Serena Assumpção - Ascensão (2016)
BAND/ARTIST: Serena Assumpção
- Title: Ascensão
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: Tratore
- Genre: World, Brazilian Music
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 00:52:16
- Total Size: 124; 330 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Ascensão, this contemporary classic of both Brazilian music and culture, captures the clarity and grace of Serena Assumpção in her invocation and embrace of a fundamental but little considered understanding: that we all are, essentially, spiritual beings. Hence, the breath – air, mystery, inspiration – which gives rise to life, consequently, gives rise to chanting; that's why we sing, to return to what we are and to the source of what sound is: propagated vibration, energy. In the Yorùbá (Nagô) cosmogony, each spirit (soul, head) is described as an ori. Oris inhabit an invisible realm called Òrun, also Heaven, ruled by the primal force of the Òrìṣà (the Orishas, Orixás in portuguese), the vital and sacred energy present in all natural elements: the aṣẹ (axé). As such, the earthly life, the bodily and individual human experience of each ori constitutes but a mere and brief interval, a journey through this visible realm that we call Earth, world, the Ayé. Thus, all the paths each embodied being on earth choses and travels by – movement and transformation – are attempts to return, to elevate oneself to the invisible realm, and to heal the visible realm. This is to ascend, this is Ascensão.
For this ascent, Serena Assumpção harmoniously and expressively combines voices and cycles, chants, and sounds – the energy which does not turn into matter touches infinity – with reverence to her own ancestry through the faith of Candomblé, an African diasporic Brazilian religion, also through the poetry and musicality of the rites and songs of African-Brazilian culture and the wisdom chronicled and bequeathed through the spoken word, through ancestral orality. Assumpção collects and assembles here, above all, the enchantment that emanates from the essential gesture of singing, playing, dancing for the orishas and, by inviting us to this xirê – evocation whirl – she offers us, in a fellowship with so many notable Brazilian artists with whom she shared a generation, a hieratic document derived from her research and moulded entirely in dedication to Èṣù (Exu), Ògún (Ogum), Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì (Oxóssi), Òṣùmàrè (Oxumaré), Ṣàngó (Xangô), Yàńsàn-án (Iansã), Ọṣun (Oxum), Yemọja (Iemanjá), Ìrókò (Irôko), Nàná (Nanã), Obalúayé (Obaluaiê) and Obatalá (Oxalá). And so, all through Ascensão, we find ourselves continuously amidst celebration and gift, intoning and sailing atavic frequencies.
Not only our ears, but the whole extension of our bodies is guided and celebrated by the flow and the flood of the four elements of the universe (oṣa) – water, earth, fire, and air – encircled by animals and plants, the colours, shapes and textures of natural and celestial beings. Because the mantra that resounds here tells us: listening is protection. That we can close our eyes and be sheltered in this visible and invisible realm of Serena Assumpção: here so many waters roll – the primaeval waves of the Kalunga (sea) of the Bakongo people (Bantu) – both salty and sweet, in solid and liquid states, and, from gas state, we are kissed by the air of gales and breezes. There is so much earth, beaten soil, sand from the seas, dirt from the roads, the dust of what remains. Fire comes with spears and metals, glares and flames, transformation. Therefore, this timeless album is also a liturgy for Brazilian memory in the form of musical notes (soul) and words (body), which by the celebration of the grain of love, the praise of the magnitude of encounters and the mustering of hope, rescues, expresses and welcomes life in its utter vibrating spheres. Axé.
Tracklist:
1 01. Serena Assumpção - Exu (03:05)
1 02. Serena Assumpção - Ogum (03:52)
1 03. Serena Assumpção - Pavão (03:57)
1 04. Serena Assumpção - Oxumaré (03:53)
1 05. Serena Assumpção - Xangô (04:57)
1 06. Serena Assumpção - Iansã (04:46)
1 07. Serena Assumpção - Oxum (04:28)
1 08. Serena Assumpção - Iemanjá (03:07)
1 09. Serena Assumpção - Iroko (05:25)
1 10. Serena Assumpção - Nanã (03:08)
1 11. Serena Assumpção - Obaluaiê (05:24)
1 12. Serena Assumpção - Oxalá (03:01)
1 13. Serena Assumpção - Do Tata Nzambi (03:06)
For this ascent, Serena Assumpção harmoniously and expressively combines voices and cycles, chants, and sounds – the energy which does not turn into matter touches infinity – with reverence to her own ancestry through the faith of Candomblé, an African diasporic Brazilian religion, also through the poetry and musicality of the rites and songs of African-Brazilian culture and the wisdom chronicled and bequeathed through the spoken word, through ancestral orality. Assumpção collects and assembles here, above all, the enchantment that emanates from the essential gesture of singing, playing, dancing for the orishas and, by inviting us to this xirê – evocation whirl – she offers us, in a fellowship with so many notable Brazilian artists with whom she shared a generation, a hieratic document derived from her research and moulded entirely in dedication to Èṣù (Exu), Ògún (Ogum), Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì (Oxóssi), Òṣùmàrè (Oxumaré), Ṣàngó (Xangô), Yàńsàn-án (Iansã), Ọṣun (Oxum), Yemọja (Iemanjá), Ìrókò (Irôko), Nàná (Nanã), Obalúayé (Obaluaiê) and Obatalá (Oxalá). And so, all through Ascensão, we find ourselves continuously amidst celebration and gift, intoning and sailing atavic frequencies.
Not only our ears, but the whole extension of our bodies is guided and celebrated by the flow and the flood of the four elements of the universe (oṣa) – water, earth, fire, and air – encircled by animals and plants, the colours, shapes and textures of natural and celestial beings. Because the mantra that resounds here tells us: listening is protection. That we can close our eyes and be sheltered in this visible and invisible realm of Serena Assumpção: here so many waters roll – the primaeval waves of the Kalunga (sea) of the Bakongo people (Bantu) – both salty and sweet, in solid and liquid states, and, from gas state, we are kissed by the air of gales and breezes. There is so much earth, beaten soil, sand from the seas, dirt from the roads, the dust of what remains. Fire comes with spears and metals, glares and flames, transformation. Therefore, this timeless album is also a liturgy for Brazilian memory in the form of musical notes (soul) and words (body), which by the celebration of the grain of love, the praise of the magnitude of encounters and the mustering of hope, rescues, expresses and welcomes life in its utter vibrating spheres. Axé.
Tracklist:
1 01. Serena Assumpção - Exu (03:05)
1 02. Serena Assumpção - Ogum (03:52)
1 03. Serena Assumpção - Pavão (03:57)
1 04. Serena Assumpção - Oxumaré (03:53)
1 05. Serena Assumpção - Xangô (04:57)
1 06. Serena Assumpção - Iansã (04:46)
1 07. Serena Assumpção - Oxum (04:28)
1 08. Serena Assumpção - Iemanjá (03:07)
1 09. Serena Assumpção - Iroko (05:25)
1 10. Serena Assumpção - Nanã (03:08)
1 11. Serena Assumpção - Obaluaiê (05:24)
1 12. Serena Assumpção - Oxalá (03:01)
1 13. Serena Assumpção - Do Tata Nzambi (03:06)
Year 2016 | World | Latin | FLAC / APE
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