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Live Concert & Podcast

with DANIELLE ALMEIDA

presented by Tropical Diaspora® Records [tdrgo.co/live]

Danielle Almeida is singer • educator • artivist in the anti-racism & LGBTQIA+ movements and ADKDW Cologne • Artist-in-Residenceic.

Danielle Almeida

/// English

Following her contribution to our Learning to Listen podcast, singer and ADKDW artist-in-residence Danielle Almeida presents her didactic concert Diaspórica live at Oblomov in Berlin Kreuzköln. In a didactic recital, the audience will be introduced to a series of songs and rhythms by 20th-century Black women singers from the Latin American musical repertoire. Danielle will be accompanied by musicians to be anounced here. In addition to the musical performance, Danielle will present parts of her research dedicated to making visible and remembering Black women singers from Peru, Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Brazil. The special format is based on Danielle Almeida’s work and activism against racism and colonialism. Didactic concerts focus on the interaction of the artists with the audience, complementing the sensory experience of music with the transfer of knowledge about the works presented. The goal of this method is to inspire the audience to discover new musical references and non-hegemonic narratives in music history. The Tropical Diaspora Records podcast is intended to be a safe space for people to share their stories. In the second part of the event we will have a talk and speak about her life and work.

/// BR Português

Seguindo sua contribuição para o podcast Learning to Listen, a cantora e artista residente da ADKDW Danielle Almeida apresenta seu show didático Diaspórica ao vivo no Oblomov em Berlin Kreuzköln. Em um recital didático, o público será apresentado a uma série de canções e ritmos de cantoras negras do repertório musical latino-americano do século XX. Danielle estará acompanhada de músicos a serem anunciados aqui. Além da apresentação musical, Danielle apresentará partes de sua pesquisa dedicada a tornar visíveis e relembrar cantoras negras do Peru, Cuba, Uruguai, México e Brasil. O formato especial tem como base o trabalho e o ativismo de Danielle Almeida contra o racismo e o colonialismo. Os concertos didáticos privilegiam a interação dos artistas com o público, complementando a experiência sensorial da música com a transferência de conhecimento sobre as obras apresentadas. O objetivo desse método é inspirar o público a descobrir novas referências musicais e narrativas não hegemônicas na história da música. O podcast Tropical Diaspora Records pretende ser um espaço seguro para as pessoas compartilharem suas histórias. Na segunda parte do evento uma entrevista com a artivista.


Songs in Danielle´s repertoire:
Song to Elegua
BRAVUM Song to Elegbara, song in honor to the orisha Exú and in homae to the Iyalorixá Flaviá Regina de Jagum
TABU, song in homage to the Cuban singer Mercedita Valdés
EXCUSE ME, song in homage to the Uruguayan singer Lágrimas Ríos
BLACK MARIA, song in homage to the Uruguayan singer Lágrimas Ríos
ELEVEN RIBBONS, song in homage to the Peruvian singer Susana Baca
VAIN ILLUSIONS, song in homage to the Peruvian singer Victoria Santa Cruz
BEAUTIFUL FLOWER (Ai, Yoyô), song in homage to the Brazilian singer Elizeth Cardoso
BLACK LITTLE ANGELS, song in homage to the Mexican singer Toña la Negra
THEY SHOUTED AT ME NEGRA (BLACK WOMAN), song in homage to the singer and Peruvian composer Victoria Santa Cruz


ADKDW Podcast | LEARNING TO LISTEN #1 | Portuguese

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.

Link to the Episodes

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.