esperanza spalding - Não Ao Marco Temporal (Extended Version)

esperanza spalding - Não Ao Marco Temporal (Extended Version)

The official audio for esperanza spalding’s “Não Ao Marco Temporal (Extended Version)”, out now digitally!

got some NEW MUSIC Y’ALL in celebration of the news that the majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court judges voted NO on Marco Temporal!

Hallelujah!

... But, there’s still more work to do.

For now there’s been a “No” vote on this latest heinous attack on Indigenous Rights, and all humanity’s planetary survival. But factions within Brazil’s government still are pushing to force “Marco Temporal” through.

As a person who has deep gratitude and admiration for the land and people of Brazil, and who has benefited deeply from the inspiration and education of the music born from that land, I couldn’t sit and watch this vote come-up without adding my voice to the chorus of communities tirelessly advocating to stop this (continued) violation of the land, and Indigenous people & territories of Brazil.

One late night in Rio De Janeiro, a group of passionate musicians gathered in the studio to pool our talents and energies, and encourage all parties involved to say “NO” to Marco Temporal.

We created this song with the hope its energy and message would contribute to the advocacy efforts pressuring the Brazilian courts and congress to reject Marco Temporal.

We acknowledge we are not on the deadly front lines of this battle. We stand in solidarity, and send prayers for protection and success to all those who are.

We hope and pray that this music -and your participation in it!- sends support, added visibility and energy to efforts of Indigenous communities throughout Brazil, and to the sacred and endangered being which is the Amazons herself.

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Produced by esperanza spalding, Pretinho da Serrinha and Arthur Luna

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Arthur Luna

Pretinho da Serrinha – cavaco, pandeiro, cuíca, surdo, repique de anel, caixa,

caixeta.

Felipe Chocotão – repique de mão, repique de anel, tantan, ganzá

Igor Souza – violão 7 cordas

Jav V – clarinet

Alisson, GP, Rahiza, Rachell Luz, Pretinho da Serrinha, Maria Gadu, esperanza

spalding – chorus

esperanza spalding – vocals

Lyrics:

There are some men who stop at nothing to have their way with the body of a

woman or girl.

Right now they’re calling her Brazil…

The sophisticated ones wearing their robes are preaching progress and articulately

thumbing through the laws, but you can see a certain part of their anatomy’s

aroused, global anatomy aroused by her green body parts they really wanna grab

Someone reaches out to grab her on the principal that others who have reached

her first could grab her, so they grab and grab again…

but her voice clearly says no, actually screams no in so many words but he’s

already hard, -I mean he’s really thinking hard, he must deliberate with those

who’ve had success grabbing before…

Now they stand before the public and somehow manage to keep their faces

straight, then turn to finish up their business thinking hard behind closed doors.

Now we’re left out to imagine what those grabby hands are really working towards,

shaking discreetly underneath the judges robes, right underneath our/his nose…

Now their deliberation’s coming to a close, their big epiphany is KILL her body’s

voice anywhere that it dares oppose.

And all this in the name of progress

And all this in the name of order

Killing in the name of progress

Raping in the name order

And it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

And it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

And it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

And it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

Diga não à violocão

O que é dela deixe-a chão

Do jeito que ela já mereceu

Ao tribunal federal

Não ao Marco Temporal

Não ao Marco Temporal

Não ao Marco Temporal

Diga não à violocão

O que é dela deixe-a chão

Do jeito que ela já mereceu

Ao tribunal federal

Não ao Marco Temporal

Não ao Marco Temporal

Não ao Marco Temporal

“Não ao Marco Temporal”

cause it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

cause it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

cause it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

cause it’s been going on since way before nineteen eighty eight

#esperanza #esperanzaspalding #NãoAoMarcoTemporal #Brazil