Arnab Sengupta
What Goes Around Comes Around
There’s something unforced about What Goes Around Comes Around, the latest album from singer-songwriter Arnab Sengupta. It doesn’t arrive with noise or bright lights, but with the kind of calm that comes from someone who’s taken their time. Across eight original tracks, Sengupta pulls from jazz, soul, and swing, not for nostalgia’s sake, but to build a space where reflection feels welcome.
These aren’t songs trying to impress. They’re moments to sit with. Each one feels like it started as a quiet idea, something half-said at first, slowly shaped over weeks until the right notes and words settled into place. Sengupta’s voice moves gently across the arrangements, never rushing. He sounds more like he’s sharing something than performing it.
These aren’t songs trying to impress. They’re moments to sit with. Each one feels like it started as a quiet idea, something half-said at first, slowly shaped over weeks until the right notes and words settled into place. Sengupta’s voice moves gently across the arrangements, never rushing. He sounds more like he’s sharing something than performing it.
The album features a solid group of collaborators: bassist Yoshiki Yamada, drummer Bruno Werner, saxophonist Wagner Barbosa, flautist Guilherme Andrades, and guitarist-producer Rafael Bissacot. Their playing is confident but never showy. Every part feels like it belongs exactly where it is, nothing more, nothing less.
What Goes Around Comes Around doesn’t push for attention. It just offers a steady hand, a warm room, and a few truths shaped by time. It’s the kind of album that stays with you, not because it demands to, but because it gives you something worth coming back to.
What Goes Around Comes Around doesn’t push for attention. It just offers a steady hand, a warm room, and a few truths shaped by time. It’s the kind of album that stays with you, not because it demands to, but because it gives you something worth coming back to.