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Marimba Project wants to value Angolan music

A research programme, a record label and a digital platform are some of the aspects of an unprecedented Lusophone project, entitled Marimba, to promote music from Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and East Timor, was announced this Wednesday.

: Lusa
Lusa  

Marimba is an initiative of the Portuguese producer Soundsgood that obtained funding from the Procultura Program, from the European Union and the Camões Institute.

In a statement, Soundsgood explains that Marimba is a "socio-economic intervention project" that will cover "all links in the value chain of the music sector" - from research to internationalization - of those four Portuguese-speaking countries.

In Angola and Mozambique, an "exhaustive research" will be carried out on the musical heritage in public archives – of institutions and state radios – and also in private archives.

In Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste, the work will be mainly in the area of ​​anthropology and ethnomusicology, "research in the collection of musical sounds in the field, with field recordings".

Within the scope of this project, which will last three years, the publication of 11 record collections is planned, as well as the publication of books with lyrics and scores by "relevant composers" and scientific research works.

"Focusing primarily on the area of ​​music, the project aims to promote knowledge and appreciation of the musical heritage of the participating countries, in the most varied valences", reads the statement.

The producer explains that the focus will be on musical collections produced in the period between 1945 and 1986 and that their digitization, promotion and international distribution are planned.

The Marimba project will also "encourage contemporary artistic creation by young musicians" from those four countries and "create jobs for young women, historically excluded from music production".

It is planned to create a digital platform for the dissemination of the project, an agency and distribution company (Marimba Booking), a research and classification program (Marimba Heritage) or a publishing house (Marimba Sounds) based in Mozambique.

The Marimba is sponsored by five cultural 'ambassadors': Paulo Flores and Nástio Mosquito (Angola), Manecas Costa (Guinea-Bissau), Stewart Sukuma (Mozambique) and Etson Caminha (Timor-Leste).

The Procultura program, for Portuguese-speaking African countries and for Timor-Leste, is funded by the European Union, co-financed and managed by Camões, Institute for Cooperation and Language, and also co-funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Its objective is to contribute to job creation in income-generating activities in the cultural and creative economy in the PALOP and Timor-Leste.

Supported activities may include artistic research, creation of new productions or artistic works, namely in residency arrangements, programming of pre-existing productions or works, training and capacity building initiatives and specific actions to involve and develop the public.

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