The mediation of the 10-strings Brazilian guitar in between worlds: metaphor, analogical thinking and the permanence of the real

Traditionally, the ten-strings Brazilian guitarists can play a role of "sayers in between worlds". Partially rooted in their technical skills, partially rooted in the analogic thinking of the country people, they proceed to a multi-layered interpretation of the reality. In order to demonstrate such dynamics, we visited the album Esbrangente (2003), conceived by the folk musicians Roberto Correa, Badia Medeiros, Paulo Freire and, indirectly, by Manoel de Oliveira. Such a task is managed with the contributions of the philosopher like Edgar Morin (2015a, 2015b), the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2007, 2018) and the writer Guimaraes Rosa (1969, 2016). The study allows us to conclude that the poetic findings of Esbrangente rest on flashes of analogical thinking and refined musical technique and that the ten-strings Brazilian guitarists keep the poet's traits, whose wisdom allows them to cross the levels of the Sertao's reality.