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Xochimoki
11+ albums
World Musicfolknew agemexicomexican
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Xochimoki - celebrated American ethnomusicologist Jim Berenholtz and Aztec descendant / wisdom keeper Mazatl Galindo - traverse millenia with career compendium Temple Of The New Sun, an album recorded in New Mexico in the mid 1980’s but tracing a lineage back thousands of years. Xochimoki summon feathered gods and animal spirits. They incant mythological folktales of celestial glory and supernatural dread. Their songs are sung in Pre-Columbian Central and South American languages, including Nahuatl, Maya, Purepecha and Quechua. And much of their music was written at ancient ceremonial sites, in rituals and meditations, in communion with the spirits that rest there. There is an inherent sense of storytelling, of the peoples of the jungle and the earth living through this music. Xochimoki self-released two cassettes, soundtracked the Albuquerque Museum’s touring exhibition MAYA: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, and created several discs’ worth of further soundtrack music elsewhere before moving on to new and individual projects. Phantom Limb’s hand-curated reissue album The Temple Of The New Sun collects key works from their broad history, newly remastered and now available for the first time on vinyl. "These potent studies in historical recreation and indigenous transcendence conjure the ritual, mythical and spiritual...Precious and dreamlike." Songlines "Doomy leftfield new age experimentalism vibing at ruined temples and sacred sites." The Wire User-contributed te
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Temple Of The New Sun
Temple Of The New Sun: The Music of Xochimoki
Land of the Feathered Serpent
New Music Ancient Sources
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Land of the Feathered Serpent
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Flower Of The Ancient Ones
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Quetzal
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Quetzal-Music from the Heart o
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Haunted Castles (B-sides and remixes): EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIPTION COMPILATION
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Ghost Stories: EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIPTION COMPILATION
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Quetzal-Music from the Heart of Maya