BANDÃ
Carla Boregas (synth, electronics)
Marina Cyrino (alto flute, piccolo)
Marcela Lucatelli (piano, voice)
Juliana Perdigão (clarinets, voice)
Mariá Portugal (drums, voice)

BANDÃ is the ensemble of Brazilian musicians Juliana Perdigão, Mariá Portugal, Marcela Lucatelli, Carla Boregas und Marina Cyrino, who together manifest the flavors and freedoms of a new sonic world beyond the boundaries of musical genres. BANDÃ is based on the affirmation of the sum of outstanding and diverse artistic profiles with a focus on cross-genre improvisation from jazz, contemporary classical music, electronics, noise, punk, Brazilian popular song and folk music coexisting simultaneously. We do not aim at creating a “new genre” per se, but rather we are interested in transitions, fragilities, in playing with stereotypes and in sharing our aesthetic and ethics of listening. We care about delirium and connection, therefore we are able to accept our differences in order to create the music we cannot yet imagine.

The live recording at Morphine Raum will be inspired by the speeches of Brazilian politician Erika Hilton. Erika Hilton is a federal deputy, a black trans woman who is constantly fighting to change an extremely patriarchal structure in the Brazilian Congress and society. Her assertive performance and eloquent discourse are fundamental in the current Brazilian political scene. Her corporeality and intellectuality are the driving force behind new forms of activism in spaces of power. In addition to feeling absolutely represented by her work as a congresswoman, her affirmative, combative and charismatic performance is a source of inspiration for us as performers. In this sense, Hilton is not only representative of socio-political achievements in Brazil, but also of changes in the imaginary through an aesthetic-communicative power. In this concert, we will quote excerpts from her speeches in the context of a free improvisation concert. Her corporeality and intellectuality are the driving force behind new forms of activism in spaces of power. We are interested in honoring the performative power of these “embodied arguments”.

Kindly funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM)