AYA Records presents: Humazapas’ debut with 'Sara Mama', homage to the land and Kichwa tradition.
The concept of “getting back to your roots” rarely has such a literal meaning, or at the same time such an ancestral meaning, as in the case of the Ecuadorian group Humazapas. Usually in the music industry this concept is used when an artist returns to a past sound, going back to that moment of newness, exploration and ingenuity, perhaps. But not Humazapas. These natives of the Kichwa communities of the Ecuadorian Andes, who have been working on this project for a decade, see “getting back to your roots” as a profound connection with their cultures, language, dance, the rituals that connect them to their deities and, of course, music.
Humazapas was formed in 2010, when twelve teenagers from the Kichwa communities of Turuku, San Pedro, Jatun Topo and Anrabí decided to salvage the sounds and ritual dances of the Kichwa communes at the foot of the Tayta Imbabura and Mama Cutakachi volcanoes. The group explores an ancestral exercise translated into the fusion of native musics and contemporary structures, proposing the continuity of the art of the ancestral peoples and nationalities of Ecuador in future generations. Like a sound document, it also ties in dance and the audiovisual arts to translate an experience through the journey of a seed that is born from the earth, sprouts from it and whose fruit has fed, and will continue to feed, generations for centuries.
| A1 | Jatun Mama Pacha Kallari |
| A2 | Tamiajun |
| A3 | Pugyu |
| A4 | Chichu Burru |
| A5 | Adiós Mamita |
| A6 | Llandu |
| B1 | Romero Llullu Sisa |
| B2 | Hana Chagra |
| B3 | Pacho |
| B4 | Sara Tipi |
| B5 | Rosa Kitumba |
| B6 | Warmi Razu Chakigupi |
