(Psychill, Downtempo) Uasca - Cosmos Umbilical - 2018 (Electrik Dream # ED009), FLAC (tracks), lossless

UASCA is a tribute to the ancient tribal knowledge of the Amazon. The goal of their music is to use our collective voice to raise awareness of the urgent need to respect the Amazon and all of nature.
Cosmos Umbilical is a musical project related to the ancestral culture of the Shipibo-Conibo people as well as visionary art. It was created by Uasca, an electronic music pairing of DJ Fluxo from Portugal and DJ Tajmahal from France. They combine Tribal Ambient, Downtempo, Chill out, and the sacred songs the Shipibo-Conibo call "the Icaros".
This album pays tribute to the first peoples via electronic music and new creative technologies that these two musical acolytes love. In order to help you to discover these unusual sounds, they immerse themselves in an ancestral culture that is far removed from all materiality that dominates our Western society.
Following a trip to Peru, Taj came back filled with inspiration and appreciation for the Shipibo-Conibo culture from which he learned a great deal about himself and the world of the invisible. This led to the creation of this musical project in partnership with DJ Fluxo. For them, the music is a platform to share knowledge of this culture via music that combines ancestral tradition, new technologies and wicked baselines.
During these expeditions Taj met and recorded normally reclusive senior figures from the Shipibo Conibo: Ricardo Amaringo, Olivia Arevalo, Julian Arevalo and visionary artists: Juan Carlos Taminchi and Anderson Debernardi.
During the meetings with Ricardo, a renowned Shipibo-Conibo shaman, Taj proposed to introduce one of these Icaros to the world in a piece entitled "Cosmos Umbilical". This in turn led to the creation of two other pieces including the songs of Ricardo: "Cosmogoniksun" and "Litlle infinite".
The goal of this project is a tribute to the first people, and to make the Shipibo culture and Amazonian visionary art available to a wider audience through electronic music, an area where Tajmahal and Dj Fluxo feel most comfortable.
Juan Carlos Taminchi honoured us by allowing us to use one of his masterpieces as the basis for the album artwork. This painting is called "ILLUMINACION".
01 AYAH PART ONE
We start with a celestial introduction to the album thanks to our dear guest , she sings like a goddess calling to wake the spirits of the plants.
02 PERCEPTION
Now we enter a new world of experience and perception. Samples were created by our friend Phytosophie from Paris.
03 UMBA
A journey through the South American continent, French Polynesia and an invitation to tribal dance that cannot be ignored. Fat, funky and deeply moving. Get ready to crank it up and feel your body move.
04 REVELATION 999
Entering the world of ceremonies, jungle sounds are mixed with an Icaro from Maestro . This was the first time Fluxo and Taj include sacred chants from a master hearler in a piece.
05 OTHER WORLDS
The deeper into the album, the deeper we get into other worlds, through the gateway, realities are mixing. Where are we now ???
06 COSMOGONIKSUN
Out of this reality we enter one where everything is possible. A world of light, where everything is alive.
07 COSMOS UMBILICAL
This track explores the link between the Cosmos and us as human beings. Ricardo's chants anchor and guide us between the dimensions. Ricardo's chant helps us to stay connected to the jungle and our musical reality.
08 LITTLE INFINITE
We end the album with a positive track. Samples are from The Eckhart Tolle Audio collection teaching series - French version. Fluxo and Taj use this track to connect to the magical truth of the ever present moment. We can easily get to the jungle far from our western societal chaos where it is harder and harder not to become polluted by distortion, discord and chaos.