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TRIBU

David
Jesus
Alejandro
Gilberto
Ricardo
Agustín

The members of this TRIBE have exercised the patient profession of pioneers in various disciplines, among which are those of empirical and practical scholars of autochthonous music, organizers of political and popular song meetings, defenders of the human rights of Juventino Rosas. and raiders in the soundscapes of our territory. To formalize their adventures, they have studied Ethnomusicology at the National School of Music, a career that to date has not been legally recognized, which is why the TRIBE is outside the law as far as the professional aspect is concerned.

This detail has not been enough to stop them, and they are already seen attending indigenous music meetings, or playing at some popular revelry or inventing music for ethnographic films. This acetate remains as a testimony of so much transhumant activity.

This record was born from TRIBU’s relationship with the indigenous people of the country. through his personal relationship as well as the research work and study of the music of the different ethnic groups of Mexico. It is in fact a small tribute to the indigenous people who have allowed us to penetrate their human and sound world.

A SIDE

1.- TENTHS OF HEALING (TRIBU)
Song composed for the film BRUJOS Y CURANDEROS produced in the Audiovisual Ethnographic Archive of the I.N.G. on the subject of traditional medicine. The text was made using both the traditional form of verse in tenths. like the music used for it in the Papaloapan basin. The text is as follows:

You ask me what is better
if doctor or witchcraft,
sobador healer
spirit Or Homeopathy,

I felt that I was increasing
that evil that I had,
I believed that I was dying
a clean applied me,
so that my evil will take out
and then I went to the doctor
the best in the region
who sends me to his nurse,
as little as he pierced me
They ask me what is better?

It’s hard to choose
when one can choose
which specialist are you going to see,
if to witch or magician to go
sobador who is going to say?
yes to charlatanism,
or surgery treatment
oh who can predict
oh who can tell me
if doctor or witchcraft.

I don’t want anything from Budú
because my evil is another,
For now, a choto tea
that takes me bald,
and I do not decide cured,
how am i the payer
woe to the stinging evil eye
who of all charges less,
so we can visit soon
healer or sobador

I’m going for the white jumpsuit
to look for a good diablero,
let me get the bad omen
a black or white witch
but the evil I tear it off
I say goodbye for now
to the holy God I ask
so that no one gets sick,
and black cat amends
to spirit or homeopathy.

I don’t say goodbye by hand
so that it doesn’t get bad air,
and I can come to the dance,
the sucker is not in vain.

Chiquiador is always healthy,
the toloache is the worst.
A good steam bath
I advise you of everything,
grip always even
They ask me which is better.

2.- THE VIPER (TRIBU)
Recreational piece made from different aspects of the son, the national genre par excellence, with its characteristic biting sense.

Now I’m going to tell you
of a minted snake
what do they say comes that way
a little stuck

Chorus

It goes, it goes and it comes here
the mentioned snake biting from behind

It comes biting everyone
to all the thieves
be careful mate
don’t bite his heels

(Chorus)

They all feared him
sly officials
bankers, moneylenders
and spies ambassadors

(Chorus)

coming down slopes
and through canyons
running around toditita
that ball of coyones

(Chorus)

The whole town joins him
helping the snake
from every corner
from Monterrey to Puebla

(Chorus)

They know the snake
in all nations
it is the minted snake
that makes the revolutions

(Chorus)

3.- USILEÑA ddp (TRIBU)
Song alluding to the Chinanteco town of Usila in the State of Oaxaca. In this interpretation. La Tribu takes the melody of the original song, adding various aspects of local music and popular music in general, to instrument this son itsmeño.

4.- AL CENTRO DE LA SOLEDAD (TRIBU)
The meaning of this piece evokes the solitude of the mountain, the sierra, the jungle, and of man even in the middle of a big city: it is somehow the solitude of the Indian.

In addition to various Western instruments, some tenabaris and a Tarahumara drum are used.

B SIDE 

1.- TIME MAIL (TRIBU)
The net of this song is that it was born without limitations of instruments or genres, as a musical narration about the country’s history and about the instrumental evolution of popular music. It is a mosaic of diverse cultural aspects that swarm in the social amalgamation of our world, and that was inspired by the Dance of “Coreos” that was danced in Atempan, Puebla, until very recently. The following hallucinate contemplates, with singular emotion, the origin and destination of this with which I look for its sender in you:

The sound has traveled from a sidereal silence
until it penetrates the atmosphere to shape the earth
allied to inert elements
and the dreams of magical cultures
or the multitudes that expand to unite two worlds
with a wound in hysteria.

This journey continues from the conquest to the double kingdom
from the viceroyalty to the cosmic race
until their Broken Bells ring
to delimit two eras
and to give way to the dark guitar player
to the revelry or to create cold river BANDidos sounds
or the cake war
and today how until when?
The Empire Strikes Back

We only have to wonder
Where is Martin de Vega going?

And even think that a god can answer us
because the only thing we can be sure of
is that, on the side of the road
is waiting for an animal

Beware of the fourth little black
let’s dance this sonecito
but well settled black!

Where is Martin de Vega going?
God knows if he will return
on the side of the road
is waiting for an animal

Pray black!

Tribu: Alejandro Méndez, Jesús Herrera, Agustin Pimentel.

– In the recording process of this album, the following were integrated as part of the group: Gilberto Chávez, Ricardo Reinaga, David Méndez; In addition to having collaborated in the pigeon (very important) Carlos Muñoz, Gunthild Heidtman, Diego Herrera, Germán Herrera, Luis Resendiz, Rubén Villagrán.

COLLECTIVE CREATION

Recording engineer: Carlos Muñoz
Design: David Mendez
Photography: Oscar Paoloni
Texts: J. Manuel Pintado

SIDE A
1.- TENTHS OF HEALING
2.- THE SNAKE
3.- USILEÑA
4.- TO THE CENTER OF SOLITUDE

B SIDE
1.- WEATHER MAIL

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