http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From A Barca on Calabash Music2008-10-07T09:27:22ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comTrilhahttp://abarca.calabashmusic.com/#album_585802006-02-01T05:47:43ZMusic from TrilhaFrom December 2004 to February 2005, A Barca traveled more than 10,000 km, across nine Brazilian states, from Para to Sao Paulo, with the Turista Aprendiz Project, sponsored by Petrobras. The group visited around 30 communities ranging from quilombos (hideouts for runaway slaves) to indigenous hamlets to the suburbs of big capital cities, passing by small towns placed along rivers, on the seacoast and in the countryside. A Barca gave workshops and concerts and made video and audio recordings of over 40 popular groups and artists. The itinerary included the regions of Maranhao, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.

The group worked for an entire year on this material and in January 2006, A Barca released a box set, ‘Trilha, Toada a Trupe’, which includes 2 compilations dedicated to the local groups, plus a third album of A Barca's studio & live performances. The raw material collected by the group – 300 hours of sound and image – is now available for the first time. All music download sales directly benefit the communities who participated in this project.
]]>Toadahttp://abarca.calabashmusic.com/#album_585432006-02-01T05:47:43ZMusic from ToadaThe many communities A Barca visited - many of them living in a state of poverty and exclusion - still cultivate an ongoing oral tradition. This encounter between traditional communities and contemporary artists was cause for a great deal of improvisation and experimentation in an attempt to discover a third way of music making in which the boundaries between traditional and popular culture, sacred and profane, devotion and entertainment are broken.]]>Trupehttp://abarca.calabashmusic.com/#album_586062006-02-01T05:47:43ZMusic from TrupeThis third CD features A Barca studio recordings (before and after the trip) as well as live tracks recorded during the trip concerts which feature several artists. Prepare your ears, voice, feet and heart in order to follow this path with us. 'Raise the dust! Let's dance the samba!']]>Baiao de Princesashttp://abarca.calabashmusic.com/#album_585062006-02-01T05:47:43ZMusic from Baiao de PrincesasBaiao de Princesas was recorded with Casa Fanti-Ashanti, from Sao Luis and focused on a repertoire of songs played in the ‘terriro’ (a place where Afro-Brazilian religious ceremonies are performed) which adhered to a specific ritual; the ‘Baiao de Princesas’. Over the past six years, A
Barca has traveled and performed in 50 Brazilian cities in addition to recording local music in Para, Maranhao, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.]]>Turista Aprendizhttp://abarca.calabashmusic.com/#album_586292006-02-01T05:47:43ZMusic from Turista AprendizIn 1999, A Barca visited the region of Maranhao and Para for the first time and members of the group played in both the cities and the countryside learning a pantheon of songs like the carimbo, pajelanca, tambor de mina, mangaba and bumba-ox, all of which would be part of their first group concert and CD, ‘Turista Aprendiz’.]]>