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Certainly Donoso s most ambitious and challenging undertaking to date Saravá Exu is a symphonic poem of a Brasilian Quimbanda cult ritual and the musical accompaniment of descent into one s own personal hell. In contrast with the continual pursuit of achievement that today s culture teaches us the theme of quot;descent quot; found in many myths in the shape of the hero going underground to pass a period of solitude is no longer represented. A cultural space existed in most traditional societies for such a period in a person s life and it was seen as necessary in order for the initiate to re-connect with their past and concomitantly with his collective unconscious or humanity s primordial existence.
