Antropoceno - No Ritmo da Terra - from Brazil, an amazing fusion of musical styles and traditions
“No Ritmo da Terra” is the second chapter from a trilogy of albums inspired in the work of Ailton Krenak. Articulating the “Ancestral Future” as an aesthetic project, the album incorporates Ailton’s philosophy through its sound design, manipulating Brazilian Folk Music elements and field recordings from the Amazon rainforest with futuristic electronic techniques from genres like Post-Rock, Glitch and Avant-Garde Metal. With lyrics in Portuguese, Tupi and Yoruba, the album recontextualizes Candomblé and Capoeira chants through an idiossyncratic sound palette developed to create a dialogue between ancestrality and futurism. As an imediate need in the face of climate change and other end of the world omens, the Ancestral Future challenges antropocentric views of the world that conceive humanity as an organism separate from the body of Earth. Through the recovery of resistance technologies developed by the cultures that remained attached to the planet as a necessity of survival from the erasure of subjectivities in the colonial process, “No Ritmo da Terra” promotes an ontological realignation with nature. Read the essay/ manifesto “Ancestral Future as an aesthetic project” here: antropocenolua.substack.com/p/the-ancestral-future-as-an-aesthetic Download the album for lyric sheet with translations to English and additional notes. Cover art by Poty Galaco. It’s a reinterpretation of a painting from Colombian artist Noé Leon “Missionary Being Eaten by Jaguar” (1907) www.instagram.com/g4laco
