Everything is everything

"I like the rhythm of the conversation in the original field recording so I have written a soundtrack piece to go with it. As it's based in Africa so I have used African drum sounds to create a sense of place. I have then overlayed various melody rhythms using instrument sounds that I felt matched the drums.

"I have also used processed samples from the original recording to add some emphasis in places. The title comes from something the woman in the recording said to the man in Portuguese."

Guinea-Bissau migration recording reimagined by Richard Watts.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration