The Listening Tide with Daniel de Paula

In this episode, artist Daniel de Paula has brought ‘Archeophonics’ (2016) by poet Peter Gizzi to speak about how meaning is held in archives that are obscured from us by our surroundings, and how knowledge(s) within these, also escape language. They can be tuned-in to through sound, image, and spirit, but only if our increasingly accelerated society allows us to afford ourselves this openness.

Daniel also discusses personal antidotes for this demanding acceleration – as well as the solitude it comes with – through the music brought to the program. That of singer *Milton Nascimiento, and the power his sound and lyrics have to take him from his part-time base in Amsterdam and return him to a specific feeling of his native Brazil. As well as the music of North-American post-black-metal band **Agalloch, who offered a proper curve-ball at the end of the show.

As always, good stuff.

(* 'Promeses do Sol' written by Fernando Brandt & Milton Nascimiento, 1976 EMI Records Brasil Ltd.)

(** 'Blood Birds', 2006 The End Records)