‘Malaca Malaca’ is the exclamation that opens the chorus of Fuasto’s ‘A Guerra é a Guerra’ which is a part of his wonderful 1982 album Por Este Rio Acima (Up this River). Fausto took as his source and point of departure for this work, the hyperbolic yet highly philosophical and critical autobiography of ” Fernão Mendes Pinto titled Peregrinação (Pilgrimage) of 1614. Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and adventurer who was stationed in Malacca in the 1530’s.
Malaca Malaca
A guerra é a guerra
No céu e na terra
Nos dentes a faca
Avanço e avanço
A guerra é a guerra
No céu e na terra
Balanço, balanço
Malacca Malacca
War is war
In heaven and on earth
Knife in teeth
On and on I go
War is war
In heaven and on earth
Swaying on and on
As part of my Koboi performances in Belem, Lisbon, I played an audio clip from this track on a megaphone. For more information please visit https://koboibalikkampung.wixsite.com/nuntengporta/description
https://www.jstor.org/stable/344173?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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