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8 October 2020

CD release of the sound composition "Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya" by Götz Naleppa

on the "World Edition" label on 8 October 2020 (15 €).

Available via "World Edition„.

Idea, composition and direction: Götz Naleppa

Genre: Audio Art / Sound Art

Production: Radio Educación, DeutschlandradioKultur, rbb 2007

Text research and assistance: Anja Gundelach

Recording date: May 2006

Music on indigenous instruments: Jorge Reyes

Sound design: Peter Avar

Participants: Leticia Méndez Intzin - Maya-K'iché

Juan Chuno Lopez Intzin - Maya-Tzeltal

Guadalupe Asunción Gutierrez - Maya-Chol

Martin Engler - German

Total duration: 00:46:42

Content: After plants and animals, the first humans were created from clay. But they were too soft and disintegrated. The second humans were made of wood. But they forgot to honour their creators and were destroyed again. The third people were made entirely of maize, they thanked their creators and founded families and nations. So tells the Popol Vuh, the unique Mayan creation book, which was given to a missionary in the 16th century in Mayan language 'so that the lore of our people might survive'. Götz Naleppa has created a sound composition from German and Mayan-language text, jungle sounds from Mayan temple sites and music on prehispanic instruments, in which the cruel and cosmic-comic of creation can be experienced.

Gold Award as "World's Best Radioplay

at the New York Festival 2008.

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