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Huni Kuin
Album available here: Bandcamp
The Huni Kuin, also known as the Kaxinawá, are an ethnic group of indigenous tribal natives who are settled on the Brazilian/Peruvian border in the state of Acre, in the north-western part of Brazil.
Through their cosmology, customs, traditional rituals and language the Huni Kuin are maintaining the inseparable link between the forest as a whole.
This album presents traditional and modern songs of the Huni Kuin peoples, sung by Txana Inkakuru Huni Kuin. Recorded live in traditional ceremonies, deep in the Amazon rainforest.
These hypnotic invocations call upon the spirits of our ancestors, and the spirits of plants and animals in the forest. To help us connect with them, to help us connect with our minds, with our bodies, and with our spirit.
50% of profits from this album to Txana Inkakuru Huni Kuin directly.
Recorded by: Midori Takata, Produced by Herwig Maurer
xi Yawanawa Festival
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Live recordings of the Yawanawa tribe's traditional sacred songs. The recordings took place during the XI Yawanawa Festival.
During the yearly festival, deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, the Yawanawa open their doors to foreign visitors and gather for five days in celebration of their freedom; to sing to the spirit and cultural ancestry of their people.
Theirs is a story of great sorrow, but also of resistance, empowerment and of a cultural renaissance that shines bright above the threats their people have faced by colonization, evangelism and the modern world.
For days and nights the Yawanawa dance and sing, recalling the ways of their elders and partaking in their once forbid plant medicine rituals. They gather around the fire to call upon the wisdom of their elders, of Uni/Ayahuasca, their most sacred plant medicine, and of Rume snuff made of tobacco and ashes collected from the bark of the Tsunu trees.
Recorded by: Midori Takata, Produced by Herwig Maurer