Maria Barnas - The Lost Park (Vinyl)

Maria Barnas
Peter Lunow
Nathalie Bruys

'The Lost Park' is a project including film, music and poetry by Maria Barnas
'I crossed the ocean to visit a park which is more fiction than reality. I lost grip of the facts trying to understand its history. The more I tried to describe and document it, the more diffuse the park's identity became. By now, the park must have disappeared from the earth's surface. Maria Barnas
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) turned out his first landscape designs in Recife, Brazil. Amongst these was 'Praça Euclides da Cunha' (1935), a park inspired by Euclides da Cunha's novel 'Rebellion in the Backlands' (1902). The novel describes the civil war (1893-1897) between the Republic and a group of some 30,000 monarchists who had settled in Canudos, their own community in the northeastern province of Bahia. The conflict came to a brutal end when a large army force killed most of its inhabitants. Canudos lies in an arid region where struggles against poverty and political corruption continue until today. For his park, based on 'Rebellion in the Backlands', Burle Marx used succulents and cacti from Bahia, bringing not only a dry and neglected area into the centre of Recife, but alsond traumatic history. The original plan for the park was not adhered to. Fruit trees appeared where Burle Marx had not imagined them. No original construction drawings of the park can be found. The reconstruction that took place in 2004 was not based on the original design, but on interpretations of a single sketch by Burle Marx (used on the front cover) and memories

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Music by Peter Lunow

1 The Lost Park 07:13
Piano: Peter Lunow
Guitar: Esther Steenbergen
Percussion: Philip ten Bosch
2 The Lost Park (Soundtrack) 04:46
Remix by Daniel van Hauten
Text: Maria Barnas
Translation and voice: Nanne Timmer


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Sound & Music by Nathalie Bruys

1 Concrete Jungle (The Lost Park remix) 03:52
Voices: Nanne Timmer & Maria Barnas
2 Mountain Top 01:32
3 Dusk 04:56 (The Lost Park remix)
Voice: Maria Barnas
4 Cactus Speech 02:55
Instrument:Cactus