Memory CD Puyanáwa
The Puyanawa double CD recording project has made possible the recording, mixing, mastering and production of the first album of the Puyanawa ethnic group, Mancio Lima, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil.
This is the first time that the Puyanawa people have made a professional recording of their traditional music.
The Puyanawa suffered, as did many other peoples of Acre, from the growth of rubber and rubber tapping activities in the region in the early 20th century. Since the first contacts with non-Indians, many have died in clashes or from diseases acquired in the process. The survivors were forced to work in rubber and quickly saw their way of life blighted as a result of the methods used by the “rubber colonels” to keep the Indians under their yoke. The Puyanawa were dispossessed of their land, catechised and educated in schools, which forbade the expression of any trace of their culture.
It was only with the beginning of the process of demarcation of their lands that the Puyanawa culture was once again valued by the Indians themselves, who have made efforts to recover their native language, a task that is being carried out with difficulty, given the small number of speakers. (ISA Socio-environmental Institute)
Our mission and purpose is to promote and safeguard the musical and cultural traditions of the Amazonian peoples.
To protect and disseminate the cultural and spiritual heritage of these peoples: art, language, dances, tales, myths, music, and in general everything that constitutes the cosmology of the Amazonian peoples, and especially their close link with nature, of which they feel they are an inseparable part.
The double CD includes traditional ceremonial songs, passed down by the ancestors for generations and recorded in the village with a good group of Puyanawa men and women, as well as songs inspired and composed by Puwê and Vari and accompanied by professional musicians.
Musicians who have participated in the CD:
Erico Moreira (Artistic Producer-Guitars-Bass-Cavaquiño-Drums).
Jabu Morales (Choirs and percussions)
Victor Salvatti (Guitar)
Alexander Lora (Percussions)
Pablo Giménez (Flutes)
Presentation of the CD at Casa América in Barcelona
Date and time: 11 May 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
Recovery of the culture of the Brazilian indigenous Puyanawa people.
As part of the Festival of Good Stories that Casa Amèrica Catalunya has been promoting since 2012, presentation of the CD of traditional and ceremonial songs of the Puyanawa, an indigenous Brazilian people from the state of Acre who have suffered the loss of land and the annulment of their culture due to the growth of latex and rubber exploitation activities in the region.
The event, which also includes a live musical performance, includes the participation of Luiz Puwe Puyanawa, one of the spiritual and social leaders of his people, and Vari Puyanawa, his wife, who is responsible for a work of cultural strengthening through painting, crafts and music.
In addition to presenting the CD that began to be recorded and produced in Barcelona a year ago, the purpose of their trip to Spain is to explain the situation of the Puyanawa and to make visible their struggle to recover the sacred territories where their ancestors lived.
Since the first contacts with non-indigenous people at the beginning of the 20th century, many members of the Puyanawa community died in clashes or from acquired diseases. The survivors were forced into slave labour and tasks far removed from their traditional way of life.
Activity organised with the association Guardians de l’Amazònia, Associació La Maloka and L’Encantada.
Crowdfounding del Cd
