Teko Porã - Ancestravel

Campaign for the recording of Teko Porã's second studio album

If you got to this page, you probably found me playing the violin in the streets of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Castelo Branco or in some other city in Portugal, where I've been living as a "musical nomad" since 2021. What you don't know, but I'll tell you, is that to be here I had to "abandon" a musical group that I belong to, Teko Porã. And which has been active for almost a decade in the concrete jungle of the largest city in Latin America, playing along the streets, sidewalks, corners, crossroads and avenues of São Paulo. Teko Porã, the group I founded and baptized at the end of 2012, and which was my greatest love in the form of art and music, completes 10 years of history as you read these lines. However, the band has been inactive since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, and now even more so with members on opposite sides of the Atlantic. This crowdfunding is our attempt to continue this project and keep making music. I say this because we have compositions for the recording of a second album, between songs that were left out of the Anamaguaçu album (2019) and new compositions resulting from my wanderings through Portuguese lands. With part of the band in Brazil and another part here in Portugal, there could only be one solution: Record remotely. A sound connection between Lisbon and São Paulo.

Ancestravel - The Album

More than the conceptual flourishes about the reason for a record with that name, referring to the internal/ancestral journeys of an artist or a group, I am left with the rawness of the statement, pure and simple: We want and need to materialize our songs, make them come true , papable. In recent years, we have gone through very difficult times in the world, and especially in Brazil, where the verb "resist" has taken on the contours of everyday surrealism. And is all this not more of the same? The incessant struggle of independent art to exist, resist, flourish. We invite you to join us in the collective construction of our new album, which also, in turn, helps to build the new world that we dream of making real. Bem Haja!

About the author

Formed at the end of 2012 in São Paulo, Teko Porã is a synthesis of the civilizing mix that gave rise to Brazil. Merging indigenous philosophical concepts, rhythms and African ancestry with elements of European classical music, the band keeps alive the tradition of bards and minstrels from ancient times, playing in the streets, squares, and, mainly, in the corridors and subway cars. Besides, of course, the "normal" shows. One of the most striking facts of Teko Porã's trajectory is perhaps the fact that they lived collectively in the same house during the years of the band's existence at Casa Barco, in São Paulo. Practically all the members in their different formations lived together in this house, which made Teko Porã not just a band, but a shared life experience. This context also gave rise to the name of the debut album, Anamaguaçu (big family, in ancient Tupi). Casa Barco was also the stage, for more than a year, of an event that promoted the independent scene in São Paulo, with intimate shows and incendiary debates, the Casa Barco Sessions.

Budget and due dates

March/April/May 2023

Recording of the album "Ancestravel" at Plateia D'Ilusões studio (Almada) - 2,500 euros (150 hours)

June 2023

Mixing and Mastering - Florencia Saravia Akamine (São Paulo) - 1,800 euros

PPL percentage (7.5+VAT) - 516.60 euros

T-Shirts manufacturing - 200 euros (estimate)

Additional expenses (post-production, sound technician, payment to guest musicians, mailings) - 500 euros (estimate)

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