" data-original-title="" title="">Joao Bosco's stunning "O Canto da Terra por um Fio" (The Corner of the Earth by a Thread) adds a global call for godly and human intervention to the season's more traditional holiday fare. The piece is the first single of a project to be released in mid-2024. The lyric speaks of a great river that sees its life hanging by a thread, that feels suffocation in its gigantic veins. The rain, wind, sun and spirits of the forest call the name of Omama, founding deity of the Yanomami.

Bosco wrote the song wordlessly at first, singing specific non-semantic syllables with no translation. He then stepped back to see what he had created, finding it to be a song that comes, as he put it, from the ground, from the earth, from sweat, from clay, from fauna and flora, from a people singing in praise of what will come. He identified the context as Afro-Brazilian rhythmically and harmonically and began to discuss it at length with his musical partners on the project, his son, philosopher-journalist and lyricist