A residential cruise ship that was supposed to travel around the world has been stuck in Northern Ireland for the past three months.
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This is part of Global Sounds, a collection of stories spotlighting the music trends forging connections in 2024.
In the first episode of Turn of the Tide, a 2023 Netflix series set two decades prior in the Azorean working-class neighborhood of Rabo de Peixe, a young man peruses DVDs in a video rental store. “Any new movies in?” he asks the clerk. “The new releases haven’t changed in weeks.”
She glowers at him and snaps, “When does anything new happen in this godforsaken place?”
Rising up from the Atlantic Ocean some 900 miles off the coast of Portugal, the Azores is one of the most isolated places in Europe. Shaped by volcanoes, battered by storms, and conditioned by vast distances, the archipelago contains the westernmost point in the European Union and also some of its poorest communities. Farming and fishing are the islands’ economic drivers, and the urge to leave is so deeply instilled that the diaspora—spread across the United States, Canada, Brazil, and beyond—is estimated to be six times larger than the population of the islands, a mere 244,000 people (and steadily shrinking). But sometimes isolation is the best crucible for creativity. Today a homegrown music scene is simultaneously exploring new worlds and rescuing ancient traditions, proving in the process that, for all the hardship that Azoreans have suffered, there’s a lot to be proud of.
At the center of this movement is Tremor, an annual festival based on São Miguel, the most populous of the Azores’ nine islands. Since 2013 it has brought together local musicians across genres—folk singers, rappers, marching bands—with cutting-edge artists from around the globe: Chicago jazz polymath Angel Bat Dawid, Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Herlop, Tuareg guitar hero Mdou Moctar, powerhouse Montreal saxophonist Colin Stetson, Dutch-Turkish psych rockers Altin Gün.
Tremor—a Portuguese word for “earthquake”—reflects not only the islands’ seismic instability but also the desire to shake São Miguel back to life.
The festival is the brainchild of Luis Banrezes Kitas, a Porto native who first came to São Miguel in 2007 to play roller hockey for a year. He fell in love with the islands and stayed. Still, he missed the cultural dynamism of his hometown. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, “Ponta Delgada was totally deserted,” he says of the archipelago’s capital, a city of some 48,000 people. Late in 2012 he began hatching plans to fly in the roster of hip Porto label Lovers & Lollypops, working alongside a few collaborators: the imprint’s founders, Laranejeira and Joaquim Durães, and António Pedro Lopes, a Lisbon-based curator, artistic director, and actor who grew up on São Miguel but fled the island at the age of 15. “If the community
A residential cruise ship that was supposed to travel around the world has been stuck in Northern Ireland for the past three months.
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