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ANTHROPO​-​FAGIA = Cultural Cannibalism

by Cyro Baptista & Banquet of The Spirits

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ANTHROPO-FAGIA
by Cyro Baptista

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Antropofagia ..... the only law of the universe
When Brasil was discovered in the 1500’s
Just like here in America
When Christopher Colombus arrived you had the native Americans
They were dressed and ate turkey together
But in Brasil it was a different story.
The natives were totally naked, and they lived in pre historic conditions.
Well, the Portuguese needed to colonize Brasil.
Here, the English sent the Mayflower.
In Portugal they opened the dungeons of inquisition prisons where the Jewish people were being tortured.
They called them the New Christians and send them to colonize Brasil.
Imagine these people coming out of the cages and arriving on the tropical beaches, with parrots, amazing fruits and lots of naked women…
Brasil turned into an orgy.
Fornication was going on everywhere until the king of Portugal sad…BASTA!
“We are the catholic apostolic roman empire;
we can’t let this behavior continue!!”
So, they organized a commission to moralize Brazil.
And under the leadership of Bishop Sardinha, they left Portugal and sailed to Brasil.
When they were about to arrive the coast of Bahia, a violent tempest hit the vessel, and it capsized.
The bishop and his crew swam, swam, swam, until they got to the hot sand with the sun.
And thousands of natives saw those amazing figures emerging out of the water, with those ornately hats adorned with lots of gold, diamonds and rubies and one of the native Brazilians said:
Who are this people, what we are going to do with them?
The other responded:
Let’s eat them!!
They ate the whole commission and bishop Sardinha to the last bone.
And we still do that in Brazil until today.
We eat everything that arrives in our country.
We ate the American constitution,
We ate the American revolution,
Jimmy Hendrix, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Baudelaire, keeping eating,
Donald Trump, JFK, George Bush, John Coltraine, Charlie Parker, Celine Dion, Bolshevik, Surrealism, Hollywood, Catholicism, Imperialism and even masoquism, and we keep eating and eating, forever and ever!!
We’ll never stop!
We eat and regurgitate and eat again and again and again…..

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Brian Marsella - piano forte, hammond b3, bul bul tarang, melodica
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz - acoustic bass, slide bass
Tim Keiper drum set
Carolina Santos, Gabriel Cordeiro, Cadu Costa - background vocals

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Cyro Baptista New York, New York

Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of world music, Cyro has managed to record and tour with some of music’s most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. ... more

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