Orquestra Armorial has been played on NTS shows including Supporter Radio: Your Specialist Subject II, with Sem Lei Nem Rei — II (Aboio) first played on 29 April 2026.

The Armorial Movement arose under the inspiration and direction of the writer Ariano Suassuna, with the collaboration of a group of artists and writers from the Northeast region of Brazil.

The movement was officially launched in Recife on 18 October 1970, with a performance from the Orquestra Armorial and a visual art exhibition in the São Pedro plaza in the centre of the city.

Its objective was to give value to popular culture of the Brazilian Northeast, intending to create a type of erudite Brazilian art rooted in the country’s popular culture.

According to Suassuna, as “armorial” is the conjunction of insignias, coats-of-arms, standards and flags of a people, heraldry is a much more popular art than anything else. In this way, the adopted name represented the desire to connect with these Brazilian cultural heraldic roots.