Once upon a time, a few months ago indeed, Brenda, RamZ and Antonis met at Mathew’ s residency. Its officially called the Lakkos Residency. Lots of artists come to Lakkos. Some collaborate. For no reason. For the shake of art, you could say.

RamZ is a French-Tunisian artist not in an urgency to leave the island. Brenda was raised in north Brazil, now residing in the suburbs of Paris playing the vibraphone, while Antonis shares his time between teaching and writing.

One night the three of us had a small party while listening to Youtube. We thought of making it a bit challenging, so we decided that each song had to be from a different country. We ended up creating a playlist of songs from 58 different ones. The next day the idea occurred to attempt do something with the playlist. That’s how BRA58 emerged. Antonis would write, Brenda compose the music and RamZ create the visual part.

We were all engaged in our own stuff, so we though there had to be a deadline if we were to make something out of the idea. 58 were the songs, 58 the days we gave ourselves to work on BRA58.

In the beginning I (Antonis) thought about writing 58 postcards from the countries in the playlist. I wasn’t really in the mood. The second lockdown had just started in Greece, so I ended up writing about the confinement without even realising it at the moment. 580 words. Brenda took over with her 5 min and 8 sec original music (do not forget to hit play after The trip to fully enjoy the project!) and RamZ finished it off with his 8 paintings, most of them painted during the lockdown. The project wouldn’t look the way it does, if Piperi didn’t take on the difficult task of putting it together. We are grateful! You are all welcome to enjoy.

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