Echos Through The Desert

by Ruben Olguin

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Kuaua 04:47
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Astialakwa 06:05
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Ft. Sumner 06:15
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4h Park 05:26

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"Echos Through The Desert"
By Ruben Olguin
All sounds / engineering / installation / art & design by Ruben Olguin
Produced for CD & Digital By
HARMONIC OOZE RECORDS / Arizona / Summer 2022
HZ No. 013
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Artist's Liner Notes:

This project would not be possible with out the support of Unsilent Desert Press, my family and all the ancestors and cousins who have been lost and forgotten. I hope sharing these stories with the world will help honor their spirit and stand testament to the effects of colonialism and assimilation on indigenous people. This album explores themes of echoes as a physical overlap of time, space, and memory. The noise of our environment reflects the histories of erasures of the indigenous people who have occupied the land, whose drum beats were silenced and replaced with radio static.

It was made by recording the noise of the environment at each site through pottery resonators made of hand harvested and processed clay. The resonators allow the interpretation of modern noise at these sites and tune the echoes of the past that still ring today. The events at each site influence the composition, giving rhythm, pattern, and cadence to the progression of elements. Performed live combining pottery drums, FM radio, and amplified feedback loops using the resonators to echo out back through the desert.

Track 1: Kuaua
Kuaua Pueblo was the site of first Spanish contact with Coronado and the Tiwa People. It was a prosperous village of about 1,200 people and inhabited since AD 1,325. There were at least 12 adjacent villages at the time of coronado’s arrival in the winter of 1540. The Spanish forcefully occupied one of the villages near Kuaua and survived on provisions from the surrounding communities to survive the winter. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, most of the Spanish settlers were killed or fled.

Track 2: Astialakwa
On July 24, 1694, Governor Diego De Vargas, and 220 soldiers and allies sieged the Tiwa village of Astialakawa at the top of the San Diego Mesa. It was a rebuilt village following the 1680 Pueblo Revolt and was one of the most violent sieges during the Spanish Reconquest of what is now New Mexico. The Jemez people defended the village hailing rocks and arrows until they were overrun. The spanish burned the village and some of the people threw themselves off of the cliff to avoid the brutal capture.

Track 3: Ft. Sumner
Between 1863 and 1868, the U.S. Army forcibly removed Navajo and Apache people from their homelands and forced them to live in the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation at Ft. Sumner. The Long Walk was a 300+ mile journey over 3 years. Living on meager rations and bitter conditions thousands of people died of starvation, exposure and disease. The 1868 Treaty with the Navajo ended the encampment and the captives were allowed to return to their homelands.

Track 4: 4H Park
4 -H Park was once a cemetery for the Albuquerque Indian School from 1888 - 1933. The school was used to assimilate Indigenous Children into American society. Children and staff who died at the AIS were buried in this portion of the original school. There are little records or information about the children who died and were buried here. In 1972 it was taken over by the City of Albuquerque and remains were found at the park. In 1999 a plaque was installed recognizing the site as a cemetery.

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