Massive Attack have announced a show in São Paulo in partnership with Indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
Headlining the Espaco Unimed arena event on 13th November, the pioneering UK group will perform alongside CAVALERA, aka Iggor and Max Cavalera of Sepultura. The Brazilian metal titans will perform their classic 1993 ‘Chaos AD’ album in full.
The show will take place during the COP30 International Climate Change Summit in Brazil’s Amazonian region of Belém. Massive Attack and Cavalera have staged the event “in direct coordination” with Indigenous groups, in support of their urgent calls for action.
The artists will use the event to “support, platform & give full voice to the efforts of the Indigenous people of Brazil and the Amazon G9 (the Indigenous organisations from nine Amazonian countries) to achieve climate justice, and immediate recognition and protection of indigenous lands”.
Read their list of demands here and pick up tickets to the event — available from tomorrow (16th September) at 12:00 BRT/ 16:00 BST — here.
“We’re honoured to collaborate with Iggor & Max in support of the extraordinary integrity and vital role of the indigenous people of Brazil and the wider Amazon region,” said Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja. “This is more than a passing of the mic. It’s an opportunity to listen to the knowledge, moral authority and wisdom of the indigenous alliances and help ensure they are heard in the negotiation rooms of COP30. We’ve never needed their presence within that distorted political space as much as we do right now”.
“In times when polarisation is so present, when people feel divided and distracted, we are honoured to join forces with Massive Attack and the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and the Amazon to weave a narrative of positivity and change,” share CAVALERA in a statement. “We’re beyond excited to work alongside a band like Massive Attack and have been fans for many years. We have fostered a close relationship with the indigenous peoples and have worked alongside them for many years now. It is a privilege to share the stage with both of them.”
A statement from COIAB, APIB & G9 read: “We, Indigenous peoples, step onto the stage as if lighting an ancient fire in the heart of the night. Together with Massive Attack and Cavalera, we turn sound into uprising. Our voices — alive, ancestral, untamed — will cut through the air, cross every border, and unite peoples, from the Amazon to the Pacific. We are the roots that resist, the future that insists. We have never left. We are here to remind you: the Earth remembers. And through us, it demands — dismantle the machine that devours her. The answer is already here. It rises from the very ground we walk together. The Answer Is Us. All of us. And we will advance.”
In July, Massive Attack announced their decision to form a new alliance, alongside Kneecap, Brian Eno and others, for artists who’ve used their platform to “speak out against the genocide occurring there & the role of the uk government in facilitating it”.
Last month, the group called out the actions of Britain’s “ugly, unrecognisable government” following the widespread arrests at the Palestine Action demonstration in London on 9th August.
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