{"id":33,"date":"2016-11-01T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/adrianagiordano.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2016-11-01T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:59:04","slug":"en-canto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/projects\/en-canto\/","title":{"rendered":"en canto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/adrianagiordano.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4932689_orig.jpg\" alt=\"En Canto \" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Formed in 2011\u00a0beneath California redwoods at a North American celebration of Brazilian music, Seattle\u2019s\u00a0En Canto was set in motion by the relentless night and day tumult of sixty-seven zabumba.<\/p>\n<p>These ever-present drums, along with almost every other instrument and stage at the camp, were dominated by men; the women in attendance were expected to sing, cheer, or act demure. As the male maestros learned then and as audiences and fellow performers in Rio, Alexandre Riberio, and Marcelo Caldi have learned since, the women of En Canto don&#8217;t do demure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/adrianagiordano.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3020708_orig-1.jpg\" alt=\"En Canto at The Triple Door\" width=\"1077\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A multi-ethnic, female-led seven-piece, En Canto\u2019s world pop music\u2014a combination forr\u00f3, samba, and choro-inspired originals and reimagined covers of classic Brazilian hits\u2014commands attention and inspires movement. \u201cWe love this music because of its compositional brilliance, its original grooves, and its revolutionary nature &#8230; its roots in post-colonialism, in cultural battles for class and racial equality,\u201d Accordionist Jamie Maschler, explains. &#8220;Why wouldn\u2019t it also inspire gender-equality?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Playing primarily in North American venues, En Canto currently channels its fierce independence into challenging stereotypes while also helping audiences expand their comfort zones. \u201cWe make people dance,\u201d as drummer Adam Kozie puts it \u201cWe routinely open our concerts to a room full of shy, awkward faces, and we close them to a sweat-drenched melee of bodies and smiles. We experience real joy when we play these songs, and people feel that, and they respond in kind, regardless of whether they understand the words or know the \u2018right\u2019 dance moves. It was the same for each us at one point when we first heard Luis Gonzaga or Gilberto Gil\u2014we were provoked and then captured by the music, and we feel honored to be able to offer our own interpretations of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/adrianagiordano.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/s982867239934726613_p5_i3_w700.png\" alt=\"Solto Por Jeri Album Cover\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>En Canto&#8217;s first LP, Solto Por Jeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-ethnic, female-led seven-piece, En Canto\u2019s world pop music\u2014a combination forr\u00f3, samba, and choro-inspired originals and reimagined covers of classic Brazilian hits\u2014commands attention and inspires movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"parent":8,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagiordanovox.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}