Hi-Brazil

Come and SeeAK1

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:57:00 +0000

AK1 YouTube Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:38:00 +0000

You do not have Quicktime? Still uses Windows PC? Do not know how to access the SoundCloud? No problem ... we have created a playlist with the new album on our YouTube channel. It's just to click "play".

AK1 on SoundCloud

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:54:00 +0000

You do not have Quicktime? Still uses Windows PC? Then access AK1, the new album by HI-BRAZIL on our Soundcloudchannel.

AK1 Release

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:36:00 +0000

A gift in this Solstice: AK1

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:31:00 +0000

The forces of the Solstice can be felt everywhere. The Wheel of the Year has turned once more ... and with that comes the certainty that we are all connected to a Higher Power, called Nature. While we have just channeled for the computer keyboard the second volume of the series The Song of the Spheres, we offer a gift to all our friends and collaborators. The soundtrack of the upcoming book, the continuation of the story: AK1.

Thales, the "bearer of the flame of courage," was only 12 when Bétula, Mrs. Frosty Land, urged him for a mission ... finding and learn to play with a harp made of light, seven musical notes of the Song of the Spheres. A Holy song, capable of arousing men to their dormant state and selfishness and thus rebalance the forces of nature on Earth.

He knows he does not have much time to complete his mission. Hatred spreads around the globe like a virus, bringing all sorts of impure desires.Thales deceiving knows that the humans to spread that hatred is the mission of Kroll, the terrible monster of Silence. Like Thales, Kroll knows that every living being has within himself a musical note which vibrates, sonorous. This note is the sum of the frequency of vibration of all molecules in our bodies. Kroll also knows that all living beings, when their notes join in harmony, they do sound a song that is able to ascend to higher dimensions.Therefore, it is called The Song of the Spheres.

Launched in 2008, the first volume of the book, along with the soundtrack, revealed Thales's desire to fulfill its mission . His strength, courage and determination to face the dangers that challenged him. In AK1, Thales will face the worst enemy with which they could be faced: his own inclination to evil.

Accept this gift ... download the songs, share with your friends and family. The second volume of The Song of the Spheres will be released soon. But if you have not read the first volume, accept our offer as a gift this Solstice. The download, in PDF, is free. And it can be shared with everyone!

Download now the soundtrack for The Song of The Spheres Vol.2

AK1

And here you can download the first volume of

the book

And also of

the album

AK1: debut in 21-12-2011

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:55:00 +0000

In the next December 21th, the new album of HI-BRAZIL, AK1, will debut on the Internet. AK1 is the continuation of the epic The Song of the Spheres.

Thales, the bard must be able to find the seven notes of the Song of the Spheres, and with his magic harp, make it sound again on Earth. This is the only way to prevent Kroll, the Monster of Silence, continue to rule humans with his selfishness.

The boy knows that he can only be successful in his mission with the help of his friends. But he will be able to honor this friendship? His friends will be able to do that? Thaleswill be able to fulfill his mission? In AK1, you will know.

LDTS - The Singles - Remix at the aim of randomness

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:47:00 +0000

From Top:

"A cold wind blows from the North this spring without flowers in the Southern Hemisphere, while a placid silence settles around. Past, present and future merge as Time dissolves. The target ,mobile, is based on instinct. Breathes fear and exhales courage. Intuition attentive, reaction holds. Dreary feeling that nurtures the soul. While the heart does the samba in the random compass of life.

Is the aim!"

From Low:

The track LDTS - The Singles was released in 2008, in an EP of remixes of the debut album of HI-BRAZIL, Let's do the Samba!. More than 32,000 people have watched the video for the original song that gives name to the album, which can be watched on the channel that the trio of artists holds on YouTube. And which now, in 2011, will host a visual version of this remix.

Just click on the image below and have a nice trip!

meaTing

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:27:00 +0000

time for meaTing!

Kick me!

Don't Give Up! Prophecy

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:44:00 +0000

Forget to be!

Forget.

For

getting Earth.

Birth of lie!

A bird in fly.

She is

coming Earth.

Her hair is on!

Her fair gone.

Home

burning Earth.

Coach of frogs!

Barking dogs.

Money

shaming Earth.

The light, so cold!

A trap in gold.

Love

blowing Earth.

Chained in fear!

The dark bears.

Heart

trembling Earth.

Let's multiply!

Shall let you die.

Opened

seeing Earth.

One is one

Two is two

Could you know

That all is true?

Three is three

Four is four

Should let you know

That time is forth?

Don't Give Up! Poetry

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:43:00 +0000

One year ago, we asked to a beautiful friend from Northlands to listen to the first mix of Don't Give Up!. It was October, 13, 2010. She listened to. And surprised us with a generous and tender gift. Words spoken not by the lips of a woman, not written by the hands of a poetess, but words dictated by the pulsating love inside the heart of an ancient soul...and we'd like to share them with you. Thank you, word rider...for still being a light bearer. Our hearts are one.

