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Açucar / Sugar
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song:
...and of the sons my father had,
of the sons my father had,
I was the wildest
my only sorrow,
my only sorrow,
it not having my child by my side...
telephone call:
so, these days loads are still carried,
they're still carried, for example sugarcane...
we, we have rum production in Madeira
and we also export, we export rum
so you see around May
the amount of trucks loaded with sugarcane
sugarcane? towards Calheta
it has to be in warmer regions
and one of the sugar mills that produces the most,
that, say, transforms the sugarcane and makes rum
and those types of things, is in Porto da Cruz
but there is a time of year where you see loads of trucks
passing by with sugarcane
song:
...when I was a young man
(and everybody would repeat: aan)
I sang and all things trembled
when I was a young man
I sang and all things trembled
I sang in Caniçal
Santa Cruz shook
I sang in Caniçal
Santa Cruz shook
telephone call:
I know there is a sugar factory here, no, two
which is mostly used to make local products, I imagine
hum, I'm here beside The People's Bazar
and behind me is that place, I mean, Santo António's Factory
that makes cookies, exactly, they produce with,
with sugar from Madeira if I'm not mistaken
but it might be that that's the lowest percentage
and the rest comes from abroad
like, in Brisa, our famous Passionfruit Brisa
it's all passionfuits from Brasil, yeah
no passionfruit is from here, from Madeira
many, many years ago
it was like that for a while
but then it got to a level of production
that was so big, that there was no one
that was able to produce so many passionfruits
so they started a business with Brasil.
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2. |
Cereal / Cereal
05:00
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song:
you called me black oh black
if I’m black of that I know
but the black bottle also serves
‘wheaty’ serves at the king’s table
telephone call:
the seeds issue is a worry of that department
which is, if there is a crises and we don’t have products, is one thing
but if we don’t have products and we have seeds, is another
the issue is that the entities, in a way, try to safeguard stocks
but they forget that stocks run out
and if there are seeds we always have the possibility of…
it’s something else, it’s a weapon that is more… sensible
the question of food security is that, in fact, it’s the seed bank
song:
we’re gonna harvest the wheat
that is lying on the ground
it was with that rain that came
in the morning of St. John
telephone call:
there were these locals here that told me
that they will be opening here in Santana, in the center,
like, a bread house, a cereal house,
which is to incentivise the locals to replant, to cultivate,
and the people here have spoken a little about this
and I’ve been incentivising, ‘look’
‘if you do it I have people in the south to buy that’
to start creating a buzz, you know what I mean?
so people go ‘ah, something…’
song:
we’re gonna harvest the wheat
we’re gonna choose the rust
the wheat goes to the cellar
the rust stays on the ground
telephone call:
customs, good afternoon
it’s about food?
hum, that, therefore…
it would be advisable, and it really has to be,
it’s not by telephone, because that isn’t available
you have to, if you make an email
and explain for what purpose you wish to know that information
the director can give you some hint, ok?
afunchal@at.gov.pt
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3. |
Erva / Hay
05:00
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telephone call:
I can tell you that, every week,
I send berries and Vitacress salads, of Vitacress,
every week, I can reach… 4, 8, 12, in this calmer period,
it’s one-thousand two-hundred kilograms
every week, to Madeira
song:
if my father gave me schooling
(…)
if my father gave me schooling
(…)
telephone call:
ah, a lot of people will have to return to the fields, to plough
don’t you see sometimes, when things start getting tighter,
there is something that happens in Madeira,
where to cease to see abandoned lots?
suddenly it starts to become, it all starts to…
even people our age, you know?
that never gave a crap about school and stuff
they see everything tightening up,
then they discover their dad’s hoe, or their grandad’s,
file, start to plough and say:
‘damn, the land is giving things!’
‘the land is growing!’
and then, and then that’s when
they start becoming enlightened!
song:
the schooling my dad gives
is the grass sickle on the hand
and the schooling my dad gives
is the grass sickle on the hand
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4. |
Lenha / Firewood
05:00
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song:
from the sea
doesn’t go to the wood
to cook lunch
telephone call:
and through boat also arrive the fossil fuels
the energy dependency of the island
Madeira’s electricity, you go to the website
and there it tells you the percentage of electricity
produced in the island, and I think it is 3%
oh yeah, what is your other option?
song:
my mom sent me to the wood
during the time there was none
I brought her dried thatch
what else could my mom want
telephone call:
how much time did we have of food?
