• Ricardo Ruiz and José Balbino at the sound system of sambada de côco, during the Semussum sessions (photo: Ronaldo Eli, 2010)
    Short Essay
    Cristiano Figueiró and Henrique Souza Lima created a track made by sampling, editing, and remixing recordings from a performance made by the Brazilian group Côco de Umbigada (CdU). Here, Figuerió and Souza Lima contextualize the CdU as a cultural and political agent in the city of Olinda, Brazil, and they describe the choices they made while working with the recorded material.