Jorge Reyes - PreHispanic (CD)

Recommended Soundtrack:CAVE OF THE DEAD CANOE

By Dhani  Jun 20, 2007

Pros: Part 1 aboriginal life on west coast Mexico 16th Century

Cons: There are no cons.

Part 1 aboriginal life on west coast of Mexico in the 16th Century as seen through the eyes of a Scottish teenage seaman. CAVE OF THE DEAD CANOE* by Andrew Macquire, a mischievous Scottish seaman ghost from 16th Century Scotland evidently still stuc...k on the earth plane, tells his gripping tale beginning as an 11 year old cabinboy to none other than the notorious pirate & slave trader Master Francis Drake. Drake's English exploratory vessel is on a secret mission financed by Good Queen Bess & departs Plymouth in 1577 headed for the New World, first destination Nova Albion (now San Francisco). However, our young hero Andrew never makes it there but instead is banished from THE GOLDEN HIND on the last leg of her torturous (and scandalous) two-year journey and placed on a raft along with a young Welsh mate named Ian Burns, this as punishment by Drake for the lads' committing what in that age was considered an "abhominal lechery". The two teenage Christian white boys arrive at a small village called Bandera on the west coast of Mexico in what is now known as Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, currently one of the crown jewels on the Mexican Riviera. The young seamen, with only the clothes on their back, are warmly welcomed by brownskin MAYAN refugee warriors -led by a child warrior named Klalok- who had escaped their Yucatan homeland upon the brutal onslaught of the SPANISH CONQUISTADORES in the 16th Century; and later POLYNESIAN scatterlings who arrive at Bandera by palapa-thatched warrior canoe from as far away as Truk. Andrew's fascinating tale spans over thirty years & two continents & describes the clash of two cultures, one white European & Christian, & the other brownskin MesoAmerican & "Pagan". It was channelled by Frank E. Thomas, a pseudonym chosen by the now-deceased channeller because of the explosive nature of his tale & in deference to his immediate family members, who disowned the mss. after his death. Instead CAVE OF THE DEAD CANOE* was copyrighted & registered with Screenwriters Guild by award-winning Canadian writer Jody Overend, who completed a masterful Modern English translation of the original unexpurgated mss. *Copyright 1992 & Reg. Screenwriters Guild 1992 by Jody Overend ALL RIGHTS RESERVED So where does JORGE REYES & his magical pre-Columbian tunes come into my story? I was handed the rare mss. of CAVE OF THE DEAD CANOE* by the channeller about half-way through what was originally planned as a two-week vacation in Puerto Vallarta that unexpectedly blossomed into a 24 year "layover" effectively changing the course of my life. (I was born in upper state N.Y.) Through the simple language Thomas channels of an uneducated teenage boy, I became totally immersed in PreHispanic "time" as Andrew describes in detail the Mayan & Polynesian beliefs (especially the open & uninhibited way they treat sex), their foods, medicines, the traditions that clashed with the invading Spanish soldiers & their ritualistic ceremonies involving the ingestion of a magic mushroom, usually during the full moon. The music that Thomas specifically recommended that I hear while reading his tale was a tape he handed me of PreColumbian music by JORGE REYES & his orchestra and it all EERILY fit in: the drum, the flute, the gourd, passionately moving with all the nuances of Andrew's exciting roller coaster adventure, including later the search of his long-lost son Willyum. And that's how, while writing a book about this as yet unpublished tale (titled A TALE OF TWO TALES The Strange Story of "Cave of the Dead Canoe"* by Dhani Schimizzi) I came across the beautiful & haunting preHispanic music of JORGE REYES. By the by, two screenplays have already been written, one a sanitized version by Marlene Lenoir authorized by the channeler & suitable for a mini-maxi tv series with Polynesian & MesoAmerican themes & the other screenplay by Jody Overe Read more Less