Passacaglia Amazonia (Concert Band)

Passacaglia Amazonia (Fugato Excerpt)

This Friday, Amazon in 5 minutes brings you a summary of the main news stories about the Amazon Rainforest that took place between January 26 and February 1. This week's highlights are:

- Oil exploration project at the mouth of the Amazon River has maximum environmental impact, according to Ibama;
- Katia Silene Tonkyre, the first female chief of the Gavião da Montanha people, wins an international award for preserving the Amazon rainforest;
- Forest fires in Colombia have already destroyed at least 17,000 hectares of forest. In a call with Lula, the Colombian president suggests the creation of a regional fire prevention station.

This program is produced by Amazônia Latitude. For more information, visit http://amazonialatitude.com

Amazon in 5 minutes: oil in the Amazon River and a prize for a chief from Pará

Paraiso

This week’s BIGFOOT REPLAY is with adventurer, polar explorer, environmentalist, Minnesotan, and wonderfully nice guy Paul Schurke!!

Paul is a legend in the adventure world- completing multiple expeditions to the North Pole (including an unsupported trip in the 80s), dogsledding across Siberia (to convince the US and Soviet Union to open the Bering Strait to help out Inuit families), following in the footsteps of Teddy Roosevelt’s River of Doubt expedition in the Amazon, crossing South Georgia Island by the same route as Ernest Shackleton, and so much more.

BIGFOOT REPLAYS: Paul Schurke -- Retracing Peary, Shackleton and Roosevelt

The Amazon River basin has long been a mystery to Brazil. Located far from the centers of business and power in the nation's southeast, the jungle provinces of the Brazilian north have long been ignored by the nation at large. But recently, Brazilians have discovered that the cities and waterways of the Amazon are home to some of the nation's hottest music. In this Hip Deep episode—a musical history of Pará state, where Afro-Caribbean influences have created a unique local flavor that connects the dots between Brazilian music and the rest of Latin America, we check out the guitar heroes of old-school Amazonian dance bands, investigate the origins of the early '90s lambada dance craze, and explore the bubblegum bass culture of tecno brega. Featured interviews with singer Gaby Amarantos, lambada revivalist Felipe Cordeiro and ethnomusicologist Darien Lamen, among others.

APWW #691
Lead Producer: Marlon Bishop
Assistant Production: Saxon Baird, Joe Dobkin

The Mighty Amazon

Lush Amazonian soundscapes (raw and cooked); bullroarers, catfish trumpets and laughing alligators; a documentary filmmaker who wants to get eaten by Indians; two friends, inspired by adventurous characters like Richard Evans Schultes and Werner Herzog, go to the northern amazon and experiment with sound machines; a news segment on alien face-peelers (or gold miners with jetpacks); an extra-terrestrial cumbia…

TRACKLIST
Whistle on Wire & Rhombe (Ashaninka Route – Arawak) and Along the River (Aguaruna Itinerary) from Amazonia - Music, songs and natural sounds – Recorded by Xavier Bellenger (GREM – G 9112, 1991)

Bará (Tukano) Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – The Bara Collection of Jean E. Jackson (n.d.)
 
Pirá-Paraná Yuruparí Music from the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia – Recorded by Stephen Hugh-Jones and Christine Hugh-Jones (1968-1970)
 
Excerpt from the Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey (Museum of Modern Art, 1979)
 
Schultes navegando el Apaporis & Expedición Botánica – Vaupes-Uapes (Dada Phone, 2024)

News segment on Alien Face-peelers (Or Gold Miners on Jetpacks) in Alto Nanay, Peru

Afrosound - Cumbia de E.T. El Extraterrestre (Fuentes, 1983)

Chaco (Paraguay) and the Pantanal (South Mato Grosso) – Recorded by Richard Chapelle (Unidisc – UD 30 1293, 1977)

BULLROARERS, CATFISH TRUMPETS, LAUGHING ALLIGATORS, AND ALIEN FACE-PEELERS

COREY SANTELMANN (b. 1991) is a New England-based composer of choral, wind band, and chamber music that "shimmers with sharp sonorities," thoughtfully connecting old and new with expansive polyphony, exquisite harmony, and engaging minimalism. His music has been performed/recorded by university, high school, and professional/community ensembles in at least 29 states and in major cities across North America, including N.Y. City, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, San Antonio, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Lincoln, Lexington, Topeka, Savannah, and the metro areas of Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Raleigh, Tulsa, Boise, Spokane, South Bend, Rapid City, Anchorage, and Washington, D.C. He was a winner of the Foris Choir's 2020 Call for Scores in Portland, Oregon; his music has sold copies across the United States. Performing/recording ensembles have included the Cantabile Chamber Singers (Toronto), La Caccina women's chamber choir (Chicago), Firebird Chamber Ensemble, Savannah Area Flute Choir, Canyon County Flute Choir, Flute Choir of Southern Maryland, and ensembles at the University of Redlands, University of Texas at San Antonio, Arizona Christian University, Ouachita Baptist University, Bethel College (Kansas), Black Hills State University, University of New Hampshire, Manchester Community Music School, and Flute Alliance Flute Boot Camp (Tigard, OR). Notable, award-winning high school performing/recording ensembles have included the Summit High School Wind Symphony (Arlington, TX), Seven Lakes High School Wind Symphony (Katy, TX), Lovejoy High School Wind Symphony (Lucas, TX), Park Hill High School Symphonic Winds (Kansas City, MO), Topeka High School Varsity Band (Topeka, KS), Pius X High School Symphonic Winds (Lincoln, NE), Penn High School Symphonic Winds (Mishawaka, IN), Coeur d'Alene High School Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Band (Coeur d'Alene, ID), Colony High School Symphonic Winds (Palmer, AK), Sammamish High School Wind Ensemble (Bellevue, WA), Provo High School Chamber Singers/Bella Voce (Provo, UT), Panther Creek High School Chamber Choir (Cary, NC), and Torrington High School Chamber Choir (Torrington, CT). Other performance locations have included the University of Utah, College of Idaho, Chicago's Merit School of Music, Boston Children's Museum, and St. Mary's Cathedral in N.Y. City. Santelmann's other interests include early music, polyharmony, orchestration, and barbershop harmony. His works are published by Pavane Publishing and Tonally New Music; he is professionally affiliated with ASCAP. Above all, Santelmann strives to explore music's future without abandoning its past, remembering that art's goals should never circumvent the creation of a meaningful, human experience for performer and audience alike.

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Podcast da Amazônia Latitude, uma revista digital independente, produzida em colaboração por estudantes de pós-graduação, professores e pesquisadores de várias instituições do Brasil e do mundo. 

Situada no campo das Humanidades Ambientais, somos uma plataforma crítica, que cultiva uma leitura interdisciplinar da Amazônia e da Pan-Amazônia em seus processos históricos, socioculturais e políticos, com o propósito de examinar e demonstrar o desenvolvimento de uma violência lenta sobre as culturas e territórios da região, assim como pensar outras possibilidades para a floresta e seus povos.

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