Ni yuxibū xinã rewe

an important document of a tradition that was in danger of being lost.

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The Huni Kuin people live on the banks of the Jordan River, inside the Amazon Forest, in the state of Acre, almost at the border with Peru, and have in the NixiPae, Ayahuasca, their medicine and vehicle for access to the Spirit of the Forest. Singing, within the Huni Kuin cosmo-perception, is also a strong and essentialment for the connection with the spirit of the Forest, in an anamorphic reconfiguration. During the Nixi Pae ritual, the invocation of the spirit, “miração”and healing, are evoked through chanting and after the ingestion of the sacred drink. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of theForest, emerged from an initial contact with Ibã, in 2016 when I recorded the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia. Since then, and especially after my “;miração” experience conducted by Ibã himself, I started working on his and his chanting, in order to create the sound space of the trance, with the dilation of time and the transformation of space through chanting. These are chants of cleansing and healing that evoke the power of the Nixi Pae and its”miração” the power of the rivers, the ish, and the animalsof the forest. They are chants offered in dreams to people who need help.