Sharing the Universe.

Tribu
~ eclectic music ~

Do not grieve, musician poet, in the humble corner where you think you are poor, and in abandonment of the dark nights, since you have your love and your song.
Shams Al-Din Muhmmad (Hafız)
Poet of ancient Persia

Firm is my heart: I want to sing and play. Wake up, my soul, wake up psaltery and zither. I want to wake up the dawn.
Book of psalms (psalm 108).
Hebrew culture.

I would like to make war odes but only love resounds in my seven-stringed lyre.
Anacreon.
Ancient Greek poet.

We lost track of time. I don’t remember how long we were dancing drenched in light. It could have been a few minutes, a few days, a few months…
Avame Nara, Japanese.

The music and the song come from the creator god of the universe and unify all creation.
Samma Veda. Hindu holy book.

The god of the night gave the blue deer maračame cedar wood to mix with the tu’kariwiki bird and from the mix came the rawere (violin) then he mixed the cedar with the kúkámueri bird and he had the canari (guitar). And so they had what to accompany the sacred songs of tradition, when the sun finally shone.
Wisrrarica culture

Shall I go like the flowers that perished?
Will nothing be left of my name?
Nothing of my fame here on earth?
At least my flowers at least my songs!
Tecayehuatzin (Aztec poet)

When I die
bury me under the big trees
shadows of the market
I want to hear about my drums playing.
I want to feel the feet of those who dance.
Griot bakuba from central Congo.

One by one I gather your songs,
which jades I am setting them;
I make a necklace with them
the gold of their beads is resistant.
Adorn yourself with them!
They are your wealth in the region of flowers…
They are your wealth here on earth.
Mexican songs.

“SHARING THE UNIVERSE”

This work carried out on the occasion of the proximity of the anniversary and not necessarily the celebration of the 500 years of the Europe-America meeting, serves TRIBU to demonstrate against the destruction and imposition of power of one human group over another, or of a culture over another, struggling for man to stop being “man’s wolf”, to make way for the utopia of the master Vasconcelos, the advent of “La Raza Cósmica”. Well, it was not Columbus who discovered America, nor Américo Vespucci, nor the Vikings. America was discovered by humanity some 30,000 years ago (according to scientists), when due to the need for survival and by order of their genetic messages the first men in constant migrations populated this continent. That is why the oldest cultures to settle on it earned the right to consider it their soil.

Realization.- This highly eclectic album materialized by interpreting an image of an ancient Mexican codex, the Fejérváry Mayer, which appears in the center of the cover. The four directions of the universe and their symbols manifested there were gaining sound form with musical elements from all over the world and from any era, to show that the human race is one and that the future belongs to it.

TRIBU 

Originally from the Federal District, the group currently lives in the community of Pozos, Gto., where the population has been actively integrated in its struggle for self-improvement and human promotion. Members of CADEMAC, founded and built “La Casa de la Toltequidad” in Pozos itself, where the “Fiesta de la Toltequidad” is held annually, a cultural event of great importance in the region. Their work as transhumant musicians has taken them practically throughout the country, as well as Europe and several states of the American Union; and their curiosity and interest in the national culture, to delve into the differences in the different cultural areas of Mexico, mainly among the indigenous communities, from where they learned what they consider most important in their training as musicians; they also studied ethnomusicology at the National School of Music of the UNAM, Universidad Veracruzana.

Indiana University and others. Some of its members were responsible for developing the Department of Ethnomusicology in the INI Audiovisual Ethnographic Archive. Likewise, the study of archaeological sources and the construction of musical instruments has been of interest to him. Eventually they share these tasks with teaching through courses and seminars by institutions such as SEP, UNAM, CADEMAC and others.

As far as radio, cinema and television are concerned, their regular participation in programs is mentioned, as well as the musicalization of several works, and as actors in the Rafael Montero film “viajeros” produced by the UNAM This is the sixth full-length album duration.

TRIBU members and instruments that play on this album:

David Mendez Rojas; Marimba, tenor saxophone, big drum, clay drums, chékere, transverse flute, angklung, percussion pipes, chachayotes, Aztec ceremonial flutes, wind whistle, electric guitar, bagpipes, polyphonic synthesizer, voice.
Alejandro N. Mendez Rojas; Monophonic synth, polyphonic synth, big drum, cowbell, transverse flute, Tepehuan bow, banjo, sopranino flute, drum machine, angklung, tenabaris, electric guitar, tortoiseshell, flato forte, gorchan, voice.
Pablo Mendez Rojas; Eclectic drums (with drums from different sources), great drum, huehuetl, waterspout, metallophone, tenor flute, percussion tubes, chachayotes, wind whistle, various whistles, Japanese drums, Irish drum, voice.
Gilberto Chavez Espinoza; Marimba, alto saxophone, great drum, huehuetl, zither, castanets, bandolón 6°, angklung, percussion tubes, chachayotes, African drums, wind whistles, voice.
A. Agustin Pimentel Diaz; Clarinet, big drum, birimbao, electric bass, rattles, tambourine, shawm, angklung, tenabaris, wind whistle, recorder, moseño, voice.

A SIDE 

–Sharing the universe
–Grandpa Jerome
–Parsimony blue
–pudical catharsis
–Batracic

B SIDE

–Transparent sands
–Guinea Papua
–Ahuianime (happy)
–Tlalocan (paradise)
–Emerald green

Composition: Collective creation TRIBU (D.R.) 1989.
Recorded in Publiservicios
Recording engineers: Héctor Ramirez (Tato) and Jaime Baksht
Cover: Agustin Pimentel
Cover assembly; David Mendez.
Photography: Mayra Carmona.
Production: Modesto Lopez
TRIBE courtesy of CADEMAC

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