Amazon singer Karen Aguiar’s documentary will be shown on tour in Italy

A concert was recorded in the famous postcard of the city of Manaus – the Amazonas Theater – and its main argument is the defense of the Amazon and the environment, seen in many parts of the world, including Italy. The music documentary “Jungle Jazz: an Amazonian Symphony” by Amazonian singer-songwriter and researcher Karine Aguiar, premiered in February of this year on her YouTube channel. Since then, the Italian public has begun to arouse interest in the exhibition in the format “Meet and Greet”, in the presence of the Italian artist and conductor Antonio Giacometti – responsible for the arrangements made for the project’s orchestras.

Given the fallout, the documentary will be shown in Europe – starting with Italy. The first will be on Saturday (11), at 6 pm, in Parco Gallo, in Brescia. The next event will be on the 1st of July in Modena. “Since I am now going to Manaus in July for a concert at the Amazonas Jazz Festival and also to defend my PhD, I have to stay in Brazil for three months and we will resume the ‘tour’ of this film in November, starting in the Veneto region of Italy. We also have invitations already. for viewing in France,” reveals Karen.

The exhibitions in the presence of Karine and Giacometti will have a moment of discussion with the audience, in the form of a round table, where people will be able to satisfy all their curiosities. “Italians and Europeans in general have this appreciation for the artistic production process, and in this case, the curiosity is even greater because it is a concert recorded in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, with an orchestra and choir of young Amazonian musicians and as well as masters of oral tradition, who traveled by boat from Maois to Manaus To sing with me on the stage of Teatro Amazonas and tell their stories to the present audience,” comments Aguiar.

Documentary According to the artist, the project was initially believed to be her first DVD. “But it ended up taking the form of a music documentary, because it doesn’t follow the traditional narrative of a recorded show/concert,” she explains. The idea for the DVD came from the traditional format with the Amazonian filmmaker Henrique Saunier Michiles – general manager of the project.

“We realized that there is a weight of very important information outside of music that cannot be neglected, such as Masari as a researcher and many years of collaboration with the masters of the Jamba de Maoys oral tradition. This film is also part of my PhD research in ecomusicology at UNICAMP ( which I am about to defend) and puts a reflection on the contrasts between forest and city, rural and urban, local and global in the Amazon,” asserts Aguiar.

Karen realizes that it was her participation in Earth Day events in Italy that got people interested in the documentary. “About the production process, among other things, for example, how Maestro Giacometti and I met when he was Italian and I was an artist from the Amazon region, about my relationship with the riverside, indigenous and Quilombola people,” she says.

Over 100 Amazonian professionals took part in this project, which was made possible thanks to the Manaus Cultural Connections Award from Manauscult and the unrestricted support of the Secretary of State for Culture and Creative Economy. “In addition to these two supports that were the mainstay of this project, I also had the generous cooperation of Rede Calderaro de Comunicação and IDESAM, a non-governmental organization that provides social and environmental support to protect the forest and its indigenous people, who have done very serious work here in our country, especially In Maués, highlights the singer.

The film also showcases the natural beauty of the state. “This leaves people with a great desire to get to know our Amazon. It is also an ode to all that is most beautiful, especially a poem to our people who have so much to teach the world. It is material that, of course, shows Manaus and the Amazon to the world from our perspective as local artists and from our perspective as well, as Indicates.

Karen says the increasingly precarious situation in which the Amazon and its indigenous people find themselves has been a major concern in Europe. “Through the Amazon Symphony Project, people have felt a greater awakening to this subject. Art has such a “soft power” that no other discursive instrument has and is capable of creating great revolutions.”

Karen Aguiar currently lives in Italy. Currently, the artist is dedicating her efforts to complete her PhD in Electronic Musicology at UNICAMP, where she has developed research dealing with the relationship between environment, music and culture in the Gambá de Maués groups.

In June, the singer participated in the Conference of the International Association for the Education of Music, where she presented a paper on her research with Maués Opossum, and soon, the class she wrote in partnership with the University of Plymouth, in the United Kingdom, will soon be. Published.Also on research in Maués.

In July, she returns to Manaus to perform at the Amazonas Green Jazz Festival on 7/23, and to meet other dates on her schedule.