Following our tradition, Mictlán II is a concept album in which seven artists we selected created their interpretation of the journey to the underworld according to the pre-Hispanic mythology and cosmovision of the Aztecs.
Mictlán is the underworld and part of the vertical universe, created by the pair of sovereign Gods of the Dead. Its nine levels represent the journey of the God Tonatiuh, who, upon dying in the west, enters his phase of darkness, making a trip to Mictlán, where the entrails of the Earth are, a place of rest and gestation of components that are to be born renewed to land again on Earth.
These two phases, light and darkness, are directly associated with the concepts of life and death. In a symbolic, artistic and philosophical sense, our life takes on the same fate: we emerge from inside the womb to see the light, we forge our lives to reach the maximum development making our hearts flourish and finally our life dies down, and right there begins a trip to Mictlán where our body will be deposited inside the Earth.
Tepeme Monamictlán is the second of the nine levels and residence of Tepeyóllotl (god of the mountains, the echoes and the jaguar). This is the region where two mountains collide, producing echoes as a signal to the dead to cross to the next level.
released December 16, 2021
Collaborations: YNV, Komodo Kolektif, Isaac Soto, Andi Otto, Spaniol, Tai Rona, Decha.
Artwork: Janeth Rojas
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Mastering: Tilmann (Haunted Water)
