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THE ART OF SONG, vol.2
Between Sacred and Profane
“A rain is not just rain at the moment it falls. It began as water that the heat of emotions evaporated, a cloud that drifted along, gathering moments, wisdom, and affections. When it falls, it slides, bends into a riverbed, a field of cultivation, an arm of the sea, a mountain. It comes from so many lands. It is the memory of affections evaporating. Various times of listening and cultivation that, evaporating knowledge and other waters, came together into one or several clouds of ideas. Once fallen, it makes the ground more permeable to new plantings, new harvests, new waters evaporating, rising once more to the sky of what matters most.”
Amélia Muge
The Art of Song vol.2 – Between Sacred and Profane stems from the musical influences that artistically shaped Rita Maria & Filipe Raposo and coexist in their own territory – that of classical music, jazz, and traditional song – which are, indeed, premises for this creation.
Rites and myths have played a role of searching and connecting with the profound, of returning to origins, in explaining mysteries; they soothe and comfort, giving meaning and value to our existence. In cultures that separate the divine world from the everyday world, the relationship between the Sacred and the Profane can be interpreted as religion and non-religion. However, in archaic societies, every human intervention in the rural environment—such as plowing the earth or cutting down a tree—possesses the rhythm of latent sacredness, with no distinction felt between secular-profane activities and sacred ones. It is as if they lived in a permanent immersion in the sacred. There exists a unifying pulse, where everything is both sacred and profane.
The Art of Song, vol.2 seeks, through songs gathered from different eras and contexts, to highlight the role of singing and its telluric power as a fundamental factor in socialization, in the transmission of knowledge, and in accompanying the ritual activities of work and religion, of the world of humans and gods. The repertoire is thus organized by themes that lead us through the mist of time: Goddesses and Men, Rites and Work, Hands and Fruits, Life and Love, From the Cradle to the Grave, in an Eternal Return revisited generation after generation.
Filipe Raposo
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