that his extensive work as a teacher didn't fit the standards. Some of the themes are political, the lyrics can allude to some explicit acts, but it's always an effort to grab the listener's attention to a story not often told -- which is, in fact, his.