You can find the wonderful pieces of Diana's art on her blog:

Or you can acquire one of her books here:

Or, if you are using iPad, iPod or iPhone, click here:

Don't Give Up!

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:49:00 +0000

When Justice comes from Nature

The plot

A faint cold still hangs over the island of Guaiaó this spring. It was right here, in this small island to the South of the Atlantic, that the settlers came to the lands known by the Indians, ancient inhabitants of these lands, as Enguaguaçu. That, in Tupi-Guarani, means Great Bay. Received by the natives with awe and curiosity, they responded with gunfire to any attempt of approaching. The reports of the historians are clear to narrate the slaughter that ensued from there.

The genocide did not spare the children or the elderly. It was necessary to establish there, in those lands "wild" and populated by "pagans", the first village of the conquered country. To draw away their wealth and send back portions to the colonialist crown. And the green of the forest was dyed red ...

The same red which tinged the trunk of Brazil Wood, wood so valuable to the trade that they were not slow to cut down forests. Miles and miles of virgin forest were destroyed in the name of the economic growth of the colony. After all, it was necessary to expand the cities ... and ensure the continued extraction of wealth. And the green of the forest was dyed brown …

The same brown that now paints the land infertile and the rivers of the metropolis. Aquatic beds that once sustained fish, but which pollution turned into mud and sewage. Today flooded with putrid waste from residents, who work tirelessly to maintain economic growth of the cities, extracting oil from the depths of the earth, so the settler receives the portions due to him. And the sand was dyed black …

The music

In June 2010, we had programmed some rhythmic bases on tribal divisions with 100 BPM, with a focus on the human heartbeat. Maurício asked Andrew to sing what could come to his mind. Diving in the first layers of percussion, the lyrics and melody came out of his mouth in a single take, recorded in one of the few cold nights of winter here in Southern Hemisphere.

In the arrangement, we agreed to use the instruments and voices tuned based on the Pythagorean musical scale, with the note A = 432 Hz, instead of the usual 440 Hz. The message of the lyrics, we realized during editing, is divided in four different views (voices).
The first of these voices is that of Justice itself, that brings freedom to the enslaved peoples in the form of revenge. Not the vengeance of men, offered under the weight of their laws and judgments. But the rematch, the turnaround practiced by natural laws, theologically symbolized by the Divine Justice, which represents the reaction for every action, the unspeakable consequences of our actions.

She (the Justice) brings fire in her hands, symbolizing the flame of consciousness. The awareness that will make itself known - whether by love, either by pain. Whether because we accept our fate, either because we suffer trying to change it. Only the conscience offers salvation.

The second "voice" is the speech of the conquered peoples. Suffering while waiting for a solution to their destination. But they remain hopeful and are able to redeem their ancestor contact with the Sacred Feminine in the form of Justice, making rise, thus, this power over them. They are the "little ones".

The third is the voice of the shaman, the wise one who, if not reached the ultimate state of enlightenment, yet is able to establish a bridge between the divine and the profane. He emerges as the messenger, who has visions, glimpses of what lies ahead. It is he who sees the flame of consciousness transforming the oppressor, consuming his soul so he can realize his faults and has the opportunity to correct them, transforming this way, himself and the environment.

The fourth and last is exactly the voice of the one who oppresses, of the one who commits injustice against their brethren. And which inevitably will see arises in the horizon the sign of the consequences of his ambition, of his desperate struggle for power. Power over the other because he is unable to maintain control over himself. This character is revealed by the irregular verb conjugation of a few phrases of the lyrics, which identifies him as a "foreigner" who does not speak the language or not knows the the habits of the people which he subjugates.

What is positively astonishing - and there lies the role of lyricism in the lyrics - is that, even knowing that, under the sword of Justice, he will have to abandon the old rules and choices that caused unnecessary pain and suffering in their fellow men, he is able to recognize the flame of consciousness brought by the hand of the vengeful aspect of Justice. And at the end, he gives himself, lets himself be consumed by the fire of virtue, to be born into a new stage in the evolutionary scale. And he understands that only by accepting the inevitability of "death" is that we are reborn into the consciousness of eternity.

"Of course, the lyrics here does not deal with physical death itself, but the" death", the end of the molds, shapes, aspects of our personalities that we do not need or do not want more. And, to be surrounded by the "upper lights," as the song says, we must face this "death" not as the loss of something vital, but as the transformation of an old form to a whole new one. A revival! "explains Andrew.

"To achieve this revitalization, we need to never give up our ideals. And combat the injustice with force within us so that she no longer to exist outside of us. Only the honor of a pure intention, the most beautiful of jewelry, will be able to undo the knots that bind men in their folly, "said Maurício.

