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Producer and Grammy Award winner Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami) travelled upriver in Suriname – the smallest country in South America – to record the richly melancholy music of its remote Amazon region.
The full album from the brother duo - Saramaccan Sound - will be released in January as part of Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series.
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The Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) duo sing in the Saramaccan language. The language is notable because its vocabulary is based on two European source languages, English (30%) and Portuguese (20%), and various West and Central African languages (50%), but it diverges considerably from all of them. The African component accounts for over half of the vocabulary, the highest percentage in the Americas.
The main writer, singer and mentor is Jabini. A military man, he stands less than 5’ 6’’ but with an opposing build. His gym, a lifetime of hard work.
With his mournful melodies and handle-bar mustache, it was as if country singer Merle Haggard had been raised in the Amazon instead of dusty Bakersfield. You can almost hear the humidity seeping into the microphones.
And as so often was the case, the best songs emerged only after we were done recording. The equipment had to be setup three separate times and brought to the men on the front-porch, as they sang almost non-stop throughout the night, growing freer as the bottles of rum were drained. Finally, they concluded with a song written on the spot about their brotherhood— “One Mother, Two Hearts.”
--- Ian Brennan
lyrics
We come from the same mother,
But different fathers.
We have two hearts,
But one mother.
We are not half-brothers,
We are whole.
We are brothers.
Two, but one.
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Aziza is of Western Saharan origin and now lives in Spain after (after some time in Algeria and Cuba). So, her Sahrawi roots may dominate her music but other influences are well integrated and make for a very inticing mix. Beautiful melancholic music . Carsten Pieper