Formula Indie Sessions : Interview with Wolf Fechus

What is your earliest memory connected to music?

The first memory I have with music is watching the musical theater “Ser Minas Tão Gerais” with my mother, when I was 4, with Milton Nascimento songs and Carlos Drummond de Andrade poems. My parents (Wolf Borges and Jucilene Buosi) are musicians, singers also.

How did your passion for creating music begin?

The passion started from the first moment I sang on stage. When I was 9, my father saw me singing a song at home and said “Son, won’t you go singing with dad please?” and so I said “Okay!” and the first moment I came there I started to feel powerful and at home on stage.

What’s the story behind your current music project?

Fechus, my EP I released now in 2025 and it started the moment I watched Caroline Polachek Tiny Desk Concerts for the first time. It inspired me a lot to do an acoustic project like that, and since I released all of this story started.

How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?

I don’t like that much the stigma some people put on me of “MPB” artist or Brazilian rock. I use to define myself as an eclectic artist, I already recorded many genres, such as Maracatu, Congado, Forró, EDM…

What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?

Well, I always liked rhythm a lot, but I don’t have any coordination to do it, and so I got some classes at college with Ari Colares, a great percussionist here from Brazil that use to play in many countries, so I started to study that by myself and improvise more with rhythms and hear more rhythmical music.

What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?

I use to write my songs with guitar or piano, all of my music starts with an initial riff, so these two tools are essential to my compositional and creative process, even though I am not a great guitarist and pianist.

Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?

I have a lot of friends here from São Paulo that are starting on or doing indie music for years, and so I use to support them by watching their shows. I don’t have an specifical song that I do love, but, an indie band called me attention these days, called “Gato Celeste”, by my friend Hector de Paula.

How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?

A lot. I think that writing songs is putting your point of view of living and world on paper.

What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?

I like to do music that my listener can identify themself. It’s not a specific emotion or message I think that they can leave for life, I just hope that I can share my messages and points of view with them and they say things like “Oh, really, Wolf has a point!”.

What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?

Things are unpredictable when you live by your own music, always have a nest egg because you really don’t know when you’re going to be sick or when your voice is going to fail, is an advice of mine that I don’t follow.

What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?

I honestly lowered my expectations, but I think that a dream that could come true is playing at the Coala Festival or Primavera Sound. I don’t know if I already have the artistic maturity for it, but it’s a dream.

If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?

I’d love to do a song or sing with Moraes Moreira and/or Al Jarreau, pretty different, but it would be nice.

Where can our listeners follow and support your music?(Website,Spotify, IG, links)

They can follow me on Instagram @wolffechus and listen to me on Spotify, by searching my name, Wolf Fechus.

Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?

I’m testing a new show format, with experimentations, some crazy songs like Björk things. I think that I want to follow that way, but I still don’t know if I will record an album next year or just do shows, but the interpretation shows I’m really doing.

What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?

I think that they will discover a face of me I’ve never shown, it’s just the start of a journey. This will take a lot of time to present to my public, but I will one day, even if it takes me years and years and courage.