[imprensa] Inés Terra e Ajítenà Marco Scarassatti ‘Beira’, por Sounds and Colours
Sounds and Colours On The Margins By Andy Cumming 07 July, 2025
Inés Terra + Ajítenà Marco Scarassatti – Beira (Brava Edições/scatterArchive)
Inés Terra works with the outer limits of her voice, while Scarassatti plays the gangan, a Yoruba talking drum, and a modified version of the viola de cocho, a type of lute played in the deep interior of Brazil. As is becoming more common nowadays, the artists worked remotely from their respective homes in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo: one would send an improvisation—vocal or instrumental—for the other to freely interact with in response. With each new exchange, the recordings were put together with the independent contributions intertwining. It’s a challenging listen, as with much of Terra’s work, but the way she stretches her voice with the manner of Scarassatti’s unorthodox plucking and bowing of her instruments means the listener is positioned between tradition, experimentation and technology.
