Traditional music Huichol
Traditional Huichol music. The Huichol music is another way to reflect this spirituality, which is also attached to each party, having these parties their own music, music for ceremonies, for sacrifice, for dance.
With very few instruments, solo violin, guitar, tepo (drum, the voice of God for the Huichol) and the rattle (rattle made from a gourd), apart from the flute and horn, sporadically used, these are the means by which the musician Huichol communicate or express their experiences.
It is an almost pentatonic music, using only a scale of five tones, your listener may seem dizzying, besides being certainly repetitive.
Canto Ceremonial Huichol and the Cruz family, offers 9 subjects Huichol, some recorded sheltered from the fire.
The Huichol music is another way to reflect this spirituality, which is also attached to each party, having these parties their own music, music for ceremonies, for sacrifice, for danzaomenzaron to distribute peyote (híkuri) to all persons that after a while he healed, fed and removed their thirst.
Contemporary music - Huichol
Huichol music is very varied. Among the traditional genres include the sounds of xaweri and kanari (rabel and guitarrita), which is always sung with new improvised verses and played with indigenous manufacturing instruments to accompany the dance zapateada.
The repertoire of the mariacheros includes corridos and other popular songs, whose lyrics are sometimes in Huichol, but played with traditional instruments mestiza (violin, guitar, bass). Currently, the most famous is the Blue Venado set New Cologne, Jalisco.
The mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, north of Jalisco, are inhabited by a mystical and beautiful culture in which constantly enigmatic worlds are created whose recurring characters are moons, suns, trees, labyrinths, spirals, mountains and cosmic oceans that endlessly appear expressed in art, religion and customs of the Huichol.
One of the best known music groups wixarika is "Huichol Musical" were formed as a group in Fresnillo, Zacatecas but most of the members of the original group are New Cologne, Mezquitic municipality, state of Jalisco, Mexico.
Another group is "El Venado Azul" El Venado Azul The group was formed with four members of the Huichol community in the northern highlands of Jalisco. After the disintegration of the original group, Jose Lopez Robles, founder and director of the ensemble decided to relaunch the concept, keeping the original roots of their region, ie the Huichol dialect and the characteristic attire.