The video

Every creative process depends on a number of factors. Internal, such as mood, intent, goal, desire; and external, such as criticism, suggestions, experiences. We, of HI-BRAZIL, we respect each of these signals as contributors of the artistic process. And we blend them to the mass with which we shape, with great care, our small digital "sculptures".

In the case of the Don't Give Up! project, it was no different. With the fluidity of a river that slips through the rocks of a mountain, each piece of the puzzle was coming together with the subtlety of a lotus in bloom. Nothing was imposed, nothing was measured. Everything just flowed, how it would have be.

Excerpts from television reports, documentaries and even video games are responsible for the narrative. Mixed with images captured by the cameras and iPhones of André and Guacymar, they form the intricate plot and undeniable which the music deals with. "Demystifying the doubt, " as Guacymar prefers to say.

"The music was ready a year ago. She waited for the right moment to be revealed, went through a maturation time till it reached the dimension of the images. And the result is an overwhelming encounter between past and future. Shaping the present ..." he concluded.

Technical info:

Composition of lyrics and music + vocals: André Luiz Salibi

Arrangement + production + finalization + cover art: Mauricio Businari

Elaboration + production + execution of the video: Guacymar Mazzariello

Thanks: Internet + Internet users

HI-BRAZIL 2011

hibrazil@mac.com

homepage.mac.com/hibrazil

hi-brazil.blogspot.com

youtube.com/hibrazil

Vamos Começar • Let's Start

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:23:00 +0000

20!!

She will come...

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:39:00 +0000

It's Spring. The dry and warm air this Winter gave way to showers of hail covering the ground of the city with a white carpet of ice. After Epilogue announcing last spring, and Prologue, days before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we're very pleased to share with you now, the initial moment of this new season.

Our adventure started four years ago, when the project The Song of the Spheres was born. Also in Spring, details about the story began to show up. And it tells about Thales, a boy who has a mission to find seven very special musical notes, which are hidden in different places on the Planet. With them, he can make the music of the Universe sound on Earth, by adjusting in this way, the natural forces that act upon us.

From the beginning, we knew that support Thales in his journey would not be easy. But our soul seemed prepared for the task. Furthermore, our intention was transformed. And so we begin to create the fantastic world of Bétula, Argon, Melíade and many other magical characters that accompany the boy on his mission. The story was unfolding in a spontaneous, unplanned way. Then came the first notes on the keyboard ... the first song, the first arrangement ... the voices of the choir ...

As a result we had in 2009 the first volume of the saga, The Bard and the Ice Queen, and 14 songs written and produced for the soundtrack that accompanies the work. The songs are as addenda, appendices that complement the story. It is as if parts of the saga were told without the use of words, using only the physical resources of sound frequencies.

Four summers have passed and today we are completing the writing of the second volume of the story and producing new songs. Much has happened and much is yet to come. Change is inevitable. However, we still believe that there is time to reflect on what remains for the future.

We want the future as envisioned and written by someone in the apocalyptic texts of "sacred" books, where there's no salvation for anything? Or we want the future as well as Thales, giving us to dangerous missions to save life on Earth? How far does our desire for comfort?

Wait! We will soon have big news about this work.

Warmest greetings,

Maurício & André.

The portals between worlds are open. It's time to release Prólogo (Prologue)

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:39:00 +0000

Hello, friends!

The portals between worlds are open. It is Samhain night in the Southern Hemisphere, when the veil between the worlds rises to celebrate the death along with our ancestors, reminding us always that it is from death that life comes. And it is Beltane in the northern hemisphere, when the gates are opened to commemorate the union between God and Goddess, male and female, the creation of life in its fullness.

In festive mood, we present to you the new video from HI-BRAZIL: Prologue.

For the day comes when the desert sands

shall fill thy holy places

New faiths shall make a mock of all thy

holies, and centurion shall call unto centurion across

thy fortress walls...

(Harmachis)

Synopsis:

In a desert, two friends gather to revere Nature. They scratch symbols on sandy soil and greet the spirits of the place. The landscape is lush, though it seems bleak. Nomads, they know some mysteries about life that there is born and dies every day.

Thousands of miles away, several colleagues gather to explore nature. They draw graphics on work boards and greet the bankers of the site. The atmosphere is stifling, though it seems comfortable. Sedentary, they know many mysteries about the money that there is counted and recounted every day.

Background:

Duality. If it could be expressed in one word, that word would be chosen by HI-BRAZIL to set the video for Prologue. Made specially for the release of the second volume of the saga The Song of the Spheres, the music will be part of the soundtrack of the work that is being created by the two artists.

"It may seem paradoxical to choose the word duality to express the prologue of a story," says Maurício Businari. "But it's exactly upon the balance of opposing forces that this work is based."

