Valley Zapotec is an indigenous endangered language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This song cycle reflects the poet's migration journey to the other side, along with emotion we all recognize in the human experience.
This song cycle reflects the poet's migration journey to the other side, along with emotion we all recognize in the human experience.
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Laty rria muly
zhyet riani loguezh. Bzeinya ricy, brua ricy. Tu buny naa? Dizhsa rgwia, per nazh dicwat ri ricy. Wzhiny ruana - cuan ra sa? Lazhzyet bunyi nua. Gyec mulyi nai. |
The place where you can just scoop up money,
it's far away from home. I arrived here, I grew up here. What kind of person am I? I speak Zapotec, but only deaf people live here. I cry at night - where is my family? I live in the foreigners' country. This place is a money cage. |
Performance by Kathryn Goldberg (piano) and Emily Drummond (voice).
Recorded by Alfred Goodrich at Silvertone Studios, Ardmore, PA.
Recording made possible by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College.
"Gyec Muly" was first pulished in The Acentos Review.
Recorded by Alfred Goodrich at Silvertone Studios, Ardmore, PA.
Recording made possible by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College.
"Gyec Muly" was first pulished in The Acentos Review.
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Zicy nisy nacu.
Rrulyu lozn, rcaza cwezu rzhunyu mas queity rcazu. Riaa liu, queity rzhadya. |
You are like the water.
You slip through my hands, though I want to stop you. You keep running, though you do not want to go. I drink from you, but my thirst is not quenched. |
Performance by Kathryn Goldberg (piano) and Emily Drummond (voice).
Recorded by Alfred Goodrich at Silvertone Studios, Ardmore, PA.
Recording made possible by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College.
Recorded by Alfred Goodrich at Silvertone Studios, Ardmore, PA.
Recording made possible by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College.
