The Pan-Africanism 12 inch record collection, Höröyá on Vinyl

With the Tropical Diaspora® Records Pan-Africanism collection we celebrate our work with the band Höröyá. The purpose is to create a strong musical narrative about African and the African Diaspora living in Brazil nowadays. For the Sisters and Brothers who are resisting against oppression, apartheid, settler colonialism, enslavement and colonization in the pas, also nowadays more then ever.

Music is always a way of resistance, a political and social instrument that can unify and uplift people of African ancestry world wide. We are committed to create a musical narrative about the people who crossed the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas, the encounter with the indigenous people and gave rise to cultural expressions that reflect both the horror and hope of that experience.

Our language is music. We feel obliged to empower the people we work with by means of giving them the chance to control their own narrative.

Höröyá´s song Griot Xamã, the first track on our first compilation the  TROPICAL DIASPORA #1, consists of two read statements. It begins with a text of André Piruka, accompanied by Griot Zal Sissokho playing Kora and ends with the speech of the Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa Yanomami.

Höröya is an astonishing, breathtaking band from São Paulo composed by Brazilian and African musicians from West Africa. Höröyá´s Music represents the acknowledgment, the respect and the Ancestrality of a the African roots of Brazilian culture.

Two worlds are here re-united in the powerful drums (djembe, atabaque, dunduns, berimbau or cuica) and the Mandeng culture. The Afro Diaspora in Brazil with a new generation of displaced Africans living in São Paulo the largest concrete jungle of South America, in Brazil with the largest African population outside Africa.

Höröyá makes its contribution again in our first compilation with Mandin’Groove, an infecting song in which the West-African percussion takes over the dance-floor. Following the tradition we started our new 7 inch collection Cities Of Diaspora with Höröyá again, a vinyl series featuring songs with strong narratives from the cities of the global south. Todo Lugar É Sertão featuring Chico Cesar and As Clarianas.