When darkness and light are in balance, says Maurício, Nature shows itself creative, inspiring. But when something happens that endangers the harmony between them, the result is chaotic and destructive.

"Imagine you are among friends and is approached by strangers. They force you to drink a strange potion that turns you into a zombie. You then proceeds to do all the wants of strangers, forgetting forever your origins," says Maurício.

"It's like the story of Aladdin," added André Luiz Salibi. "Where the genie is imprisoned in a lamp by a black magician, that casts over him a curse. And he is forced to satisfy the desires of any person to possess it."

According to André, for the ancient people of the desert, the desires are flames that, lit by passions purely selfish, can cause terrible disasters. "In this video, we try to illustrate this issue, using excerpts from old films, produced in the 1950s, that are under Public Domain Licenses. They are interesting pictures, stories that intersect themselves and eventually go parallel, towards an unclear outcome."

Epilogue, the first video released by the duo to announce the second volume of The Song of the Spheres, refers to this outcome. Like Prolog, it can be seen on channel HI-BRAZIL on Youtube:

http://youtube.com/hibrazil

Project The Song of the Spheres

The project The Song of the Spheres was born of the HI-BRAZIL's need to create, through art, a record about the striking changes that are being operated in the terrestrial environment as a result of human selfishness. "And it is also as a survival manual," says Maurice. "A guide, a map to help us in finding the lost child within us."

The book tells the story of Thales, a boy born and raised in a large city on Earth, and his extraordinary adventure around the globe in search of the seven notes of the Song of the Spheres. This song is powerful, it is the union of the vibrations of the atoms of all living beings. And it is this song who keeps life in balance. But men, with their factories and cities, are reducing very quickly the frequency range of this music.

At the request of Bétula, The Lady of The Icy Lands and connoisseur of ancient mysteries, Thales agrees to participate in the long and perilous journey in search of musical notes with which he can make sound again, with a harp whose strings are made of light, the Song of the Spheres .

"The book was born because of that desire that we both had to go around, leaving the past behind, venturing ourselves into risky missions to save the Earth," concludes Andrew.

The saga is divided into two volumes. The first, The Bard and the Queen of Ice, is originally written in Portuguese and is available for download at the duo's site, along with the soundtrack, also created and produced by HI-BRAZIL:

http://homepage.mac.com/hibrazil

The second volume of the series is being produced and will be released in December this year (2010).

The beginning can be the end... it's all a matter of points

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:08:00 +0000

Greetings

Hello, friends! What was one, then two and after that, three, became two again. And in its dual expression of Nature! Two lives in cohesion, souls going to the core. "Down the staircase, I found gravity's warmth", says Maurício Businari, from HI-BRAZIL. "It is the kind of thing you discover when you start to dig deep the dry sands of a desert. You can find a skull, a scorpion or even a beautiful and rare flower. If you find the second, you have protein. The third one, connection with Nature and, the first one, a good snare".

Maurício says that this kind of experience is like "those moments when you are in the middle of a fucking nightmare and feels that you are alone, even surrounded by thousands of people, no one will see you or help you, because they can't listen to what you are saying. You just try to shake your arms and hands, scream at them, but their ears just can't receive the frequencies...That's why - maybe - the third vertice of the triangle supposed for an instance to be itself the point in the middle. So this geometric figure has been changed and first of all it assumed a form of a line between two points, but now it is proved to be a circle".

Greenvange

HI-BRAZIL is now going to re-set their clocks to the moon and is receiving showers of inspirational sonorous and pictorial artistic references. The Brazilian duo is now working on the second book of the saga The Song of the Spheres. "While most of turtles insist to keep their swollen bodies into their shells, a bunch of butterflies fly straight to the light of the sun...In their aerial march, they touch with gentleness the ionosphere around the cities.

What an harp have in common with the arid scenario of a desert? Thales, our young and courageous hero, is going to discover it. And you will, too, soon. "That's why we are working too in a videoclip for the second soundtrack album, that will be released later this year, altogether with the book", Explains André Luiz Salibi, beginning his speech and conducting this post to its end. "All stories are sectioned by acts, by moments. We released Epílogo first. So we will be - in the next days - ready to release another important part of it".

"In the next days", says André...So, keep tuned! This will be around you soon!

HI-BRAZIL interview on Awakenings Show (Blogtalkradio)

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:12:00 +0000

Hello, my friends. We have many news to share with you about HI-BRAZIL projects. One of them is the interview that André and Maurício gave to Michele Meiche's Awakenings Show on Blogtalkradio last month. In the show, they talk about The Song of the Spheres, the epic work that is being produced by the duo, and about the beginning of a collaboration process with Kathleen Casey and Simon Ashaan. Simon Ashaan is an intuitive musician, inventor, producer, and channel from Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud (New Zealand) living with his family in the North Island. Kathleen Casey lives in California, USA, and offers sound experiences, practices and intuitive coaching/counseling as a catalyst and support for your journey to wholeness, happiness and true freedom. We will post more news about this project soon. For now, we're glad to invite you to enjoy the show! :)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awakenings/2009/11/25/song-of-spheres

Dr Remy: new collaborative remix with HI-BRAZIL, lubzi and David Bradley

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:52:00 +0000

Hi, friends! If you missed DrRemy's Collaboration Weekly Music Celebration, it's time to try it. Below is a transcription of what DrRemy wrote about this set in her BLOG. Enjoy!

