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David Rothenberg (USA) Birbyné
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė (Lithuania) Kanles & Voice
Miguel Hiroshi (Spain) Pumpkin

There are places on the planet that have such a strong natural resonance that they attract tones of respect and graceful contemplation. They ask people with their sheer natural grandeur to exist in harmony with the surroundings and create places of deep reflection through song and prayer.

In deep interior Galicia, northwestern Spain, there is such a place that goes by the name of the Sacred Riverside, La Ribeira Sacra.

An area of steep river canyons covered in dense native forests and ancient terraced vineyards known worldwide for its artisanal wines.

Hidden amongst a chestnut forest on the banks of the Rio Sil, there exists a monastery whose first origins are lost in time, but the current structure dates to over a thousand years old.

It is from this monastery that we will broadcast our last stream of this summer tour. A tour that ends with the changing of the leaves and the coming of the northern winds pushing us home to Granada.

For this stream we unite 4 musicians from the 4 directions. In front of an international audience of music producers here in Galicia to assist the World Music conference, WOMEX.

All traveling to this green wonderland to make the walls of this temple resonate with music as it was created for by the Benedictine monks so many centuries ago. But this time, we send this musical resonance out to the whole world live with our satellite dish positioned at the bell tower.

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David Rothenberg, Indre Jurgeleviciute & Miguel Hiroshi "Ruta"

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Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė (Lithuania) Voice & Kankles
Miguel Hiroshi (Spain) kalimba
David Rothenberg (USA) Clarinet

There are places on the planet that have such a strong natural resonance that they attract tones of respect and graceful contemplation. They ask people with their sheer natural grandeur to exist in harmony with the surroundings and create places of deep reflection through song and prayer.

In deep interior Galicia, northwestern Spain, there is such a place that goes by the name of the Sacred Riverside, La Ribeira Sacra.

An area of steep river canyons covered in dense native forests and ancient terraced vineyards known worldwide for its artisanal wines.

Hidden amongst a chestnut forest on the banks of the Rio Sil, there exists a monastery whose first origins are lost in time, but the current structure dates to over a thousand years old.

It is from this monastery that we will broadcast our last stream of this summer tour. A tour that ends with the changing of the leaves and the coming of the northern winds pushing us home to Granada.

For this stream we unite 4 musicians from the 4 directions. In front of an international audience of music producers here in Galicia to assist the World Music conference, WOMEX.

All traveling to this green wonderland to make the walls of this temple resonate with music as it was created for by the Benedictine monks so many centuries ago. But this time, we send this musical resonance out to the whole world live with our satellite dish positioned at the bell tower.

Indre Jurgeleviciute, David Rothenberg & Miguel Hiroshi "Tralará"

STREAM LINK http://youtu.be/zRenPD2m3gA

The 4 musical elements:
North: Davide Salvado (Spain)
East: Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė (Lithuania)
South: Miguel Hiroshi (Spain)
West: David Rothenberg (USA)

There are places on the planet that have such a strong natural resonance that they attract tones of respect and graceful contemplation. They ask people with their sheer natural grandeur to exist in harmony with the surroundings and create places of deep reflection through song and prayer.

In deep interior Galicia, northwestern Spain, there is such a place that goes by the name of the Sacred Riverside, La Ribeira Sacra.

An area of steep river canyons covered in dense native forests and ancient terraced vineyards known worldwide for its artisanal wines.

Hidden amongst a chestnut forest on the banks of the Rio Sil, there exists a monastery whose first origins are lost in time, but the current structure dates to over a thousand years old.

It is from this monastery that we will broadcast our last stream of this summer tour. A tour that ends with the changing of the leaves and the coming of the northern winds pushing us home to Granada.

For this stream we unite 4 musicians from the 4 directions. In front of an international audience of music producers here in Galicia to assist the World Music conference, WOMEX.

All traveling to this green wonderland to make the walls of this temple resonate with music as it was created for by the Benedictine monks so many centuries ago. But this time, we send this musical resonance out to the whole world live with our satellite dish positioned at the bell tower.

Sacred Gathering "Tirioni"

Teto Ocampo (Guitar & Flutes)
Urián Sarmiento (Percussion & Flutes)
Juan Manuel Toro (Cello)

La llamada (the calling)
On the second night at the deep jungle studio, our two guides left us to solve some pressing situation with a local leader.   At night, we realized that those of us left at the camp had no idea how to get back to the village if anything were to happen.  Crawling through the dark jungle aimlessly would not have been an option. 

