A music journey into the shamanic world of the Shipibo Konibo. Music by Fred Clarke Alvarez. Chants by Leonilda Huayta Pangoza. 

Meraya is an audiovisual poetic journey that shows Shipibo-Konibo visions from an indigenous logic; letting the natural and free expression of ancestral wisdom flow. Beyond purely anthropological documentaries, there are few films that relate to Shipibo experiences, and Meraya is one of them. 

The proposal developed by Director Pedro Favaron introduces the viewer into the Amazon through the intertwining of fundamental art and everyday practices of Shipibo civilization: kené patterns and textile craft, and an understanding and profound respect for the forest and its beings (earthly and spiritual). These elements relate to equilibrium and to the ordered beauty of connecting. 

As part of its visual and narrative landscapes, Meraya has several layers of sonority. Ikaros, or ayahuasca chants, and the forest, with its birds, rivers, rain, plants, and myriad animals, are all intermingled with Fred Clarke Álvarez's delicate musical arrangements and compositions. This juxtaposition creates a primeval and contemporary view of Shipibo-Konibo culture in which there are no voice-overs nor animations; rather, experience at its raw.

Meraya

Production: Ronald Sanchez Pacheco & Fred Clarke Alvarez 

This musical production has been developed as part of the NASCA exhibition (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) and intends to awaken the senses and tune in with the pre-Hispanic legacy, thus transmitting a new insight into Nasca. This production has been recorded using original Nasca antaras or pan-flutes dating back to 200 B.C. - 650 D.C. Replica antaras also were recorded as diverse musical instruments used in pre-Hispanic times, such as quenas, quenillas, drums, rattles, whistling vessels among other instruments.

Esta producción musical se desarrolla en el marco de la exposición NASCA (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) y tiene la intención de sensibilizar y sintonizar con el legado cultural prehispánico, y así transmitir una nueva mirada hacia la cultura Nasca. Para la producción de este material se ha registrado sonidos de antaras originales que datan entre 200 A.C. - 650 D.C. como también se usaron antaras replicas Nasca. Suenan quenillas, tambores, silbatos, vasijas silbadoras, sonajas entre otros instrumentos musicales que fueron utilizados en época prehispánica.

Sounds of Nasca

This musical production has been developed as part of the NASCA exhibition (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) and intends to awaken the senses and tune in with the pre-Hispanic legacy, thus transmitting a new insight into Nasca. This production has been recorded using original Nasca antaras or pan-flutes dating back to 200 B.C. - 650 D.C. Replica antaras also were recorded as diverse musical instruments used in pre-Hispanic times, such as quenas, quenillas, drums, rattles, whistling vessels among other instruments.

Esta producción musical se desarrolla en el marco de la exposición NASCA (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) y tiene la intención de sensibilizar y sintonizar con el legado cultural prehispánico, y así transmitir una nueva mirada hacia la cultura Nasca. Para la producción de este material se ha registrado sonidos de antaras originales que datan entre 200 A.C. - 650 D.C. como también se usaron antaras replicas Nasca. Suenan quenillas, tambores, silbatos, vasijas silbadoras, sonajas entre otros instrumentos musicales que fueron utilizados en época prehispánica.

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Ofrenda

This musical production has been developed as part of the NASCA exhibition (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) and intends to awaken the senses and tune in with the pre-Hispanic legacy, thus transmitting a new insight into Nasca. This production has been recorded using original Nasca antaras or pan-flutes dating back to 200 B.C. - 650 D.C. Replica antaras also were recorded as diverse musical instruments used in pre-Hispanic times, such as quenas, quenillas, drums, rattles, whistling vessels among other instruments.

Esta producción musical se desarrolla en el marco de la exposición NASCA (Museo de Arte Lima 2017, Museo Rietberg Zúrich 2017-2018, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2018, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2019) y tiene la intención de sensibilizar y sintonizar con el legado cultural prehispánico, y así transmitir una nueva mirada hacia la cultura Nasca. Para la producción de este material se ha registrado sonidos de antaras originales que datan entre 200 A.C. - 650 D.C. como también se usaron antaras replicas Nasca. Suenan quenillas, tambores, silbatos, vasijas silbadoras, sonajas entre otros instrumentos musicales que fueron utilizados en época prehispánica.

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Composed and recorded by: Fred Clarke Alvarez & Ronald Sanchez-Pacheco

Ritual

This is a music track inspired by the prophecy of the return of the White Buffalo. The Lakota (Sioux) Nation has passed down The Legend of the White Buffalo–a story now approximately 2,000 years old, transmitted to many council meetings, sacred ceremonies, and through the tribe’s storytellers. Have communication with the Creator through prayer with clear intent for Peace, Harmony, and Balance for all life living in Mother Earth.

The Return of the White Buffalo

The Return Of The White Buffalo

Wayra Nuna: Spirit of the Wind

Recording session in the temple of Chavin de Hauntar, Anchash Peru. Quena Chincha, bone flute, whistles and north coast sea sounds. Ancash, Perú 2010.