(...)

This music set is a collaboration with @sciencebase, David Bradley, @Lubzi and @Businari, Mauricio.

I opened the set with (@sciencebase) David’s Here Comes the Sun mixed with (@Businari) Businari’s Baal from Hi-Brazil Soundtrack from the epic book The Song of the Spheres, Vol.1, The Bard and the Queen Of Ice. http://homepage.mac.com/hibrazil/bardo1_index.html (details of the Legend)
This represents sunrise on our planet earth, Gaia.

Next I mixed rectus limbus from Businari’s Hi-Brazil Let’s Do the Samba: http://homepage.mac.com/hibrazil/ldts_index.html (for details) as this represents the sunrise has now warmed our earth.

I picked Babak and transition to (@Lubzi) Lubzi’s Braham. This represents that we, as human race, have set up way of life that resonates our higher self. According to Lubzi’s Braham: is Braham Lincoln, as is also Abraham, the ‘father’ of the Jews and Arabs: The Wise Father as is Abraham Lincoln: The Government of the People.

I like the fact that Lubzi’s piece represents both the Arabs and the Jews as one, connecting by Abraham. It is wise of her to do so in this fashion of music and speech combined.

Again from David’s Sunrise to warm the earth by Businari’s pieces and closing with Lubzi’s Braham as Abraham to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.

What talented friends I have. Thank you David, Mauricio and Lubzi….. You have honored me much!

(...)

We'd like to thank DrRemy (@DrRemy on Twitter), @lubzi and David Bradley (aka @sciencebase) for such love and energy!

Collaboration Nov 6 2009 Final by DrRemy

Epílogo: @DrRemy new neuromix available

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:38:00 +0000

Hello, friends. The last HI-BRAZIL music video, Epílogo, called the attention of DJ @DrRemy, that made a good remix of it with the Shakira's "Loba" latest song.

"This #WeeklyMusicCelebration remix set is a collaboration from a Brazilian music producer, Mauricio Businari (also known as @Businari on twitter). His piece calls HI BRAZIL - Epilogo (Epilogue). I started Businari's piece of our set with a Hand of Maiden with her breathe and pulses (as a form of heart beats) which represent Femininity's Nature and Temperament. I remix the set with a Bass Guitar and various drums (using in ritual drum circle and spiritual dance through out our planet) as keeper of the temporal or timing to the music. The down beat is at 129 beats per minute (BPM) for the purpose to organically invoke the body movement ~ dancing ~ in keeping it light with a touch of amusement and joy", as she explains in her BLOG.

HI BRAZIL Epilogue: Earth is A Sacred Femininity: Understanding as Pulse of The Universe, Galaxies and Beyond by DjDocREMY

Enjoy it!

Epilogue: collaboration of artists from various countries announces second volume of The Song of the Spheres

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:40:00 +0000

New video from HI-BRAZIL counts with the participation of 51 artists from 15 countries

"On a mountain, a strong wind begins to blow, announcing major changes. The body trembles, the mouth opens wide and the words start a panoramic flying over the waters of the unconsciousness. Images appear in heaven, They are spread in shades of white and blue while the message is ongoing. incisor, as an infallible arrow that made its plumb in patches of sun that the darkest clouds let go through ...".

This is the argument of Epilogue, the new HI-BRAZIL video. Produced for the release of the second volume of the saga A Song of the Spheres, the video consists of images from Nature, captured by the trio of artists and collaborators who also use Creative Commons licenses to release their work. The 666 rmx guys, that are helping again HI-BRAZIL staff to bring Epílogo (Epilogue) to you, used images of 51 artists from 15 countries, including Brazil, United States, South Korea, Iceland and Japan.

The second volume of the epic, Urda, the Elder from the Sands of Time, will be launched in 2010. For the soundtrack, there will be new collaborations, which will make Thales's journey in search of the seven notes of the Song of the Spheres even more sensational. May Kroll does not see that ... otherwise, the Earth would be able to resist to his thirst for destruction?

If you have not read or heard The Song of the Spheres, both the book and the full album with the soundtrack are available for download at HI-BRAZIL site. The downloads are free and you can share all files with anyone you want. On the site, you can also print and assemble the album cover, if you desire. Just click on the icons.