So, all 9 of us climbed into the mosquito net studio designed for 4 people and hid from the tremendous mosquito onslaught going on outside.   The music played that evening was a musical conversation with the jungle.  Calling out to the infinite voices hiding in the dark that sang and breathed all around us.

Later, in our hammocks, busy killing the mosquitoes keeping us from sleep, we heard a sound.  A sound that silenced us all.  The tension turned to laughter as we were more concerned with killing the mosquitoes than the growling sound just outside camp.

The next day we found out from our guides that it was a Jaguar.

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Hombre de Barro - " La Llamada"

Teto Ocampo - Guitar & Flutes
Urián Sarmiento - Percussion & Flutes
Juan Manuel Toro - Cello

Selvaluz
The jungle dawn has a strange wondrous light.  The sun rays that make it through the countless layers of vegetation cascade down as golden beams. 
This was the first piece of music played on the first morning of recording at the deep jungle studio.  Our first musical offering to the forest.

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Hombre de Barro - "Selvaluz"

Teto Ocampo (Guitar & Flutes)
Urián Sarmiento (Percussion & Flutes)
Juan Manuel Toro (Cello)

Bimforro
While recording in the Maloca, at night the full moon would slowly come up over the jungle horizon and illuminate the green darkness all around us. 
This was the last song played on the last night of our time in the jungle

Hombre de Barro - "Bimforro"

Teto Ocampo (Guitar & Flutes)
Urián Sarmiento (Percussion & Flutes)
Juan Manuel Toro (Cello)

Muerte y ascensión de un arbol (death and ascension of a tree)
At the Maloca, on our last day of recording, right when we were ready to go, the sound of a big chainsaw invaded the area.  We soon found out some neighbors were cutting down a massive old tree.  Our hosts were very upset as they knew which tree it was and couldnt believe it was being cut down.  It was hot, the air was tense.  The sawing sound was deep and constant.     
Out of nowhere, this music came from within the Maloca, flying out into a jungle that faces destruction at the hand of men and their machines.

Hombre de Barro - "Muerte Y Ascensión De Un Árbol"

These recordings were done in collaboration with the Raices Vivas Foundation.  A project that works with the indigenous communities in the area of the Amazonian trapezoid.

Raices Vivas was an idea born from the elders of the area to try to stop the cultural and ecological devastation going on in the area.  The idea was to bring artists from around the world to the jungle to share with the local artists and children.   In hopes that through the process of sharing we can all learn to respect what each culture has to share.  Remembering through art, that we are all children of the earth.  And that we need to care for her and learn from the cultures that have been living in contact with her for as long as anyone can remember.

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Hombre de Barro -  "Hacha Machete Y Garabato"

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Deep heat.  Silence, pause.  Pulsation, tenuous.  Cicadas scream into sleepy visions of shadowy shade.  Windkind messages push hot air upvalley. Carress, thrash, pass - strings, tones, hints with clues.  Walks to the Spring. All Music composed and performed by Rob Mazurek

Space
All over the south of Spain, quiet and calm reign in the afternoon hours of summer. People sleep.  Wildlife hides in the shade, slightly breathless. The only sound are the cicadas screaming into the fiery light of day.  Everything stands still waiting for dusk. Everything besides Rob Mazurek in a century´s old stone house and a mint condition antique Bosendorfer grand piano. If you were lucky enough to have been strolling in August of 2009 around Ferreirola, the last little white village of this remote mountain valley of the Alpujarra, you would have heard wafts of piano and cornet floating through the streets - caressing the high rock walls of this deep river valley.  And if you followed that sound you would have found a house that is the home of Cat Jary, the director of the local music festival, Musica en las Montañas. Rob took to the piano, Ivan sensed the motion and took to the mics. What emerged were these episodes that turned the long hot hours into beauty.  A beauty that lifted our steps at sunset to the bubbling spring in search for more. EarthFrom one valley to another, one piano for another.  This music goes to support Romayne Wheeler and his important work with the Tarahumara Relief Fund.

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Rob Mazurek - "Episode 1"

Rob Mazurek - "Episode 2"

Rob Mazurek - "Episode 3"

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Rob Mazurek - "Episode 4"

Rob Mazurek - "Episode 8"

Rob Mazurek - "Episode 7"

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