Huehuecoyotl Awakening Live (Latino Heritage Month)

Huehuecoyotl Collective, is a live performance experience exploring the convergence of Pre- and Post-Colonization sounds. This musical collaboration of Gustavo Lira, Kafe and Yaleb Villalobos forms a musical alliance between timeless and modern forms of music, taking you on a truly unique auditory journey. Their performances integrate old and new instruments of Mexico and Central America and educate audiences through exposure to culture and purpose through the sounds of analog synthesizers and pre-Hispanic instruments. 




Pre-Hispanics sounds and instruments: Gustavo Lira & Kafe
Synthesizers: Yaleb Villalobos

Corazon De La Tierra (Recorded Live)

Huehuecoyotl Collective is a live performance experience exploring the convergence of Pre- and Post-Colonization sounds. This musical collaboration of Gustavo Lira, Kafe and Yaleb Villalobos forms a musical alliance between timeless and modern forms of music, taking you on a truly unique auditory journey. Their performances integrate old and new instruments from Mexico and Central America and educate audiences through exposure to culture and purpose through the sounds of analog synthesizers and pre-Hispanic instruments, some of them dating back to 1500 A.D. 
Pronounced way-way-coh-YOH-tl, Huehuecoyotl is the combination of Nahuatl words "huehue" meaning "old" and "coyotl" meaning coyote. In Mexica mythology, Huehuecoyotl is God of the arts and lord of music and ceremonial dance, and has been referred to as the Ancient Drum. They are most frequently represented as an old coyote grasping instruments and dancing. Huehuecoyotl represents the combination of good and evil, new and old, mundane and spiritual, youth and old age, feminine and masculine. In those dichotomies fits perfectly the combination of traditional instruments and electronic equipment. As you participate in the performances, we encourage you to close your eyes, relax, and feel yourself transported to an existence in a time that’s both passed and present. Feel yourself sway between the physical and intangible, and let yourself explore the paradoxes you experience through your own culture and customs.