NALEPPA, GÖTZ - POPOL VUH (CD)

"The sound composition "Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya" by Götz Naleppa is limited to the first part, "Book of Counsel", the story of creation, in which the cruel and cosmic comedy of creation can be experienced (text version Anja Gundelach). The text - in classical K'iché-Maya and in two contemporary Mayan languages (Tzeltal and Chol) - was partly recorded in temple sites in Chiapas with Mayan speakers and later supplemented by a German language layer (a Spanish language version was produced in parallel). The voices are orchestrated by Field Recordings from the Maya habitat, the rainforest, and by Jorge Reyes' improvisations on prehispanic instruments in the temple sites of the rainforest. Thus, after 500 years, the ritual conch shell horn resounds again in the temple district of Bonampak and the myth of the creation of the "People of Corn" in a burial chamber of Palenque. This sound work is dedicated to the struggle of the Mayan people for recognition of their dignity and cultural identity. " (label info)