In Mexico I found a book and a stone, in these two elements I found traces of a very complex country
Launch of the Calathea Experimenta label
Composed and edited in Mexico in 2010, this reissue features new mastering that incorporates immersive audio tools from the original lossless files.
The Year of the Rabbit
Sol Rezza (Mexico/Argentina, 2010–2023)
The Year of the Rabbit is an immersive radiophonic album by sound artist Sol Rezza, weaving together sonic textures, archival voices, and narrative fragments to explore the spiritual and philosophical complexity of Nahuatl cosmology.
At the heart of the work is an intimate interview with cultural promoter and activist Esperanza Rascón, interlaced with reflections drawn from Laurette Séjourné’s seminal study Pensamiento náhuatl cifrado en los calendarios. This fusion becomes a multidimensional sonic essay, one that listens deeply into ancient knowledge systems and their enduring resonance in the present.
Rezza builds a richly layered soundscape where voices emerge and dissolve amid environmental recordings and electroacoustic compositions. The album not only revisits Séjourné’s insights into the calendrical systems of the Nahuatl civilization—revealing their intricate relationships with time, agriculture, astronomy, and spiritual life—but also interrogates their philosophical implications through a contemporary lens.
Rascón’s voice brings these reflections into dialogue with living memory and activism, grounding the metaphysical in lived experience. The result is a work that transcends traditional formats of audio storytelling, acting simultaneously as sonic archaeology, poetic narrative, and philosophical inquiry.