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Also available on the 2017 🎃 Let Your Heart Be Fright 🎃 Compilation.
letyourheartbelight.bandcamp.com/album/let-your-heart-be-fright
" ... It seems that the death whistle might have been used in the sacrifices of slaves, because chichtli (in Nahuatl) was an instrument that could produce a chich sound and it was used in the banquets of Aztec merchants where slaves were killed: according to the Florentine Codex, chich was the signal to pull out the hair from the middle of the slave’s head. After comparing the spectrograms of the chich sound made by a human voice with that of the death whistle model, and bearing in mind the connection with Ehecatl the wind god, the death whistle could aptly be named Ehecachichtli in honour of the deity. ... " ~ Roberto Velázquez Cabrera.
letyourheartbelight.bandcamp.com/album/let-your-heart-be-fright
" ... It seems that the death whistle might have been used in the sacrifices of slaves, because chichtli (in Nahuatl) was an instrument that could produce a chich sound and it was used in the banquets of Aztec merchants where slaves were killed: according to the Florentine Codex, chich was the signal to pull out the hair from the middle of the slave’s head. After comparing the spectrograms of the chich sound made by a human voice with that of the death whistle model, and bearing in mind the connection with Ehecatl the wind god, the death whistle could aptly be named Ehecachichtli in honour of the deity. ... " ~ Roberto Velázquez Cabrera.
lyrics
"You have been chosen for, Sacrifice."
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released August 6, 2017
Composed and Performed by Lord Cervos
Background samples courtesy of freesound.org
Composed and Performed by Lord Cervos
Background samples courtesy of freesound.org
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PLAGUE RAT California
"Ring-a-round the rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall
down."
I will play the soundtrack to our world burning.
A project of Replicant Rat.
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