Tende means Listen in the forro language (one of São Tomé e Principe's main languages). Tende (Sounds of displacement) is a phonographic and sonic-poetry project where i listen to places and people in Africa (from where i descend), and intuitively make music from that. 

This also a non verbal, and non-academic way of reflecting on multidimensional time and space, intuition and imagination as tools of reshaping blackness and addressing colonialism and the so-called post-colonialism, bordering nations, the displacement and replacement of black bodies and the theft of African land for the purpose of extraction and speculation. 

Tende#1  contains sounds recorded in the community of Agua Izé/Awize  (Metal shop and FACA arts center), Porto Alegre/Potu Alegli Beach community (local fisherman and woman), Ribeira Peixe (rum producers at local sugar mill), São João dos Angolares/Sanzon N’Gola, Tradicional percussionist Bibuanu da Silva from São João dos Angolares/Sanzon N’Gola; São Tomé (market/fela, women trading and haggling); Trindade/Tindaji (kids playing soccer with a plastic bottle); and several natural sounds.

Field Recordings from São Tomé Island in the West African Coast mixed with sound design_2020. Recorded in 2019 during an artistic residency. Composed in 2020 for Hang-on - Hangar

Tende#1 Ponha Tudu Isu Koisa Nu Xão Uê

Tende means Listen in the forro language (one of São Tomé e Principe's main languages). Tende (Sounds of displacement) is a phonographic and sonic-poetry project where i listen to places and people in Africa (from where i descend), and intuitively make music from that.
This also a non verbal, and non-academic way of reflecting on multidimensional time and space, intuition and imagination as tools of reshaping blackness and addressing colonialism and the so-called post-colonialism, bordering nations, the displacement and replacement of black bodies and the theft of African land for the purpose of extraction and speculation.

Tendê#2 – Labadela, contains sounds recorded at the community of Ribeira Afonso (washerwoman and their children); Agua Izé/Awize  (Metal shop and FACA arts center), Bula Ué Group from São João dos Angolares/Sanzon N’Gola; and several natural sounds. Music composition and sound design by xullaji aka soundslikenuno

Tende#2 Labadela

when i went to London I had no time and conditions the record my rap lyrics, so i tried to express my thoughts and  feelings with beats. Dreams turned into nightmares. Away from my kids and the people i love. Brexit and racism. Nigel Farage...Trump...Teresa May. A son of immigrants  in Lisbon, who became an immigrant in London. Cold people in cold weather. Having money for nothing more than Chicken fries.  Fucked up relationships.  but yet hope from art and the people that helped me 

This was not mixed and mastered. Raw music from raw times.

01 Night Thougts

Some of the Music Created for the theatre play "Os Negros" (Les Negres), written by Jean Genet, directed by Rogério de Carvalho, produced by the Griot Theatre Company, Lisbon 2017/2018.

8 RAINHA

7 DANÇA DO SIMULACRO

6 FLORESTA DOS TRÓPICOS

5 PREPARATIVO LITANIA

4 Felicidade Subida

3 EMBALAR

2 Daomé

1 FUMO

Music Composition and Sound Design for Theatre and Visual Arts. 
Credits. A companhia, Francisco Vidal, Formiga Atómica, Griot Theatre, Monica de Miranda, Vhils, and others.

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