Ogunde, Traditional Afro-Brazilian song (arr. by John Coltrane and Fabio Rambelli)

Performed by Fabio Rambelli (shō)
Programme Note:
Ogunde is a traditional Afro-Brazilian song dedicated to the gods, adapted for shō by Fabio Rambelli after John Coltrane's version (1967). This melody, from a very distant musical tradition, resonates incredibly well with the classical repertory of gagaku and its power to interact with the non-human.
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Music and the Non-Human
2024 Concert Series, Concert 3
21 July 2024, Kyushu University, Faculty of Design, Acoustic Research Centre
Series Concept:
This year's concert series ‘Music and the Non-Human’ is part of a three-year research project that draws on Japanese philosophy and aesthetics rooted in premodern, non-Western ontologies to interpret the relationship between human and non-human sounds from a new perspective.
The composers explore their relationship with nature and spiritual elements, drawing inspiration from pre-modern philosophy and nō theatre works. Inspiration from nature, field recordings and contemporary music with traditional instruments intersect to define meaningful ways of creating, listening to, sharing (and discussing) music in unstable times.