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Podcast: Cities and Memory
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Beneath the swell, she echoes
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:04:57
Publish Date: 2025-12-18 14:07:29
Description:
"Beneath the swell, she echoes emerged from Marcelo Carneiro’s evocative field recording of the Iemanjá Day celebration—its textures, rhythms, and atmosphere opened a doorway to memory. I was drawn to create it through a long-standing connection to Brazilian music and culture. Many years ago, while singing with a Brazilian percussion group in Scotland and collaborating with Brazilian musicians and dancers, I learned a chant to Iemanjá—the mother of the sea. I have reimagined this chant among the waves, voices, and living pulse of the celebration.

"The track carries that lineage: the swell of water, the pulse of distant drums, and the enchanted movements of a water spirit echoing between drifting textures and electronic sound."

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