#8, 9: Podcasting the abyss
Abyss 1, Edited by Ellen Máirín Johnston, Abyss 2, Recorded by Ernesto Ojeda.
Music by Carlos Merino, Ernesto Ojeda, Coral de los Reyes, Urtaa Gantulga, Gerry Carthy
sharing a new podcast, The Abyss, right on theme for March which is Women's History month and an anecdote for today which is Día de Andalucía, a day commemorating this autonomous community of which Sevilla is a province.
HOMBRE, AQUÍ
at a cafe, I see a trim man in a jacket getting what looks like a very pink drink in a sherry glass - along with his coffee. After he's left, I ask the barista what the pink drink is and he says it's a cherry liquor.
For breakfast, I say?
Hombre, aquí, he grins..to keep out the cold, he laughs
RECORDING THE ABYSS
It felt good to make the abyss into audio, especially the second episode which was recorded with a good microphone in a small makeshift studio on Saturday in the Plaza de Pelicano which is a cobblestoned makeshift area, a corralon, full of studios for dance, song, sculpture, carpentry, you name it, there is a small studio for it. Ernesto Ojeda recorded it and also contributed some music. To record, we had to wait for a trombone player to finish practicing and leave the space and then hurry to finish before the guitarist next door arrived.
I don't know how to explain, without getting overly intellectual, that these two anecdotes feel especially connected to what Andalusia is all about. I prefer to leave it as story, anecdote, something you can sorta get a feeling for, sense into, like that, aisa, así…
MARCH FOR WOMEN's HISTORY
March is Women's History Month - (they say, who decided) - and I don't usually go with the program and try to program this for that but it is kinda fitting to have the abyss behind me at the start of this month.
And I do want to share again the inspiration for the abyss: two powerful Spanish documentaries, Pico Reja and A Las Mujeres de España, and a quote from one of them by a writer named Rosa Montero who said:
Women have always had to start from scratch because they've not had the testimony of women before them. And that's a terrible disgrace. Because culture is a palimpsest. We all build on what was built before. So if you always have an abyss behind you…~ Rosa Montero, translated from Spanish, quoted in A las mujeres de España. María Lejárraga
The quote moved me into starting a 13 day blog series: 13 Days of the Abyss Behind me. CLICK HERE TO READ THE THIRTEEN ABYSS POSTS
Adelante con arte!
Shebana
