Xikrin (PA)
Xikrin musicality is predominantly vocal and bodily. The feet and hands of people who dance, sometimes beating hard, sometimes lighter, set the rhythm and rhythm of singing and dancing, sometimes accompanied by screams and onomatopoeia. Xikrin musicality is expressed through the rituals that are part of the initiation cycle, the nomination cycle or even the marriage on the treadmill, the return of a collective hunt, war expeditions or ritual crying. There are few musical instruments used by the Xikrin, the most important being the maracá.
Pankararu Cultural Nation (PE)
The Pankararu Cultural Nation group is made up of young people from the community of this people of Pernambuco who, through orality and memories, reconnected with the Buzzo dance ritual, a wind instrument made of hollow wood, a bass and a treble, used during a ritual with the players. This ancestral and traditional practice of the Pankararu people is carried out collectively, in rites of celebration, festivities involving music and dance.
They have participated in festivities inside and outside the community, and held artistic and cultural performances at Sesc Petrolina, Sesc Santo Amaro, at a concert by Gean Ramos Pankararu and in several states of the country, including Bahia, São Paulo and Brasilia.
Djotana AKA Siba Carvalho (Puri) “+ synesthezk”
The multi-artist and art educator Djotana aka Siba Carvalho, from the Puri Teyxokawa people, is a member of the movement and the line philosophical ancestor of women “Wayrakunas” and the art collective educators Puri “Txemim Puri”. Siba seeks to unite ancestral music with indigenous futurism, bringing reflection on the indigenous presence in villages and cities, highlighting the preservation of traditional knowledge and Mother Earth. The project is inspired by his grandmother, who used to create songs related to the enchanted force in Puri lands, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. Her work crosses the paths of spirituality and indigenous struggle and mixes elements of reggae, hip-hop and Pernambuco rhythms combined with the psychedelic synths of DJ and producer Synesthezk with whom she has partnered.
Nelson D.
An
indigenous, Brazilian, European electronic music artist and citizen of the universe, Nelson D resides in São Paulo, uniting electronic sources and indigenous culture, mixing organic and traditional sounds with technological processes. It traces an intimate sound path where the artist acts not only as a music producer but also as a performer, in a futuristic rite through ancestral echoes in search of original memories, a profanatory invitation that becomes’ sacred ‘and a body that does not define itself, nor limit itself but overflows ruptures in the reexistence outside from chronological time, it abandons labels, labels, revealing liquidity of identities in post-modernity and cultural contrasts.
Nelson’s references are artists such as Tricky, Radiohead, Young Fathers, Prodigy, Son Lux, and Tanya Tanaq. Nelson D makes Beats themselves a ritual trance, between different rhythms, with an obscure and melancholic mood half Trip Hop, without losing the rock and indigenous look that accompanies all his work. The themes also refer to the experience of the São Paulo urban forest with its contradictions.
Since 2010 she has dedicated herself to the musical production of new and new artists in the Brazilian music scene, including Danna Lisboa, Gloria Groove, Linn da Quebrada, Tássia Reis, Davi (former Banda Uò), Mel (former Banda Uò) and Melvin Santana.