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http://leviffocus.rnews.be/fr/loisirs/musique/taiga-maya-un-projet-a-la-fois-musical-visuel-et-litteraire/article-1194836235522.htm "Taiga Maya", a project at once musical, visual and literary 2042, on a piece of land of torrid Bering Strait, a Siberian people joined by Mexican migrants trying to survive. It is the cosmic musical project, visual and literary, Taiga Maya, signed by Belgium's Thierry Van Roy, who takes Melanie Gabriel, daughter of Peter in his travels staggering. null © Philippe Cornet Perfume Siberian echoes Latino, English folk voices, cries and whispers, frost Mayan fantasy sci-fi: this is the soundtrack of a saga novel, contained in a precious package released on October 11 Naïve / Pias. CD-DVD-Taiga Maya book is out of the imagination of Thierry Van Roy, big guy of 52 years at the pace of serial-trapper of the Bulge. It Gaume that the meeting: he fled with his wife and son Brussels in 2005, a house not far from the forests and landscapes râblées greenhouse tea. We're 21 July 2010: in a few weeks out the magnum opus of Thierry, eight years of work and self-funded since bourlingage floes Yakutia up heatwaves Yucatan. Looking for a kind of pop philosopher's stone, if you can name this mixture that sometimes the purity of a frozen reindeer breath telescope but mostly styles and periods in a strange futuristic mill. TaigaMaya150 "On Friday, December 21, 2012, an unknown celestial object collides with Earth: the shock is so violent that the planet lever a quarter turn on its axis, moving the North Pole to the equator. A small village Yakutia (Siberia) wakes up under a scorching sun and motionless, frozen at its zenith until the end of time. " The pitch of Taiga Maya begins with these precepts, which, because of geographic upheaval, will bring together descendants of Mayan and Siberians, pushed north by a "dark and icy Mexico in search of sun disappeared." Taiga Maya recounts the 30 years that separate 2012 from 2042, a UFO space-musical would abductee Van Roy for immersing in a line parallel endless vortex. Do not call right now 112, we explained. Altered consciousness "I awoke in 2002 when I realized this project." Roy smiled, but it is only half-jokingly. Despite his career (he produced two albums of Abdelli for Real World, Peter Gabriel's label), Van Roy traces the seeds of the Taiga in childhood: "I was born insomniac since I was a little boy 'm asleep at 4 o'clock in the morning and at midnight so I travel in imaginary worlds. Every night I shamanistic crossings. " Color blindness pronounced (with the exception of the blue, he sees all the dominant colors in green) throws a bit of strangeness that son of plastic electronics engineer stuffed with Mozart and visits to churches. Van Roy more to crack the department paternal compensators and other electrical circuits. As an adult, he made another experiment, just as magnetic, combining Golda, 20 years his senior and medium "extraordinary". Before this doubtfully, Thierry explains: "I was 27 years and seeing the CD-ROM by Peter Gabriel, she said:" One day you'll work with that guy. "Shortly before his death, She also told me about a singer seen on TV, she did not know the name, with which I absolutely had to work. I discovered that it was Melanie Gabriel. Yes, there is a strong Based in shamanic and esoteric Taiga Maya, the desire to experience altered states of consciousness. I think we can live several realities at once, I think forever. " Van Roy, who then quotes Jung and vision quantum of time, was introduced to the school of Michael Harner, an American anthropologist who investigated extensively the principles of shamanism: to short a mediator between humans and souls. The genus is fermented in traditional societies Siberian since the dawn of humanity, and then won the Amerindian peoples migrating from the Bering Strait. This is not a theory made to spice the stew otter Thierry visits Yakutia, ice from the north-eastern Siberia, to work on site shamanic techniques. "The trip is for everyone: Yakutia, I learned to move in an augmented reality, not ordinary." Seen in the DVD more than 2 hours included in the pack: In extremely cold, the local challenge the overwhelming superiority of the nature of the frontiers of the mind and consciousness. Hence these impressions seismic and sounds coming from somewhere else time consuming. Van Roy, Geiger-legged, there trimballe microphone and camera, as if searching for signals undetectable to the human senses. But then the conversation from the noosphere Gaume imagined by Teilhard de Chardin (a sort of biosphere of thought), the producer said that "Taiga Maya may well do without all these theories." Fortunately. The soul of Melanie September 15, 2010, Brussels. Before a meal and a welcoming exhausted Thierry, Melanie Gabriel, 34, smiled. She spent several long days of rehearsals between Belgian Huy and this cozy house in Woluwe, where Mom Van Roy offers food and shelter. "You wrote me a letter in which you talked about some ideas mix of world music." Melanie Thierry fixed: "I thought you were still a guy who was interested in my father (smile), and then you came to London, and I found your project even more passionate, more intriguing." It was eight years ago: Roy Gabriel Jr takes on Mexico and together they débusquent traces of ancient Mayan civilization or record the percussionists of the State of Tabasco. Little, they escape to a fatal car pileup. "More young, my father was interested in shamanism, our education was closely linked to nature, and this accident, even traumatic, I somehow found some feeling ignored so far." Thierry has had plenty of time to crack "for the soul of Melanie, for her who has the energy of an angel." He addresses her: "You are without doubt the medium, the transmission, the interface of this project." The medium cracks another zygomatic takes a drink of water. Delighted. Taiga Maya, Melanie Thierry Van Roy-Gabriel. The object is beautiful and generous. A book in French and English, over 200 pages tells The World Circadian, one after the earthquake of 2012: it is written by Thierry Van Roy in the breath of anticipation. It includes many photos of trips to Yakutia and Mexico and the strange composite Web Detheux Jean. Another light bursts on the DVD, it also fed these contrasts hot / cold. The challenge of bringing the listener into other works there as realities on the CD around a sort of world folk: the very English voice of Melanie Gabriel does great meetings, whether the Yakut Jew's harp or the polyphonic vocal melancholy Great Russian (The Love Song). The success comes from the merging of continents, but also the mystery that inhabits the sounds, voices or sounds, the melody suddenly feeding (Ocean Years). A beautiful work of classical wedding mutations. (Ph.C.) www.taigamaya.com The cultural center will host the first Belgian Huy (and global) of Taiga Maya December 17, www.acte2.be.

Thanks LR ! I went on the site a while ago when i saw it on mel's myspace page. Sounds intriguing. I like the sample composition of voices. I will be looking forward to december. thanks.

Darkroot, I put it there, in case you've been missing it at the general level: Taiga Maya http://www.deezer.com/fr/#music/thierry-van-roy/taiga-maya-679971