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Sid The Cat PresentsAmaro Freitas
8/7/2024 at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
***Fully Seated. Seating is first come, first served.***
Acclaimed Brazilian composer and pianist Amaro Frietas shares the title track "YʼY" (featuring Shabaka Hutchings) from his upcoming album, YʼY, out this Friday on Psychic Hotline. The track, which features Hutchings on flute in a duo alongside Freitasʼ on piano, is inspired by Freitasʼ enchantment at the beauty of the meeting of the Solimões and Negro rivers, where he felt that this record would be in reverence to the waters and forests. From this process came "Y'Y," a word written in the Sateré Mawé dialect, an ancestral indigenous code that means water or river. In this song, the duo translates the ancestral strength of the meeting of these waters into two opposing movements. The first showcases flowing tones of a more agitated, abundant, muddy river: the Solimões River; while the second movement bathes in the dark, meek, and silent infinite mantle of the Rio Negro.
Named one of Pitchforkʼs Most Anticipated Albums of 2024, YʼY (pronounced eey-eh, eey-eh) is "a call to live, feel, respect, and care for nature, recognizing it as our ancestor," says Freitas. He continues, "it is also a warning about the need to be aware of the impact we cause, based on the concepts of civilization and modernity that keep us away from this connection, and its importance for the balance of life on the planet." YʼY speaks to the importance of the water, the river, and our environment and how the conservation of the Brazilian rainforest is an answer to the reality of our climate struggles.
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