{"id":200814,"date":"2018-09-12T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=200814"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:33:08","slug":"event-to-put-spotlight-in-arab-music-in-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/event-to-put-spotlight-in-arab-music-in-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Event to put spotlight in Arab music in S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The second edition of cultural event <em>O Giramundo<\/em> will feature Arab music, including a conversation and a performance by the Yaqin Ensemble (pictured) featuring musician\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/palestinian-refugee-plays-in-sao-paulo-orchestra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yousef Saif<\/a>\u00a0of Palestine (pictured, 1st, R to L), at venue Casa de Francisca in S\u00e3o Paulo, at 9:30pm this Thursday (13). The venue opens at 8pm and the admission price is BRL 35.<\/p>\n<p>The first edition of the event organized by producer Edgard Piccoli and journalist Bento Ara\u00fajo focused on the rhythms of the Congo, with a concert by the band Os Escolhidos and musician Yannick Delass. \u201cThe idea behind <em>O Giramundo<\/em> is to enable an experience of foreign tradition, a unique experience, a dive into foreign art,\u201d Piccoli told ANBA. The event\u2019s format will include an opening address from Piccoli and Ara\u00fajo and conversations interspersed with songs, with musicians and audience interacting throughout. \u201cWe\u2019re still testing out this format, because we want to contextualize each song, but we also want the show to flow,\u201d said Piccoli.<\/p>\n<p>Yaqin Ensemble is an Eastern ethnic music group created by researcher and multi-instrumentalist Mario Aphonso III. It has released two landmark Eastern music albums. According to Piccoli, the group\u2019s music can be likened to Arabesque ornaments, since it crossbreeds multiple musical forms and traditions in a repertoire ranging from Baroque and Middle Eastern music to Brazilian popular music, with Arab rhythms and scales, quarter tones and odd time signatures, a creative, innovative take on music from the East.<\/p>\n<p>The music group is one of the projects of the Tarab collective, whose goals are studying, researching, doing creative work and spreading Eastern art, poetry, music and dance in S\u00e3o Paulo. Other projects by the collective include Zikir Trio, Orkestra Bandida and TarabJazz. Yousef Saif is a 23-year old, Palestinian-born musician who plays the bouzouki, a lute-like instrument. He has been living in Brazil for little over a year now.<\/p>\n<p>According to Piccoli, \u201cthe show is an invitation to transcendence, ancestrality and the fusion of worlds and views, traditions past and present, charged with unique timbres, melodies and textures that only the interweaving of East and West can bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O Giramundo \u2013 Yaqin Ensemble &amp; Yousef Saif<br \/>\nThursday, September 13, 9:30 pm<br \/>\nCasa de Francisca \u2013 Rua Quintino Bocai\u00fava, 22 \u2013 S\u00e9, S\u00e3o Paulo<br \/>\nBRL 35.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-200795\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Giramundo will feature a conversation on the subject and performances by the Yaqin Ensemble and Palestinian musician Yousef Saif at venue Casa de Francisca this Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":200795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4601,4959,4960,6812,4954,4966,4967,4957,4955],"class_list":{"0":"post-200814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-arab-music","9":"tag-casa-de-francisca","10":"tag-edgard-piccoli","11":"tag-musica-en","12":"tag-o-giramundo","13":"tag-palestinian-music","14":"tag-tarab-collective","15":"tag-yaqin-ensemble","16":"tag-yousef-saif"},"wps_subtitle":"O Giramundo will feature a conversation on the subject and performances by the Yaqin Ensemble and Palestinian musician Yousef Saif at venue Casa de Francisca this Thursday.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}