Chaupin

March 3

Interstellar (Binaural)

Pacha Paqariy Ambient Works i

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Spirit of the Earth

Tema inspirado por el pelicano, ave de los mares, medicina del balance y equilibrio en profunda armonia. Suena antara de plumas de pelicano, sonidos de naturaleza grabada al sur de Lima.

Theme inspired by the pelican, bird of the seas, medicine of balance, equilibrium in deep harmony. Played with an antara made of pelican quills, nature sounds recorded south side of Lima. 

Paqarina: Healing Sounds of Peru

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Tuag

Tema inspirado por la paqarina, fuente de vida para la tradición andina. 

Theme inspired by the paqarina, source of life for the andean tradition.

Paqarina

Two Ravens

Palakwayo means "red-tailed hawk" in the Hopi language. Bird medicine who flies with me in the path. Honouring the red road of the Anasazi. Sounds of a navajo native flute, rattle, hand drum, sounds of hawk and rivers from the Peruvian andes.

Palakwayo significa "halcón cola roja" en el lenguaje Hopi. Ave medicina que me acompaña en el camino. Honrando el camino rojo de los Anasazi. Suena flauta navajo, sonaja, tambor de mano, sonidos de halcón y rios del ande Peruano.

Palakwayo

The Inka world and its chants “Inka bewa” are presented through morning images. The Inkas belong to that further spiritual world that is accessed through ayahuasca.

2020

Inka Bewa

After dealing with darkness, there’s Inin Bewa, or the chants of joy that lighten hearts and connect with that perfumed existence. In this part, Meraya will also show traditional Shipibo-Konibo dances from the native community of Santa Clara, Ucayali Region. Specifically, Ani Sheati, a festive representation of that world of happiness transmitted by “chaikonibo” ancestors.

Inin Bewa

Benxoai chants in which healing occurs through a direct struggle against dark forces. The medicinal doctor, a strong Shipibo woman, sings and smokes a pipe; there’s fire, there are stars, while a Shipibo patient is being healed. In order to maintain poetry and metaphors, nothing’s literal: there is no voice-over explaining anything in Meraya, but rather images and music speaking for themselves.

Benxoai

Kano, or the chant that connects with the medicinal world, is also a word used in Ucayali to describe waterways and the thick traces of “kené” designs, or the patterns found in Shipibo-Konibo embroidery, painting, and pottery. The mythical origins of the “kené” traditional art forms are linked with the shapes of water and its supernatural entities, such as sirens.

Kano

Panati, a chant of defense, is sung as the morning progresses- roots, the forest from within, and water. This is also a metaphor of how humans reach out for connection just like nature through its communication networks; the earth’s profoundness is at the same time the profundity of the sky, which relate to the depths of human experience.

Panati

The chant of “koxoni” at dawn- there’s fog, vapor, a sense of origin, or how elements start to meet and form.

Koxoni

Ayni

Duna

Palpa

Paracas

Genuine Heart Of Sadness

Heart Of The Earth

Fred Clarke Alvarez | Joaquin Peña | Jose Antonio Nuñez

A Bridge Of Strings

Cosmic Meditation

Awakening birds

K'uichi is the rainbow. A bridge to multidimensional worlds. 

K'uichiruna

Chirapa is the rain which brings rainbows.  

Chirapa

A place to give birth. In Ollantaytambo there is a place called Paqaritampu, where the Sun align to the Earth, every sunrise of solstices and equinoxes. A new birth every cycle.     

Paqaritampu

Yakumama

8/12/2017 Lima, Peru.
Guitar: Juan Pablo Aragón
Synth: Fred Clarke Alvarez

Awakenings

Tema inspirado en el maíz, alimento que cambió el camino de la humanidad hasta el día de hoy. 

Theme inspired by the corn, food that changed the path of humanity until today. 

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Sara Raymi

Tema inspirado por la profunda relación entre los Himalayas y los Andes. 

Theme inspired by the deep relation between the Himalayas and the Andes.

Himalandes

Tema inspirado por el Oceano, como la fuente principal de vida en este planeta. Suenan 2 antaras hechas de arcilla (Nasca, cultura Pre Inca), los sonidos de la naturaleza grabados al sur de Lima.  

Theme inspired by the Ocean, as the main source of life on this planet. Played with 2 antaras made of clay (Nasca, Pre Inca culture), nature sounds recorded south side of Lima. 


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Fred Clarke Alvarez (Peru) multi-instrumentalist, music producer, researcher of Andean-Amazonian musical instruments and its relation with shamanic practices and traditions. He has published albums such as Paqarina: Healing Sound of Peru, Ambient 1, Sounds of Nasca, Sound of Pucllana, Meraya Soundtrack, and has participated in collaborations with other music artists. In 2017, he published Sounds of Nasca, a production for the Museum of Art of Lima and Rietberg Museum of Zürich using original instruments (dating back to 200 B.C. – 650 D.C.) for the international exhibition NASCA-MALI. 

More info: https://www.patreon.com/fredclarkealvarez

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