Canto de Xangô

This piece stems from a work where the guitar dialogues with rhythm as if they were two voices of the same call. The main melody, unfolded in Canto de Xangô, does not follow traditional meter: its phrases stretch and contract, as if each note breathes in a tempo that cannot be fully captured. The result is a sound that oscillates between the ritual and the improvised, where the instrument seems to sing rather than merely play.

The recording session was led by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Wadi Gebara Netto, who sought to capture not only the technique but also the atmosphere surrounding the performance. Recorded at a time when samba-canção and jazz intertwined in the studio, the 4:45-minute track conveys that tension between the written and the spontaneous. There are no forced corrections: any mistake, if it occurred, ended up becoming part of the result.