PACHAKAMANI & EENDUNGA | OKAANA KO NDUNGA

Tuesday April 23th, we host on our weekly FM slot on 88,4 Berlin / 90,7 Potsdam episode 09 of the Pachakamani series at 12:00 (CET). At 14:00, we talk live from the Villa Romana in Florence with Tuli Mekondjo about the Eendunga twin seeds and the Okaana ko Ndunga: Ondunga fertility doll.

Sesión 09 - Kamani Archipel

Homenaje al Canto Vital de Carlos López, trovador boliviano (03/2020) En esta sesión escucharemos el episodio 09 del podcast, se rinde un homenaje póstumo al trovador boliviano Carlos López. Juan Carlos Cordero, en una conversación, comparte detalles sobre la vida, principios, sueños y, sobre todo, la música de López. Se explora el concepto del “Canto Vital” y el papel de la trova en Bolivia, así como la influencia del contexto histórico y musical en la poesía y letras de López, que abordan temas de reivindicación y protesta. Carlos López, fundador del grupo Savia Nueva, dejó un legado musical significativo. Acompañó a la agrupación hasta 1983 y grabó tres discos de larga duración bajo el sello discográfico “Campo”. Más tarde, como solista, lanzó varios álbumes que llevaban el nombre de “Canto vital”. A través de fragmentos de sus canciones y poemas, se analiza la producción musical y el alcance del “canto de protesta” en Bolivia. La conversación también revela las dificultades y desafíos que López enfrentó en la producción de sus discos, así como su destreza tanto en el canto como en la interpretación de la guitarra. Se enfatiza la importancia de transmitir un mensaje y contenido artísticamente elaborado en su música. Además, se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de mantener un canto comprometido con la lucha social en el presente. El episodio incluye una selección de canciones de Carlos López, como “Mama angustia” y “El Grito de la Tierra”, que ayudan a contextualizar la discusión. También se hace referencia al paisaje sonoro de la Plaza de San Pedro en la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia. Se proporcionan enlaces a los perfiles de Carlos López y Juan Carlos Cordero en redes sociales y plataformas musicales. https://pachakamani.com/podcast/

Eendunga & Okaana ko Ndunga: Ondunga fertility doll

Tuli Mekondjo gives Monai de Paula Antunes the pleasure to talk about the Ondunga twin seeds and the fertility dolls made with them in Namibian heritage, the Okaana ko Ndunga. Sitting in the garden, they plan to talk about Tuli's engagement with these seeds and dolls, and about twins and their many ambivalent mysticism. Steeming from the Makalani palm tree, the destiled fruits produce a liquor called Ombike that shall be tasted, also honoring the brazilian celebration of Sao Jorge da Capadócia / the orixá Ogum that happens on April 23th.

REVEIL 11

REVEIL will embark on its 11 loop around the sun on Saturday 4th of May at 5am UTC+1 and will complete its journey on Sunday the 5th of May at 6am. Archipel Stations is happy to stream the full broadcast again this year, also live streaming from the sunrise of a garden in Florence, Italy.

Reveil is a collaborative sound and radio project that circles the Earth on live audio streams at daybreak. The last broadcast featured 145 streams from a wide range of environments and situations.

Many streams come from soundcamps: small or very small gatherings in places of ecological and acoustic interest. Last year there were 26 soundcamps in a variety of locations – rural, urban and in between. Reveil will be mixed from a hub at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe, South London, and stations in Tartu, Sunshine Coast, Valparaíso, Chania and additional locations to be announced.

More info and to listen: https://soundtent.org/reveil/

ABOUT
Soundcamp 11 is a project of the Soundcamp Cooperative with Stave Hill Ecological Park (TCV) and the Acoustic Commons network: Full Of Noises (Cumbria UK) · Locus Sonus (Aix FR) · Radio CONA (Ljubljana SI) · HMU (Crete GR) · Cyberforest (Tokyo JP).

Streams are part of the live soundmap project operated by Locus Sonus at ESAAIX, Aix-en-Provence. They also come from independent projects and the environmental sound community at radio.earth.

The Reveil main mix will be hosted by Wave Farm in Acra, Upper Hudson Valley, New York, our US broadcast partner since the first edition. Resonance Radio is our long-term UK broadcast partner. The show is carried each year in whole or in part by a netwrok of participating FM and net radio stations to be announced.

Archipel e.V is a small arts and culture association registered within the german requirments, according to which we assigned as our main purpose advocating for tolerance in all areas of culture and the concept of international understanding, especially supporting the emancipation of entities that have been pushed to the margins.

In the last months we have watched consecutive war crimes being commited by Israel backlashing Hamas horrendous attentat on October 7th 2023. We have watched powerful governments, in particular the German, support inconditionally and financially an offensive in Palestine that is unjustifiable. We watched hate speech profaned by the mouths of people in charge. We watched hundreds of international human rights organisations desperately denoucing an on-going massacre. We have watched protests, especially in Berlin, that in no way endorsed Hamas - instead mourne and demanded respect to human rights - be violently supressed. We have watched police reinforcement of racial profiling and provocations to the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communitites living in Berlin. We have watched a quick escalation of discrimitation and ignorant statements about Arabs and Muslims, specially inside schools, from educational staff and school communities. We have watched german art and educational institutions, when at all making public statements, show solidarity to the losses of Israel and silence about what is happening in Palestine. We confirm a complex set of silencing mechanisms at play against those that are critical of mainstream narratives.

Hereby we publicly declare our devastation about this situation and that we do not agree with the ways the German government and the German cultural and academic circuit has acted so far. We are disapointed and specially revolted by the discrepancy between all the decolonial discourse that has permeated the arts - a staging in which all members of our organisation have acted upon - and the general retraction to a brutal scenario that blows up the main injustices and power inequalities decolonization fights against. We understand there are many mechanisms for silencing at play, still, we cannot accept the submission to this oppression of speech and criticism. We call specially the german voices to work out through their reasons not to speak up and use their locus of speech that is of particular relevance to the injustices exploding in the last months and to the extreme-right agenda that is taking over more and more space.

We would like also to call attention to the many ways in which this current crisis reinforce mechanisms of polarization and separation between people all over the world. Archipel will put its efforts in maintaing its open channel for all voices and contuining to produce spaces of encounter in times of further increase in broken relationships. Inasmusch as we feel we must speak out against the current upmost injustices, we also need to stay aware of the importance of connectivity and cross-communication in the sight of a large aparatus that is trying to disrupt valuable interpersonal relationships. We want to contribute to free and diverse media environment and foster cultures of listening that produce empathy and respect.

CEASE FIRE NOW. REPAIR.

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