| The double CD Mehinaku, “Messages from Amazon” presents the music of the most isolated native nation of Xingu, showing their songs and melodies, all related to the universe that surrounds them. Nature, animals, spirits, festivals, rituals, leisure – everything is represented or accompanied by music.
The album is part of a multimedia project released to establish and maintain partnerships to make the Latin-American culture better known around the world. The project was developed to show the Mehinaku community isolation. These natives have always lived in the same region and ended up being “embraced” by the Xingu Park, which was built up around them.
All the sounds were collected from the community’s daily life.
Unique and original, the songs reproduce nature sounds and compositions of the Amazon forest peoples. The main instruments used are flutes of different kinds. The Mehinaku also use percussion instruments – small globelike metal bells filled with seeds or iron pieces tied around their ankles.
Mehinaku songs are of varied types and forms. The music/fusion tracks try to express this sound universe to the utmost. Groups of singing women, men, girls, solo singing, flutes played solo or in groups and different sound universes - like the traditional boys’ bathing in the morning - are all part of this wonderful and cultural CD. |
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