![]() ![]() ![]() To this day, the Afro–Brazilian inheritance is what is most distinctive about Salvador’s art, food and social life. The forebears of a substantial part of Salvador’s present–day population arrived here in chains and lived out the rest of their lives as commodities. ![]() The colonial economic complex on which the city’s architecture is based wrenched hundreds of thousands of free people away from West Africa to work as slaves on the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo, the vast backlands of Brazil. The billowing clouds that hang almost perennially above its large bay could be the clouds of history, brooding over a city that has seen all the shades of human life. And in the starkness of its contrasts – even the half–notes of foreboding and sadness within the melody of joy and celebration – the episode was pure Salvador. Live music doesn’t get much better than this: a small golden bowl of music, warmth, light and boisterous spirits on a windy night, with the black sea and sky all around. ![]()
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