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Another brilliant soul lost to suicide. I found this 16 year old Brazilian artist on Emusic today and I was transformed to my youth. Memories of Leonard Cohen, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastion come quickly when you listen to these heart felt songs written out of love and depression. -Marshe
"I know what it's like to be left out when all your friends try the new hip suicide thing," sang young Brazilian songwriter Yonlu — AKA Vinicius Gageiro Marques — in what became the first track of a remarkable posthumous debut assembled from music the 16-year-old left behind after himself committing suicide in 2006. ("Yonlu" was the screen name Marques used on the songwriters’ bulletin board where he posted several of these tracks). Some of the songs on this surprisingly uplifting collection — notably "I Know What It's Like," "Luana (Mêcanica Celeste Aplicada)," and "Waterfall" — stand up with the best Brazilian popular music on record. Others are obviously the work of a young experimentalist who had yet to find his voice and, in a very real sense, died trying.
Several tunes on A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed... address suicide directly, though usually with a deceptive, self-mocking wink. "I'll tell you why I wanna die," Yonlu sings of his latest romantic failure in "Humiliations"; he cries wolf again in the strangely literal "Suicide," which concludes, "Now my suicide is lit by the sunset/ It's pretty sad if you ask me." Indeed. As artistically precocious as he was emotionally fragile, Yonlu sounds more mature and confident in Portuguese — check out his suave cover of Vitor Ramil's "Estrela, Estrela" and "Luana (Mêcanica Celeste Aplicada)," a lush tropicalia-infused nod to sweet American teenage pop circa 1956 or so — than singing in his self-taught English. At his best, Yonlu combines the cerebral sophistication of tropicalia star Caetano Veloso with the tragic fragility of Nick Drake. Yet judging by the rough edits and musique concréte of tracks like "The Boy and the Tiger" and "Q-Tip," Yonlu had plenty of room to grow as a sonic scientist. His wordless crooning in "Waterfall" is guaranteed to blend brilliantly with Panda Bear on your next heartbreak-inspired mixtape.
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What makes me mad is to see that those people from alt.suicide.methods newsgroup on usenet are all alive and well. They helped to kill Vinicius. The kid was a freaking genius, at 4 learned to play the drums, later guitar, self taught english and at 12 years old he was already reading Sartre and Kafka. He could postpone his suicide, I mean if those freaks on usenet tried to tell him that pain is temporary, suicide is permanent... he was only 16years old! Didnt have a girlfriend even. Yes he was a bright genius kid but trapped in a teenager body. The guy who told about the charcoal suicide method on alt.suicide.holiday and alt.suicide.method was a guy in his fifties, most of those killers in these newsgroups are pretty much alive and well, just teaching more kids to CTB. Yonlu is always remembered, many brazilian magazines talked about his passing, brazilian Rolling Stone magazine, Revista Epoca, Revista Aplauso, and several newspapers. Suicide is something the media cannot talk about. But this whole internet friends helping kids to kill themselves is just sickening. I'm glad when I was 16years old, I didn't have access to to the web... otherwise I would probably be gone, I mean the last thing you need when you are depressed and suicidal is someone online telling you to just do it, go and remove yourself from the gene pool. That's what they told Vinicius. Someone in Canada contacted Interpol and they got the brazilian police to rescue the boy, but it was too late... The cops and his grandfather found the young boy dead. He left behind his mom, his father, grandpa, his cat called Albert and a ton of friends at school, his best friend Luana who dedicated most of his song. I really think this suicide could be avoided, if someone online tried to talk him out of it. He told his parents to be away because he invited friends to a barbecue party. They gave him privacy because he was such an intelligent and caring son. Who would ever think he would be so desperate that he would kill himself? R.I.P. Yonlu.
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