THE TELLURIC CHANT VOLUME IV. MONGOLIAN STEPPE
Serpiente y flor
My friends in Barcelona, upon my return from the Indian Himalayas and after having recorded the first album of telluric singing with the piwang instrumentalist, Jamiang Dorje, told me about the similarity of telluric singing with the guttural techniques of Mongolian khuumii singing.
A natural impulse of curiosity and rapprochement led me to find myself strolling one Sunday morning through the streets of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
It was early 1999 and the city was still in a stupor before the economic and social awakening of the following years. Befriending the small Spanish-American colony helped me to establish strong ties with the city, being the first Spaniard resident in this distant country in central Asia.
Soon I was able to start my first rehearsals with the virtuoso instrumentalist of Morin khuur, Chultem Batsaikhan, Honorary State Artist and considered the first figure in the difficult art of Morin khuur. Later Khorolnorov Amaraa, Ch.Batsaikhan’s partner in the same National Orchestra and also Honorary State Artist in his specialty of Ever buree, another peculiar instrument of the Mongolian tradition, joined the rehearsals.
It was during the next two years that we conducted rehearsals and recordings.
To begin these songs about the encounter between the snake and the water lily flower, constitutes an important and essential stage in the conclusion of the Myth of the Advent of the Prince that I began to write in the early nineties and that should be since then an existential and creative reference point.
Chant 1. Lotus flower
Floating in primordial waters
Your life nourishes within the alluvium of death
There, the most subtle energies
Liberated from the action of existence
Are fused in you divine flower
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Chant 2 . Magic world
From you and in you sublime flower
Will be born the one who in himself knows it all
The one who does not sunder,
In whom the magic and the beauty of the world
Smile in love and compassion
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Chant 3. Golden energies
The dark world of subterranean forces
Unites in knowledge
With the golden energies of the Sun
The burning light you receive in sublime delivery
In this being of yours
Night and day become one
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Chant 4. The dark side
The energy and the strengh of the earth
Of which I carry for you
Allows him to overcome the ignorance
This new being will enlighten the imperceptible and
In the appearance, he will show the hidden
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Chant 5. Kingdom of the death
In the turbid alluvium
Lies my defenceless body
Before me, in omnipotent abandonment
The kingdom of death
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Chant 6. Enlightened passion
Already flower, I am in you
And you in me, snake
Fused in androgenous becoming
Sublime and magic origin of life
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