Epílogo (Epilogue)

Wind, whirlwind, hurricane
Magma, lava, volcano's ashes
Rain, waterfall, floods
The whole Earth shakes in upheaval

Sugar cane, gold, mining, extraction
Dead forests, drought in whole ground
Will bring forth the nation's hunger
Disintegrating life in profusion

Sound the trumpets of emotion
Fear in sight, do risk your reason
Your way out is to open your heart
Make sound the notes of the song

Words come out of the mouth toward
Mob, uncontrollable confusion
And comes a woman over the dragon
Bringing the freedom in her hands

Below is the list of contributors to the Epilogue, which we appreciate immensely.

Aaron Campbell (USA)

Aaron Tait (USA)

Aaron Kraus (USA)

Langage Andy (USA)

angelicalbite (USA)

Arthur Soares (BRA)

Billy Bob Bain (USA)

Brian Pittman (USA)

Bruce McAdam (ISL)

Chris Flynn (USA)

David Táboas (SPA)

Eric Miraglia (USA)

Fabian Heusser (SWI)

Fredrik Lindström (SWE)
Fraktus (BEL)

Jackson Latka (USA)

Jeff Milner (CAN)

Jeremy Hall (USA)

Jim Weber (USA)

Johnny Ouyang (Taiwan)

John Watson (ENG)

Louis Vest (USA)

Marcus Böckmann (GER)

Matt (ENG)

Mor (ISR)

Neil Wykes (SCO)

Per (Color Line) (USA)

0P_timus (USA)

Pat Joyce (Great Britain)

Patrick徐同学☁ ☀ ☁ (JAP)

Patrick Lewis (USA)

Peter Alfred Hess (USA)

Peter Barvoets (ENG)

pinkishkaty (USA)

R. Jackson (USA)

Robert Stern (USA)

Ryan Glenn (CAN)

Ryan O'Hara (USA)

Ryan Vettese (CAN)

Sacred Destinations (USA)

sageori (KOR)

sfmine79 (TAI)

Cobucci Stefano (ITA)

Tim Reid (USA)

Tor Even Mathisen (NOR)

turbo.beagle (USA)

Tyler Karaszewski (USA)

USFS Region (USA)

Wayne MacPhail (CAN)

yellowcloud (GER)

Zascod (USA)

License for videos:

License for the audio:

Epílogo (Epilogue): The new HI-BRAZIL single will be released in a few days

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:41:00 +0000

This picture, by Tor Even Mathiessen, was published under a Creative Commons license

The Earth's climate is changing. Our impact on the environment is indisputable: global warming and global dimming, Codex Alimentarius, genetic manipulation, genocide. Kroll, the terrible monster of silence, will be victorious in his mission to convince humans to silence the Song of the Spheres? To destroy all forms of life on the planet? Thales will be able to find the seven notes of the song? Will he be able to make it sound again, reversing the evil that Kroll spread over this world? Four notes have been found. Other three are still missing. Thales does not think about quitting, but he does not know the adventures that await him in the rescue of the remaining notes will be even more dangerous ...

The second volume of The Song of the Spheres - Urda, the elder from Sands of Time is already being realized by the staff of HI-BRAZIL, as well as the soundtrack. The first part of the epic, The Bard and the Ice Queen is available for download at the site of the trio, who currently works at a special surprise in celebration of the Spring/Autumn Equinox. This is Epílogo (Epilogue), the first single from The Song of the Spheres. The video, with 5 minutes, includes excerpts from films produced by artists around the world, who kindly gave their works to the collective collaboration, under Creative Commons licenses. Stay tuned, because in a few days we will post here on the blog a link to Epílogo (Epilogue).

HI-BRAZIL music videos: 15.000 views on Youtube

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:49:00 +0000

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Hi, pals! It's a pleasure to announce that HI-BRAZIL videos on Youtube are reaching the mark of 15.000 views. Let's do the Samba!, the first hit of the trio's debut album, was watched by more of 6.500 Youtubers. Released in November 2007, the video, directed by the creative staff of 666 rmx, is an anathema to the abundant fertility of nature. Mainly in Brazilian land - where, according to the registrar Pero Vaz de Caminha, who sent the letter to the king of Portugal announced the discovery of Brazil in 1500 -, "planting here, everything flows". The digital album is also a critical to the civilization in which the colonizer, believing in the illusion of having spaces of ground on Earth, dominates in a predatory way those who were in that place first. And, just like the nature around, assimilate its culture and trivializes it, until the colonized ones will admire only another culture that, until then, seemed to be alien for them.

"The music was composed in 2004," explains Mauricio Businari, from HI-BRAZIL. "I used GarageBand on my G3. ... A blue dalmation... I was pissed of at that moment of my life, very shocked by the course of world politics and its consequences on Brazil. At the same time, following a dive in search of true inner stimuli leaving my soul "connected." It was a movement in and out, almost at the same time. The time interval between them was very short".

