Amazônia Groove | Trailer - video Dailymotion

A documentary showcasing musicians living in northern Brazil, & in and around the region known as the Amazon basin, in South America.

Transcript

00:00 Where is it that you live?

00:04 You live in the waters of the sea

00:08 Where is it that you live?

00:11 You live in the rivers, you live in the sea

00:15 Sometimes I wonder how much faith, how much ancestry, strength, culture transport this river

00:24 How many songs fit in this river

00:27 [Music]

00:31 This Amazon heat is very much in our rhythm, this has to do with our musicality

00:37 Look at this permanent movement of this water here

00:40 People of Pará, if there is no rhythm, create another, something new always appears

00:44 And when we get on stage and we see the tremor of the kids and everything, you know?

00:51 Man, it was pressure, this song is pressure

00:53 It's the groove of the Amazon, you know?

00:55 [Music]

01:03 Life alone does not sustain itself, you need poetry

01:07 I say it's a rebuff in the remance, right?

01:10 I go remancing and the person will hold on, will dance

01:13 [Music]

01:16 While many artists are sleeping, waiting for success to come, I'm going after him

01:21 Only the person has to have a lot of faith

01:25 I look, I feel the music, I receive

01:28 People look at nature but do not meet it

01:32 And that was just a part of what we were thinking of doing

01:35 Which was to return to nature what we took from it

01:39 This same river that when I was a child I found untranslatable

01:42 It was this river that took me and that takes me around the world

01:45 [Music]