how much time did we have of electricity?
man, it’s daunting…
of food you have about a month,
and that’s already stretching it
song:
oh, I went to the wind’s ridge
and the wind wanted to take me
I went to the wind’s ridge
and the wind wanted to take me
no wind that can take
before my love arrives
telephone call:
man, are you understanding?
if this type of information gets out there…
can you imagine the drama this might cause?
you see? because already at the start of this pandemic
there was the toilet paper situation
people started panicking,
and we’re talking about toilet paper..
song:
and my mom sent me to the woods
and I brought her a bunch of broom
and she is pretty happy
she is pretty happy
to now knead for Christmas eve
telephone call:
what we export is… look,
a lot, is wood of eucalyptus, bananas,
we also export some garbage, right?
things to then be treated, right?
metals and hum…
paper, I think paper also goes abroad
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5. |
Peixe / Fish
05:00
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song:
oh my love is from the sea, from the sea, walks on sand
oh my love is from the sea, from the sea, walks on sand
earning for me shoes and nice socks
earning for me shoes and nice socks
telephone call:
you know that not long ago,
a company, well... not a company,
the Azorean fisherman, the local fisherman themselves,
made a protest (slash strike), with a company
that was facilitating the sale of fish
to other fisherman from Madeira.
They were fishing in the Azores territory
because here they weren't finding any,
and the local fisherman didn't have anywhere
to send their stuff, and because the company
was bigger and they made more money
that the ones from Madeira,
they were really struggling there.
So not even in the sea
we have a sustainable environment...
song:
oh I went to the bottom of the sea
for I was the wildest
oh I went to the bottom of the sea
for I was the wildest
and there came the sea to toss me on land
there came the sea to toss me on land
half dead half alive
there came the sea to toss me on land
half dead half alive
telephone call:
if there happens a catastrophe in Caniçal,
we're gonna starve for sure
or we'll start eating grass
we'll eat grass
song:
I crossed the long-one, the worst is the big-mouth
I crossed the long-one, the worst is the big-mouth
and you know well that the north sea brings our hands rashes
and you know well that the north sea brings our hands rashes
telephone call:
and I'm not even speaking about the quantity of fish,
or of sea bream that leave Madeira
man we, every day; Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
we send everyday three-thousand five-hundred,
four-thousand kilograms of fish here
[continental Portugal], of sea bream.
No, it's from those fish farms
the carnivorous sea bream,
I'm calling it carnivorous because,
as everybody knows, a lot of fish
in aquaculture, they start eating each other
song:
oh whoever finds me here singing will think I'm lighthearted
My heart is sadder that the ink one writes with
I will find another life
because the sea doesn't suit me
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6. |
Vinho / Wine
05:00
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front man push ahead
this feels like a fest
it's because of our language
that there is war in Portugal
this is American wine
in Madeira there is none alike
telephone call:
we also export Madeira wine, yes yes yes,
we export Madeira wine and now
table wine is already being produced in Madeira,
there are some companies producing it
but the quantities are not very big, right?
and the price... it makes the price not very...
I mean, a bottle of table wine from Madeira is not so...
you can't buy it in the supermarket for three euros.
oh wines from Alentejo... forget it, forget it, no, no, ok?
kisses, bye bye bye
song:
the boss meets the control
how much will you pay us?
careful with the end man
the wine will spill
telephone call:
and then, there is a huge wine and rum business,
which are the wine casks, of Madeira wine.
a wine barrel that matures Madeira wine,
you have no idea of that barrel's value...
and if the barrel has like one-hundred
or two-hundred years...
man companies like Jack Daniels,
the big whiskeys, the big whiskey brands,
big whiskeys buy those for the price of gold
and there was, for many years,
a giant mafia in Madeira,
selling those old barrels we had,
it was so huge, that all of a sudden
Madeira was almost at risk of not having any barrels
song:
I'm been working for so long
and the boss has not paid me
telephone call:
and so, they started doing something else,
which was, now they're renting the oak barrels,
so these are rented for two-hundred years
or one-hundred and fifty years
song:
how much will you pay me?
if you don't pay me I'll sing no more
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RHO
Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho work together in audio-visual composition, performance, installation and interventions.
Sound reappears with a prominent role in all projects through the means of field recordings, interviews, vocal and instrumental material, historical and contemporary.
Here feature the sound pieces that appear in their work as larger projects.
Their sound duo is called RHO.
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