Michael
Lovely concept compilation. Just heard the Komodo Kolektiv tune featured on the Optimo radio show. Quality!
Favorite track: Vision Of The Dead.
Mictlán II es un álbum conceptual donde siete artistas que elegimos crearon su interpretación del viaje al inframundo según la mitología y cosmovisión prehispánica de los Aztecas.
Mictlán es el inframundo y parte del universo vertical, creado por la pareja de dioses soberanos de los muertos. Sus nueve niveles representan el viaje del Dios Tonatiuh, quien, al morir en el poniente, ingresa a su fase de oscuridad realizando un viaje al Mictlán, donde están las entrañas de la tierra, lugar donde se reposa y se gestan los componentes que han de nacer renovados para posarse nuevamente sobre la tierra.
Estas dos fases, luz y oscuridad, se asocian directamente con los conceptos de vida y muerte. En un sentido simbólico, artístico y filosófico nuestra vida cobra la misma suerte: emergemos desde el interior del vientre para ver la luz, forjamos nuestra vida para alcanzar el máximo desarrollo haciendo florecer nuestro corazón y finalmente nuestra vida se apaga, y justo ahí comienza un viaje al Mictlán donde nuestro cuerpo será depositado al interior de la tierra.
Tepeme Monamictlán es el segundo de los nueve niveles y residencia de Tepeyóllotl (dios de las montañas, los ecos y el jaguar). Esta es la región donde dos montañas chocan, produciendo ecos como señal a los muertos para cruzar al siguiente nivel.
Colaboraciones: YNV, Komodo Kolektif, Isaac Soto, Andi Otto, Spaniol, Tai Rona, Decha.
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Following our tradition, Mictlán II is a concept album in which seven artists we selected created their interpretation of the journey to the underworld according to the pre-Hispanic mythology and cosmovision of the Aztecs.
Mictlán is the underworld and part of the vertical universe, created by the pair of sovereign Gods of the Dead. Its nine levels represent the journey of the God Tonatiuh, who, upon dying in the west, enters his phase of darkness, making a trip to Mictlán, where the entrails of the Earth are, a place of rest and gestation of components that are to be born renewed to land again on Earth.
These two phases, light and darkness, are directly associated with the concepts of life and death. In a symbolic, artistic and philosophical sense, our life takes on the same fate: we emerge from inside the womb to see the light, we forge our lives to reach the maximum development making our hearts flourish and finally our life dies down, and right there begins a trip to Mictlán where our body will be deposited inside the Earth.
Tepeme Monamictlán is the second of the nine levels and residence of Tepeyóllotl (god of the mountains, the echoes and the jaguar). This is the region where two mountains collide, producing echoes as a signal to the dead to cross to the next level.
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released December 16, 2021
Collaborations: YNV, Komodo Kolektif, Isaac Soto, Andi Otto, Spaniol, Tai Rona, Decha.
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