Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Original choreography performed by Paty Lorena Solórzano
Directed by Jude Goergen
Lighting by Joseph Mietus
Hair and Makeup by Estela Rojas
A message from Dos Santos:
"The hands of others touch us every day. Yet when that stops, it feels as if intimacy is disrupted or eclipsed… like when music goes silent or when streets become empty. We need the sun, we need art, and we need touch in order to grow, to flourish, to feel…
Intimacy has always been at stake in the borderless world of Dos Santos’ music. And in that sonic universe, freedom dreams and dances are not fleeting desires, but marvelous intimacies made real through congregation.
“Manos Ajenas (touch you every day)” was written and recorded in the tumultuous summer of 2017—a time of hate rallies in the United States, disaster capitalism in Puerto Rico, and the carceral rumblings of migrant detention along the Mexican border. Intimacy was at stake at that moment too, and its urgent poetry surfaced in “Manos Ajenas”—an ode to the liberatory freedom of touch and movement, of those things that many would seek to sever and deny.
In the era of COVID-19, the world finds itself deep in the bowels of a late capitalist pandemic nightmare, where touch and congregation are forbidden… Yet, their denial—in a seemingly dystopian plot twist—is an expression of care…
In that spirit, “Manos Ajenas” is a meditation on the hands that figuratively and literally touch us every day—from the loving embrace of those closest to us, to the labor of unknown hands that work to nourish us. In a time when we feel as if the walls are closing in, Dos Santos asks us to consider the people that continue to touch us in ways unseen in a moment when many are experiencing profound solitude. And as our minds rest in the calming eye of that meditation, Dos Santos also invite us to dance, to move, to listen, and to enjoy like freedom dreamers ready to take on a technicolor world that exists beyond that dream.
“Manos Ajenas (touch you every day)” is an anthem of art and love in the time of corona, because we all need to keep living and we all need to keep nourishing our deep connections with one another. Paz."
from Dos Santos' 2018 LP "Logos"
available on International Anthem Recording Co.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/logos
Original choreography performed by Paty Lorena Solórzano
Directed by Jude Goergen
Lighting by Joseph Mietus
Hair and Makeup by Estela Rojas
A message from Dos Santos:
"The hands of others touch us every day. Yet when that stops, it feels as if intimacy is disrupted or eclipsed… like when music goes silent or when streets become empty. We need the sun, we need art, and we need touch in order to grow, to flourish, to feel…
Intimacy has always been at stake in the borderless world of Dos Santos’ music. And in that sonic universe, freedom dreams and dances are not fleeting desires, but marvelous intimacies made real through congregation.
“Manos Ajenas (touch you every day)” was written and recorded in the tumultuous summer of 2017—a time of hate rallies in the United States, disaster capitalism in Puerto Rico, and the carceral rumblings of migrant detention along the Mexican border. Intimacy was at stake at that moment too, and its urgent poetry surfaced in “Manos Ajenas”—an ode to the liberatory freedom of touch and movement, of those things that many would seek to sever and deny.
In the era of COVID-19, the world finds itself deep in the bowels of a late capitalist pandemic nightmare, where touch and congregation are forbidden… Yet, their denial—in a seemingly dystopian plot twist—is an expression of care…
In that spirit, “Manos Ajenas” is a meditation on the hands that figuratively and literally touch us every day—from the loving embrace of those closest to us, to the labor of unknown hands that work to nourish us. In a time when we feel as if the walls are closing in, Dos Santos asks us to consider the people that continue to touch us in ways unseen in a moment when many are experiencing profound solitude. And as our minds rest in the calming eye of that meditation, Dos Santos also invite us to dance, to move, to listen, and to enjoy like freedom dreamers ready to take on a technicolor world that exists beyond that dream.
“Manos Ajenas (touch you every day)” is an anthem of art and love in the time of corona, because we all need to keep living and we all need to keep nourishing our deep connections with one another. Paz."
from Dos Santos' 2018 LP "Logos"
available on International Anthem Recording Co.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/logos
![Ahleuchatistas - Erosion [Official Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W-lEMrcElYA/mqdefault.jpg "Ahleuchatistas - Erosion [Official Video]
Erosion from Ahleuchatistas 2015 International Anthem release, Arrebato.
Directed, Shot and Edited by Sam Klickner October 2015 in Portland, Oregon.
Organic Liquid Effects Shot and Composited by Dustin Houston.
Featuring Andrew Auble.
Music composed and performed by Aheluchatistas: Ryan Oslance and Shane Parish.
IARC0006 available on Vinyl LP, CD, and digital download.
www.intlanthem.com")
![Carlos Niño & Friends - Salon Winds [film by Cara Stricker]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wo98AKlQN1I/mqdefault.jpg "Carlos Niño & Friends - Salon Winds [film by Cara Stricker]
from the Carlos Niño & Friends album More Energy Fields, Current
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-energy-fields-current
Please be aware strobe effect is used in this film around the 5:15 mark.
Throughout 2020, I was involved in Presenting Live Concerts for small Audiences, in the Backyards of Private Residences, and in a few Courtyards. We created spaces where people could be themselves, with as much openness as they wanted, celebrating togetherness and creativity. Salon Winds (with Jamire Williams on Drums, Jamael Dean on Keys, Aaron Shaw on Saxophone and Flute, Nate Mercereau on Guitar Synth, and me on Percussion) is a fully improvised journey, a collective spontaneous composition that was recorded by Jason Lader at one of these concerts. One in Malibu, at Mike D and Tamra Daviss, that Travis Lett made delicious food during, on Wednesday, August 26th. It was at this event that I first met Director Cara Stricker who would later agree to make this Film. I remember getting the Audio Recording after we played, and Mixing this piece late that same Night . . . - Carlos Niño, Woodland Hills, California , April 2021.
more about filmmaker Cara Stricker:
http://www.carastricker.com/")
![jaimie branch - the mountain [official video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Noo8_VjgxE/mqdefault.jpg "jaimie branch - the mountain [official video]
Directed + Edited by Kim Alpert.
Cinematography by Andrew Esola.
Concert footage courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
the mountain composed by Curt Kirkwood (originally released by The Meat Puppets as “Comin’ Down”); performed by Jason Ajemian (double bass, voice) and jaimie branch (voice, trumpet)
from Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)):
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/fly-or-die-fly-or-die-fly-or-die-world-war")
