Sounds from Soil is a project about music and earth. In this episode, we meet the composer and percussionist Adriano Adewale and reflect on the Afro-Brazilian musical tradition as identity and how it relates to the element of earth and groundedness.
We also visit the dance workshop held by dancer and choreographer Carolina Paulino in Aalto University in spring 2022, and reflect on why and how earth is important for the practice of a dancer.
playlist
0:49 – Chapter 1: Adriano Adewale and the search for an Afro-Brazilian identity
9:25 – Chapter 2: Musical studies: tracing the musical heritage of Brazil
13:57 – Chapter 3: Outside perspective: my name now
21:54 – Chapter 4: From harmonica to berimbau: sonic identity in the making
30:35 – Chapter 5: We all carry a drum within us
37:18 – Chapter 6: Making sound with the elements: fire, air, earth and water
44:46 – Chapter 7: in Order to go up you need to go down: the earth and dance
Guests: Adriano Adewale, Carolina Paulino
Host: Aino Kostiainen
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The music played during the podcast is from the album Sonic Poems from an Unknown Land, by Adriano Adewale and Nathan Riki Thomson, published in 2021.
I wish to thank Soila Sillanpää and Guto Lucena for advice regarding Brazilian music and Anne Nevalainen-Silva for introducing me to the dance and movements of the orixás.
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