Lake of the Moon, Kevin Houben - Backum Brass, Castricum

The travels of the Aztec people as they headed south through North America looking for a new home, acted as the inspiration for Lake of the Moon. The composition contains small fragments of Oriental music and South American rhythms andoccasionally, Russian Cossacks seem to raise their heads. The journey from North to South is not without danger, which is represented by threatening sounds within the music. In the Adagio divoto the composer takes us along to the Texcoco Lake,which the Aztecs called the Lake of the Moon. Brass band Backum Brass is led by Major Harmen Cnossen and is part of Muziekvereniging Emergo from Castricum in the Netherlands.