This song begins in the memories of my youth, in the world of capoeira, in the bibliographies of folklorists and researchers about Brazilian culture and folk manifestations (some highly racist) that I found in public libraries and at my university (Nina Rodrigues, Câmara Cascudo, Edson Carneiro, Ney Lopes, Darcy Ribeiro). It took me decades to understand the real history of the "discovery" of Brazil. It was through the paths of capoeira and popular culture that I realized that "history deceives us" (Mestre Moraes), and upon moving to Europe and getting to know Portugal, I gained a better understanding of the pieces that shaped me as a Brazilian people. 

Kikola is a lexical photograph of this. A narrative from someone who was there. The silenced indigenous peoples mentioned as an allegorical detail, deserving of a commemorative day on the national calendar, with their caricatured symbols and folk legends. Africa, the mother, beginning, womb, nourishment, affection, memory, song, rocking cradle, the embrace of the collective unconscious. And Portugal, a father, but of the indoctrinators, absent and dominating, but the ones who tell the story because they have the power of rhetoric and resources. And thus, year after year, this was the narrative of a "discovery." 

Denounces the wrong narrative of colonization as discovery. Africa is the mother, beginning, womb, nutrition, affection, memory, song, lullaby swing, and Portugal is the violent, indoctrinating, absent father, who tells the wrong story because he has the power of rhetoric and resources. 

 Jabu Morales: percussion, voice 

Salvador Sobral: voice 

Alberto Becucci: accordion, synths, piano 

Ricardo Quinteira: guitars, tres cubano, voice 

Francesco Valente: bass 

Timoteo Grignani: percussion, voice 

Walter Martins: percussion, drum pads, voice 

Paulo Flores: voice 

Diogo Duque: brass arrangement and trumpet Brass ensemble 

Micael Pereira: trumpet J

unior Maceió: tenor sax, soprano sax 

Ruben da Luz: Trombone 

Dancers: Maria Antunes & Nuno Varela 

Director and art director: Tony Cassanelli 

Cinematography & editor: Thiago Maceno