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NEW 7” RELEASE

Cities Of Diaspora Vol.1 (São Paulo)

Featuring Höröyá, Chico César, Clarianas & Banda Jardes

Cover / Capa

First release in the Cities of the Diaspora 7 inch vinyl series. São Paulo is in the spotlight with a single featuring two great bands.

Inner Cover / Capa Interna

The 7” DJ Edition Series (45 rpm, big hole)

Press Release / Nota De Imprensa

On side A, the Afro-Brazilian group Höröyá with “Todo Lugar é Sertão” from their third album Pan Bras’Afree’Ke Vol. 2. In this single Höröyá welcomes Chico César and the group Clarianas who values caboclo songs of Afro-Northeastern-Indigenous origin. Recorded between São Paulo and Bamako, the single follows the concept of Höröyá’s last two albums, Pan Bras’Afree’ke Vol. 1 and 2, in which the group brings together artists from Brazil and West Africa such as Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso. The levadas of African instruments are present, such as the kamele ngoni of Adama Koeta and the djeli ngoni of Barou Kouyate, musicians from Mali, and also Brazilian instruments such as the zabumba and the berimbau.

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No lado A, o grupo afro-brasileiro Höröyá com “Todo Lugar é Sertão” do terceiro disco Pan Bras'Afree'Ke Vol. 2. Neste single Höröyá recebe Chico César e o grupo Clarianas que valoriza as canções caboclas de origem afro-nordestina-indígena. Gravado entre São Paulo e Bamako, o single segue o conceito dos dois últimos discos de Höröyá, Pan Bras'Afree'ke Vol. 1 e 2, em que o grupo reúne artistas do Brasil e da África Ocidental, como Guiné, Mali, Senegal e Burkina Faso. Estão presentes nas levadas de instrumentos africanos, como o kamele ngoni de Adama Koeta e o djeli ngoni de Barou Kouyate, músicos do Mali, e também instrumentos brasileiros como a zabumba e o berimbau.

On the B-side, the single features Banda Jardes and pays tribute to the musical career of Reginaldo Laurindo Da Silva, aka Regis Moreno, composer and performer of one of Brazil’s most iconic samba rock songs, “Grilos Da Vida (Nego Vem Sambá)”. Regis Moreno sadly passed away last September. The song was previously released in our Bugiganga Tropical series, Vol. 1 (sold out) and it has been remastered for this album.

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Do lado B, o single traz a Banda Jardes e homenageia a carreira musical de Reginaldo Laurindo Da Silva, o Regis Moreno, compositor e intérprete de um dos mais icônicos samba rock do Brasil, “Grilos Da Vida (Nego Vem Sambá) ”. Regis Moreno faleceu tristemente em setembro passado. A música foi lançada anteriormente em nossa série Bugiganga Tropical, Vol. 1 (esgotado) e foi remasterizado para este álbum. Tendo surgido nas periferias negras e pobres da cidade no bairro de Guaianazes, zona leste da cidade, Reginaldo pode lotar com sua Banda Jardes grandes casas de shows na década de 1980. Nós da Tropical Diaspora Records tivemos o imenso privilégio de conhecer Reginaldo e sua música de primeira mão. A música que representa como poucas o verdadeiro espírito do samba-rock com sua guitarra diferenciada.

Academy of World Arts & Tropical Diaspora Records presents

Podcast Series | ADKDW [•rec]

with DANIELLE ALMEIDA, CHIMURENGA (NTONE EDJABE), OLIVIER MARBOEUF, TROPICAL DIASPORA (DJ GARRINCHA, DJ DR. SÓCRATES)
curated und moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization. The format has been launched in October 2021 with four essays dealing with Afrodiasporic soundscapes, song forms, and music production, as well as their histories and communities. The episodes include recorded live performances (Danielle Almeida), vinyl productions (Tropical Diaspora / DJ GArRinchA and DJ Dr. Sócrates), and collages that bring together sound and performative approaches (Chimurenga / Ntone Edjabe and Olivier Marboeuf). What unites the various guests is that they understand sound and music as a kind of epistemic tool, as an instrument for the production of knowledge and community. The aim is to combine the experience of listening with the guests’ pedagogical strategies, commentary, and thoughts on Afrodiasporic and Latin American music and soundscapes.

Learning to Listen #4

DJ and producer GArRinchA (São Paulo, but Berlin-based since the 1990s) and cultural researcher DJ Dr. Sócrates founded the event platform and record label Tropical Diaspora in 2008. Tropical Diaspora Records produces vinyl records and views production as a means of empowerment, as a way of supporting artists and raising awareness of past and present stories of the African and neocultural diaspora – imposed by enslavement, economic causes, and the flight from war and poverty. DJ GArRinchA and DJ Dr. Sócrates will present some of the label’s productions and talk about the founding of the label, which itself is in a state of diaspora.

About Us!

Active since 1999 and established as recording company in 2015 in Berlin by the DJ and producer DJ Garrincha (São Paulo, Brazil) the label goes back to the 1990’s Berlin, at a time of underground parties and a very exciting cultural milieu where DJ Garrincha was active. In 2008 he started the event called Tropical Diaspora, soon joined by the cultural scholar and DJ DR. Sócrates (Vigo, Spain).

Our language is music. We feel obliged to empower the people we work with by means of giving them the chance to control their own narrative.

Read our Manifesto: our position facing cultural appropriation.