João Bosco exposes the asphyxiation of the burned Nation in the stupendous single ‘O canto da terra pela um fio’ | Mauro Ferreira’s blog

♪ With the words, João Bosco: “When I was satisfied with reaching the end of this song (phonemes, sounds, still devoid of translation and meaning) I said to myself: it is a song that comes from the ground, from the earth, from sweat , the clay on the ground, the fauna, the flora, the Deep Well… where people live, work, prepare the land for sowing, sing in praise of what will come. It’s a song that I would say is Afro-indigenous, that is, it has an Afro rhythmic/harmonic feel and a melody that refers to the song of the forest, the field, the animals, the ground of the earth and those who inhabit it… So we are in a flourishing landscape, as everything indicates. Talking informally as I always do with my partners, in this case, with Francisco Bosco, we spent hours talking about all this. Perhaps Brazil is one of the rare countries in the world where the nation can be discussed through its popular music. It was exactly at this crossroads that my partner, thinking out loud, said that at this moment, in the very recent past, we should interpret this situation in a more contemporary way: Burns, instead of flourishing. Dystopia instead of utopia and so on… Could this interference in our relaxed reflections be influenced by “Omama”, who is credited with originating the rules of Yanomami society and culture? Would a Xapiri (helping spirits of the shamans) sit on my partner? Brazil was entirely affected in a cruel way by this recent past and at this moment we are faced with the investigation of these events, but our forest, our fauna and our indigenous people so exalted by writers, composers, poets and by history itself burn in flames. lava that kills everything we dream of. It is not the Deep Well, but the bottom of the well. The corner of the earth hanging by a thread is a song that kicks off an album that will be released in mid-2024. We are performing this song: cellist and arranger Jaques Morelenbaum and I, with guitar and voices. Recording made at Estúdio Visom, on the day and grace of Cosme and Damião, September 27, 2023.” John Bosco