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█ ARTIST: Jeremy Haladyna █
█ TITLE: Mayan Time, Mayan Tales █
█ LABEL: Innova █
█ GENRE: Classical █
█ BITRATE: 216kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 59min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-04-07 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. The Princess Of The 9 Cave I 4:15 █
█ 02. The Princess Of The 9 Cave II 3:04 █
█ 03. The Princess Of The 9 Cave III 5:27 █
█ 04. Yaxuun 7:42 █
█ 05. The Crystal Skull Of Lubaantun 9:57 █
█ 06. Xunaan Balam (Jaguar Queen) 8:02 █
█ 07. Tollan- I - Place Of The Reeds 8:23 █
█ 08. Xtaj (Lust Woman, Or, La Llorona) 12:14 █
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█ The best way to really LISTEN to the end of the Mayan Great Cycle is █
█ with this new innova release by Jeremy Haladyna: Mayan Time/Mayan █
█ Tales. On more than a third of this disk, sound bears direct witness to █
█ the Maya and their calendarsùMayan notions of time reborn as scales. █
█ And atop the scales, tales: of a crystal skull, a fearsome temptress, a █
█ still-living bird that saw Creation, and a princess who gave her soul to █
█ marimba music. Microtonalism comes to archaeology. █
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█ Here is a 2nd innova release exploring the peculiarly magical works of █
█ Santa Barbara-based Jeremy Haladyna, who in more than 25 years and nine █
█ visits to the Mayan region, has ventured ever more deeply into the █
█ mystery of Maya culture, resulting in his unique collection, THE MAYAN █
█ CYCLE. █
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█ Cast here in sound is the most famous of the crystal skulls, right █
█ alongside more human facesàthose of three important women of Maya lore █
█ and legend. The Princess of the 9 Cave (tracks 1-3) hearkens to the █
█ legend of a Mayan princess who died deep in a cave in Guatemala hiding █
█ from the conqueror Alvarado. In the collective mindset of the Quiche, █
█ her soul takes up new residence in the tree used to make marimbas. And █
█ so she speaks through all marimba music, emerging liberated from her █
█ cave, at the end of track three. █
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█ That moment of supreme royal sacrifice is joined to HaladynaÆs new ô2012 █
█ scale,ö which marks a yet more pivotal moment. In this new scale, █
█ outermost boundary notes represent (exactly, in mathematical terms) █
█ August 11, 3114 BCùwhen the Mayan calendar began, and December 21, 2012, █
█ when the current Great Cycle ends. And so, inside the cave with the █
█ Princess, we ôhearö the Great Cycle reverberate microtonally for the █
█ first time. █
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█ And who are those other Maya women? On the raunchier end there is Xtaj █
█ [Lust Woman], whom Mayanist Dennis Tedlock relates directly to the La █
█ Llorona [Weeping Woman] figure so feared through all of Latin America. █
█ This work for piano with inside effects, ceramics and processing is █
█ meant to frighten, since in the Quiche Maya world Xtaj stalks and kills █
█ young men. █
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█ Xunaan Balam [Jaguar Woman], is likewise invoked in her own track, but █
█ now on an occasion of great joy. As Jaguar Woman musters all the winds █
█ around her in sanctification of fruitful ground, she is a powerful █
█ witness to the fusion the Maya have made of their native heritage with █
█ Catholic tradition. █
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█ And the tales are not finishedùthere is music for Yaxuun, the ôlovely █
█ cotingaö bird whose blue feathers, all intermeshed, were present at the █
█ very dawn of Mayan creation, in the first pages of the Popol Vuh. There █
█ is the delicious obscurity of Tollan, [Maya: Puh], the origination place █
█ of all the great ancient cultures of this region, known in legend only █
█ as ôthe Place of the Reeds.ö And the suspect origins of the █
█ ôMitchell-Hedgesö skull, or The Crystal Skull of Lubaantun, are probed █
█ in yet another legend track on the disk, with sounds nearly all made █
█ from real crystal and pinned to another calendar scale of different █
█ virtues. (HaladynaÆs ôMayascaleö treating both the Maya year and sacred █
█ almanac.) █
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█ Add this new disk to innova 754, HaladynaÆs Selections from the Mayan █
█ Cycle, and you have a digest of all of his newly-invented Mayan calendar █
█ scales. His most signal achievement, these scales go a long way towards █
█ reflecting in sound a Mayan philosophy of time. And time and music are █
█ in-separable! █
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█ Performers on this disk include L.A. freelance oboist Michele Forrest, █
█ young L.A. vocal sensation Allison Bernal, at home in both pop and █
█ contemporary classical settings, duo percussionists Anthony Paul Garcia █
█ and Marjan Riazi, and Jeremy Haladyna himself playing piano, processed █
█ piano, and pipe organ. █
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