Hence came the idea of producing an album that was a criticism of the colonial system imposed to the "Third World" nations by "the First World" ones. The album would receive the title "1822", the year of the independence of Brazil, and would be launched under the nickname of DOT, a music research project that was developed with Mauricio's partner, André Luiz Salibi. The work, however, would be postponed until 2007 when, after a strong flu that left Mauricio very sick, he decided it was time to release emotions and reduce the difference between internal and external pressures of himself. "When Gargântula was recorded, in June of 2007, was winter in my country. I was in so much fever, and the beats resound in my head and I felt more and more confident, until the words started to jump out of my throat like little spiders, you know? And, from that point, I knew what I had to do. In August, the album was ready".

The idea to launch the debut album via Creative Commons came after Businari's experimental work on CC Mixter, a portal designed for a community interested in exchanging musical sounds. And creating new music with banks of sounds exchanged between users. "Months before, I was finishing a remix for Natchoongi, which participated in the Salman Ahmad remixes contest. In that site, all the work was registered with Creative Commons licenses. And then I began to ask one thousand things to Google and the opportunity was lit like a lamp. In less than six months, the music Gargântula has been downloaded more than six thousand times. Right now, we have ten thousand downloads of that song. The staff of Nine Inch Nails, for example, was only doing it this year ...", remember the musician.

Triangle

With the arrival of Guacymar Mazzariello, the duo HI-BRAZIL, became a triangle. And the chance came for enchant the guys 666rmx to take care of all HI-BRAZIL video production. For the joy of the trio, the nice guys of 666rmx accepted the challenge. "I watched the first video produced by HI-BRAZIL for the tune Gargântula. When I saw that sea lion dancing, the Betty Boop character, and the story being retelled, reissued in pieces to be transformed in another statment, the arrangement, the voice of Businari, I said: Stop editing right now. This work is done, there is no more to do. We have to release it! From that moment on, I was becoming a member of HI-BRAZIL, and started to discuss ideas about the production of Let's do the Samba! video".

Salibi tells that the whole creative process around the video was based on randomness. As a storm of ideas, words were introduced to Google in search of the images that best represented them. "For two or three days, we keep searching and saving images collected in the net. It was very funny, because we have being used Cool Iris, a plugin for browsers, which is an image viewer, to search pictures in a random way. We found many things! And the puzzle get solved", he says.

All images, without exception, received small "touches" of HI-BRAZIL visual arts, led by André and Guacymar. As the very first video, starred by Betty Boop (Gargântula), in Let's do the Samba!, the characters sometimes dance in still images, in extracts of old films, and in Flash animations made by 666rmx. The comcept parameters followed the techniques of collage and animation for web. There is none central character in this story told in this unusual way, where all characters have their identity preserved with the use of eye stripes. On a planet called Earth, the ship of HI-BRAZIL is fuming, throwing bananas over human heads.

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda, whose centenary of birth is celebrated this year, is on Let's do The Samba! video, appearing as some kind of "guest artistst". A HI-BRAZIL's tribute to the diva that, according to some musical historians, would have created the Tropicalism, an important brazilian musical movement. "This is our tribute to her. On our site, there is a release in the form of a story that better explains her involvement in the plot," warns Businari. "His final appearance is surprising and show how we feel about her, and her contribution to our culture and our expression of art".

Want to know more about this and other albums of the HI-BRAZIL? Visit the website. Downloads are free.

http://homepage.mac.com/hibrazil

The bard is born...

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:01:00 +0000

According to the old traditions, the bard will always be reborn on Earth when it needs balance. Through music and enchantment, he evokes ancient powers capable of restorig the Nature. Legendary prophecies say that he will reappear in times of big disasters and great confusion. Then, he will count with an harp whose strings are made of light. With this magical instrument, the bard will make sound the Song of the Spheres. At the gleam of the Sun's Summer/Winter Solstice of 2008, the bard had born again. The human kind will have another chance to defend Gaia, the Earth...The Great Mother of us all!

The old ways are returning...

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:16:00 +0000

The old ways are returning. The icy southern wind, that blows across the Earth, are bringing the scent of inevitable changes. You can feel it penetrates, through your nose, into the flesh and bones, up to the depths of your blood. The bard was warned. He is awakening to make his harp sound the music capable to enter into the hardened heart of men. Now is Gaea who calls. And he will do anything, to find, set free and make sound the notes of the Song of the Spheres. He knows that this is the only way to prevent Kroll, master of illusion, from leading humankind toward total annihilation. For that the old ways are returning. It's time to get ready ... and open up our hearts for the changes! Soon ... in the next solstice of summer / winter, we'll release the first volume of The Song of the Spheres: The Bard and the Queen of Ice ...

