These songs by Artur Mena were recorded in a maloca in the jungle during a 10-day dieta in Peru. It is a recording of one man, singing by himself, surrounded by the insects and animals of the rainforest. (IT IS NOT A STERILE STUDIO RECORDING and is filled with AMBIENT SOUNDS throughout.)
1 – Aquita de Puquio (Spring Water)
2 – Vuela Como el Condor (Flying Like a Condor)
3 – Sirenita Bobinsana (Bobinsana Little Mermaid)
4 – Cancion de Paz (Song of Peace)
5 – Canta el Ayaymama (The Song of Ayaymama)
6 – Salvernos Nuestra Tierra (Let’s Save Our Planet)
7 – Soguita de Flor Azul (Blue Flower Vine)
8 – Vuela Como el Condor (Flying Like a Condor)*
9 – Sirenita Bobinsana (Bobinsana Little Mermaid)*
10 – Cancion de Paz (Song of Peace)*
11 – Canta el Ayaymama (The Song of Ayaymama)*
*The last four songs are repeated in English.
THE SHAMAN & AYAHUASCA – See the film and read the book
1 – Aquita de Puquio (Spring Water)
Spring water I will give you
Spring water I will give you
To wash your heart
To cleanse your heart
Spring water I will give you
Spring water I will give you
To wash your heart
To cleanse your heart
And at full moon nights
And at full moon nights
Ayahuasca we shall drink
To heal our little lives
And at full moon nights
And at full moon nights
Ayahuasca we shall drink
To heal our little lives
Let’s sing and dance with joy
Let’s sing and dance with joy
Thanking Earth for the plants
That heal us
Let’s sing and dance with joy
Let’s sing and dance with joy
Thanking Earth for the plants
That heal us
And at full moon nights
And at full moon nights
Ayahuasquita we shall drink
To heal our little lives
And at full moon nights
And at full moon nights
Ayahuasquita we shall drink
To heal our little lives
2 – Vuela Como el Condor (Flying Like a Condor)
Spread your wings and
Fly like the condor
And look from above
How beautiful life is if
You know how to live and love
If you know how to live and love
Wealth is worthless
If your soul is filled with sadness
You can change today
Open your heart
Let Love flow in
And all will change
With little Ayahuasca
And all will change.
(Repeats)
3 – Sirenita Bobinsana (Bobinsana Little Mermaid)
Little River Mermaid dance
Dance with the wind
Little mermaid from Renquiilla
Dance dance with the wind
With your flowers and aromas
Perfume our hearts, heal, heal our little bodies
Clean, clean our little spirits
We shall sing icaros
In Ayahuasca ceremonies
We will dance very close
Little Bobinsana Mermaid
4 – Cancion de Paz (Song of Peace)
Let’s all sing with our heart
A song of peace and freedom
Let’s sing together with one voice
This song of peace and freedom
Why struggle?
Why suffer?
Why cry?
Let love grow in you and grow in me
And nothing else
Love is peace, love is joy and happiness
5 – Canta el Ayaymama (The Song of Ayaymama)
Fresh water drops start falling down your cheeks
The Little Mother is cleansing your heart
Pulsations of a thousand colored little stars in your vision
And far away the song of the Ayaymama is heard
The moon illuminates inside you
Rivers of life giving water run run throughout
Your being, Aya…aya…ayahuasquita, Little Mother,
Heal, heal your children
Aya…ya ya hesquito
Sing, sing, sing, sing
The Ayaymama
Sing, sing, sing, sing
Thank you Pachamama
Thank you Tati Indi [Inca: Father Sun]
Thanks for healing us and cleansing us
Thanks for your medicines
Thanks Ayahuasca
6 – Salvernos Nuestra Tierra (Let’s Save Our Planet)
I woke up today, thinking what to do
In order to change the problems that exist in this life
Our planet slowly agonizes
The pollution every day grows faster
Let’s all put our hands together
And let’s save our Earth
For a better future and the days in the near future
That will come
Let’s care about our environment
Rivers, mountain, glaciers, our flora and
Our fauna and life will change
And children will smile
And people will sing
(Repeats)
7 – Soguita de Flor Azul (Blue Flower Vine)
Little blue flower vine
Clean my life with your power
Chakrunita mamancuna paint my visions with your colors
I want to live free as the wind
And I want to be able to fly to the skys
I want to feel freedom
I want to live my freedom
Ayahuasca mamancuna
Charunita mamancuna
Paint my visions
I want to live free as the wind
And I want to be able to fly to the skys
I want to feel freedom
I want to live my freedom
(Repeats)
Translation: Jose Manuel Calvillo
© 2011 Artur Mena, all rights reserved
