Groundation

Have you ever experienced a collective heartbeat?

In the Rastafari tradition, everything begins with the drum. During a groundation, people gather around the Nyabinghi drums. The rhythm becomes the heartbeat of humanity, the earth and all living things. That same heartbeat still echoes through reggae and can now be heard pulsating at Korzo during a collective sonic experience: I&I Groundation.

For Here We Live and Now: I&I, three instrumentalists bring this all-encompassing primal beat into the present. Through sound and rhythm, you move from ‘you and me’ towards I&I.

• João Brito, from Portugal, takes percussion beyond music: sound, movement and space come together to tell a single story.

• Dizzi Geetha, a maker and ceremonial facilitator from Sri Lanka, explores new roots through sound and uses soundscapes to find a way back to nature.

• Phantom Wizard, a producer and multi-instrumentalist with Surinamese roots, breaks boundaries by blending jazz, hip-hop, electronic music and Afrofuturism.

This is a musical ritual that makes your heart beat faster. Until you can no longer tell where your heartbeat ends and someone else’s begins.