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The Spirit Bloweth Where it Listeth

by Tropico del Cancer

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I played and recorded this piece as one take live looping on hammered dulcimer and acoustic guitar. It was made for the exhibition "Life in Spite of Tragedy" by the Russian photographer Svetlana Volodina, Copenhagen, March 2017.

"Leprosy people are The Other, The outcast, The unloved, The suspect, The outsider, The beggars, The freaks, The infected…
The Taboo defines an in-group as against an out-group and is thus a kind of glue holding the in-group together.
I named the glory of these wonderful women, men and children"
Werner Herzog.

"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit".
Bible, John 3:8, King James Version

"We are OK. We need that somebody listen us, because we know what we need and what we do not need."
From dialogues with leprosy people

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
For the past many years, photo journalist Svetlana Volodina has documented the lives of people affected by leprosy. She has travelled to five different countries and thorugh her lense she has witnessed how victims of the dissease continues their lives and try to find meaning in it, in spite of difficult life circumstances. This exhibition is not so much about the dissease itself as it is a testimony about human tragedy and the admirable motivation for people to find a way out in difficult situations, to find the strength in one self to overcome the difficulties.
Svetlana Volodina herself writes as epilogue:
"I believe that the more the essence of the work is reflected in the title “The Spirit Bloweth Where It Listeth”, an attempt to catch the Spirit of courage of people diagnosed with leprosy disease, a strength of a man without the body, but with the Spirit and Soul, capture the man, confronted with one’s destiny and one’s attempts to overcome, accept and keep the feeling of humanity with in oneself; it is look straight on a Disease and a Man sub specie aeternitatis.
And let myself complete this text with Silence and empty sheet – for untold and white and clean space is a Question itself."

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released March 24, 2020
Hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitar and sound manipulation: Juan Pino
Photo by Svetlana Volodina

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Tropico del Cancer Copenhagen, Denmark

Juan Pino’s minimal and poetic sound universe recalls the world roots and the magic of dreams. From the many travels to the Andes, the Amazon and the Ganges he gathered a bunch of instruments at his wooden house in a park of Copenhagen: marimba, harmonicas, kalimbas, hammered dulcimer, organa, mini synths, vocals and percussion. Juan was born in Ecuador, grew up on the South of Alps. ... more

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