Recognition, by Sara Serpa

Recognition

by Sara Serpa

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Favorite track: Unity and Struggle.

World of Echo Just as her previous album was evocative of vivid dreams, this is too--but there's also a sense of unease and tension, throughout. 3/4ths of this could actually have been used to soundtrack Robert Altman's 3 Women in an alternate timeline.

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1.	Lei Do Indigenato, 1914 04:16	buy track
2.	Occupation 04:54	buy track
3.	The Multi-Racialism Myth 04:07 video	buy track
4.	Free Labour 04:03	buy track
5.	Beautiful Gardens 04:41
6.	Mercy and Caprice 03:40	buy track
7.	Civilizing Influence 02:30	buy track
8.	Queen Nzinga 04:31	buy track
9.	Absolute Confidence 04:16	buy track
10.	Control and Oppression 05:32	buy track
11.	Propaganda 04:50
12.	Unity and Struggle 05:39	buy track

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Directed by Portuguese vocalist-composer Sara Serpa, in collaboration with film director Bruno Soares.

An interdisciplinary documentary melding film imagery with music, Recognition uses Serpa’s family archival footage shot in the 1960’s in the then colony of Angola, ruled by Salazar’s fascist regime.
Taking as point of departure Portugal’s denial in confronting its colonial past, the material has been intervened and edited so to shatter lingering presumptions. It creates a sensory experience in which music and image are juxtaposed with texts by anti-colonial revolutionary Amílcar Cabral, Angolan writer Luandino Vieira and historian Linda Heywood. The documentary explores the clash between two realities: one verbally described by the colonized and the other captured by the colonizer, exposing an often silenced narrative, still a tabu today, while inviting the viewer/listener to reflect on history in a visceral way.

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released June 5, 2020

The musical score features Sara Serpa (voice, composition) Zeena Parkins (harp) and Mark Turner (saxophone) and David Virelles (piano), probes deep into the emotional core of this era through scored material and flowing improvisation.

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Sara Serpa New York, New York

Singer | Composer
Lisboa | Harlem

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discography

Intimate Strangers

Dec 2021
Recognition

Jun 2020
Close Up

Mar 2018
All The Dreams

Sep 2016
Kitano Noir

May 2015
Coast to Coast (EP)

Dec 2013
Aurora (Clean Feed)

Oct 2012
MOBILE

Sep 2011
Camera Obscura

Sep 2010
Praia

Oct 2008

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