13 min
Music
Medicine Stream 12: Live Looping
One of the Medicine Stream sessions he broadcast from home, showing how a piece is layered up in real time.
About the artist
Poranguí
Poranguí was born in São José dos Campos, Brazil, to a Brazilian mother and a Chicano father, and grew up between the cultures of Brazil, Mexico and the southwestern United States. He lives in Sedona, Arizona.
He performs alone, building each piece from scratch on stage with looping equipment — world percussion, guitar, voice, didgeridoo and pre-Columbian flutes layered one over another until a single player sounds like an ensemble. He calls the result world soul music: songs and rhythms drawn from many cultures rather than from any single one. His albums include Ayahuasca (2016), the live album Poranguí (2019) and Beauty Way (2023), and he has recorded with Liquid Bloom, Rising Appalachia, Desert Dwellers, Dirtwire and Ayla Nereo, and played TEDx, SXSW, Lightning in a Bottle, Bali Spirit Festival, Boom and OZORA.
Alongside the music he works as a therapeutic bodyworker, drawing on an academic background in neuroscience and training as a licensed massage therapist. He has been a Teaching Artist for the Arizona Commission on the Arts since 2008.
“My art is that of holding sacred space. Whether we are dealing with the space between notes or the space between breaths, the healing power of my work happens when I get out of the way.”Poranguí
Upcoming events
Meet Poranguí in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
04NOV
Poranguí Live in London: Serve the Music World Tour
London, United Kingdom · Concert
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06NOV
Poranguí Live in Dublin: Serve the Music World Tour
Dublin, Ireland · Concert
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Show 12 past gatherings
01NOV
Poranguí: Music is Medicine Workshop, Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland · Workshop
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31OCT
Poranguí Live in Warsaw: Serve the Music World Tour
Warsaw, Poland · Concert
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28OCT
Poranguí: Music is Medicine Workshop, Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland · Workshop
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27OCT
Poranguí Live in Zurich: Serve the Music World Tour
Zurich, Switzerland · Concert
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25OCT
Music Is Medicine Workshop - Mallorca
Palma, Spain · Workshop
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23OCT
Poranguí Live in Palma: Serve the Music World Tour
Palma, Spain · Concert
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18OCT
Poranguí Live in Berlin: Serve the Music World Tour
Berlin, Germany · Concert
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17OCT
Poranguí: Music is Medicine Workshop, Berlin
Berlin, Germany · Workshop
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14OCT
Poranguí: Music is Medicine Workshop, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Workshop
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13OCT
Poranguí Live in Amsterdam: Serve the Music World Tour
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Concert
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10OCT
Poranguí: Music is Medicine Workshop, Tallinn
Tallinn, Estonia · Workshop
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09OCT
Poranguí Live in Tallinn: Serve the Music World Tour
Tallinn, Estonia · Concert
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Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this artist in their own words.
73 min
Interview
Sundance, Ceremony, and Truth
A long conversation with East Forest about ceremony, the Sundance, and what honesty costs a musician who works in those settings.
67 min
Music
Full Set at Sugarshack Sessions
An hour-long live set, built up layer by layer with loops, voice, charango, flutes and percussion.
Path
The wider context.
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