The first volume of the story is going through the last review. The soundtrack, composed by HI-BRAZIL, is already finished. Appearing entirely in the digital environment, the album presents a new interpretation of classic elements, including philharmonic instruments such as strings, winds, horns and percussion, plus a choir of 24 singers, gently mixed with digital samples and electronic beats. The process of mastering took three months to get done. The whole work started at the end of 2005, with the first drafts of the text. The songs were composed from 2006/8. The 14 tracks of the album were chosen, among more than 30. They reveal the emotional tone captured from certain moments of the story. The work is being released under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can download, share content and even collaborate with us. If you want to know how, send us an email: hibrazil@mac.com.

The Song of the Spheres

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:08:00 +0000

Good morning! Now that a new Spring is coming rainy and freezing here, at South Hemisphere, we have the pleasure to announce HI-BRAZIL is working at a new musical and literary epic, called A Canção das Esferas (Song of the Spheres is the english title suggested...). The first volume of the story will be released soon, and it tells about a boy, a harp, his love for the Earth and his courage to change the world. HI-BRAZIL is finishing the mastering of the first album, that will be released together with the book.

"Andre and I started to write the book and the tunes of the soundtrack about three years ago", explains Mauricio, from HI-BRAZIL. "But in an organic way, you know? Sometimes the story appeared first, sometimes the melodies of the tunes. Like an incredible puzzle of literary phrases and musical notes. And only now we could fix all the pieces of this first volume. And we are preparing the enchantment that will bring this magic to you".

The first volume of this saga - The Bard and the Lady of Ice, features our hero, Thales ,a 12 years old boy, and his mission to find and make sound seven special notes of this ethereal song, that are hidden in seven different places of the planet, protected by seven powerful guardians. This is the only way to stop Kroll, the terrible Monster of Silence, that is convincing humanity, through the art of illusion, that the music of whole Nature must be silenced until the total emptiness. What means the end for all living beings, including humans. For this challenge, he counts with the help of fantastic beings and good new friends, that will teach him about Nature and its mysteries.

"For many centuries we were conditioned to live out of Nature, although we are indissoluble part of it. Thales is an urban boy, like millions of others, that are somewhere, around the globe, living in little apartments, going to school, doing sports, playing guitar... a typical child that you and I were too, in some point of our lives, with all that curiosity, intuition and sincerity. A moment in your life when your neurons can act more on the right side of the brain, giving you a lack of extra creative power...But, with the time, tutored by the modern educational systems, we learnt that we have to stop dreaming, we have to be put in some place that others choose for us, and then work for them and make money to pay taxes. So, I could tell you that I believe humans are forgetting this wonderful capacity of being natural. But, in some way, it's still there inside...like the notes of the Song of the Spheres".

Collaborations

A Canção das Esferas will be released under a Creative Commons license, what means you'll can read, listen, discuss, borough, offer as a gift for your beloved ones, or everything that don't include profit on it. The collaborative spirit surrounds the intention of this piece and the list of collaborators is growing.

Stay tuned! Soon we'll post fresh news about this project.

A happy Spring for the "Southers" and a beautiful Autumn for the "Northers"...

Mukha

noreply@blogger.com (The Hi-Brazilian Blogger) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:38:00 +0000

While the Winter is runing high & dry down here at South Atlantic, HI-BRAZIL and 666rmx guys get pleased with their last neoneural videomusical work. The word Mukha has its origin in the Sanskrit language. It means, accord to The Theosophical Glossary, written by Helena P. Blavatsky, mouth, face; voice, sound; direction; principle; way...

There's an old lady that lives with her daughter in a penthouse that overlooks the bay of a very fastidious town somewhere down the atlantic ocean.

Even in that grey rainy day she decides to put some sparkle in their lives taking a warm cup of coffee at the mall that stands just across the street. Nothing will interfere with her strong desire of exposing herself wearing those white and shining pair of shoes made to be just like the originals - italian made.

Her daughter, bored with herself and everything else, accepts the invitation. She wonders if the owner of the jewelry will finally pay attention on her new pair of boobs. So, despite of the rain and the cold outside, she decides to wear a minimal top over them.
Some minutes later they are all dressed up and ready to go off. They get all the windows and curtains closed, remote controlled obviously, before they take the elevator down to the basement.

Once they reach the floor, they walk talkative around those cars, all of them resembling to each other, and go straight to their huge and comfortable S.U.V.. The old lady starts the engine, shifts to "D" selection, then head to the exit.

Outside the heavy rain and the strong winds make the street a wild place to be. Her daughter lights a cigarrette while they drive safe and dry to the other side. Three minutes later they are parking into that huge mall, absolutely free of humidity on their moussed hair.

One more time, they think that they had deceived Nature...

The coffee is served. The old lady takes a sip, she's so delighted with that exotic taste...While her daughter keep looking at the high ceiling where the rain drops ooze against the glass panels of that modern building.