“We are two crazy about music with a terrible desire to share”

“The connection we have does not start in music, it starts in the way we see life.” On that closeness, as Ariel Bringuez explains, Alma is supported in Cuba, the project that the saxophonist shares with Iván Melón Lewis. “When you are in a band of 15, you still get fatal with the clarinet, but look, he is far away, in the other corner, we all play, the public enjoys and already is. But in a duo, there is no possibility. It is important that ther…

Music, religion and ancestry on the second day of Ciclo Afro In new coverage of Ciclo Afro at FILBo 2024, the Alma Preta portal highlighted the prominence of musical expressions, religious practices and ancestral knowledge on the second day of the event. The article highlights the power of encounters between tradition and contemporaneity, and shows how the space has consolidated itself as a territory for the celebration and affirmation of black…