CD Mestre Moraes : GCAP Ligação Ancestral

The third disc recorded with Mestre Moraes and the second disc of the Group of Capoeira Angola Pelourinho (GCAP Salvador da Bahia). "Brincando na Roda" is to date the only CD of capoeira have been selected for the Grammy awards!Duration: 45 minutes.

Brass dobrão for berimbau. This is a brass piece, rather heavy, which replaces the stone (or pebble) to play the berimbau. It is one of the accessories of the berimbau like the wand or the caxixi.

Wooden Wand biriba stick for the berimbau. Traditional manufacture of biriba wood. Sold individually.

"Gingando na luta pela cidadania e a vida" was recorded by the group Ypiranga de Pastinha (musical selection Mestre Manoel) and offers 26 tracks of capoeira Angola toques and songs. But that's not all, this is also an interactive CD-ROM!

From the unpublished photographs of the Frenchman Marcel Gautherot portraying the Bahia capoeira wheels of the 1940s and 1950s, the author discusses this cultural manifestation of African roots investigating its place in that context. It is the symbolic dimension of the bodies that gyrate in the wheel, its language, its statements and its narratives that...