Based in Mexico City.Propiedades Ocultas is an independent research and publishing project exploring human rituals through sound, music, objects, images and archival material.
I. The Sound of Ritual.- Propiedades Ocultas Record Collection The pot is a god. The winnowing fan is a god. The stone in the street is a god. The comb is a god. The bowstring is also a god. The bushel is a god and the spouted cup is a god. Gods, gods, there are so many there’s no place left for a foot.- Bavasanna
PO. 001 CONJURA Ediciones Materiales
Cassette, edition of 50
Our debut release CONJURA collects recordings from two unidentified open-reel tapes dated 1970–71, found more than fifty years later at a tianguis in Mexico City. Nothing is known of their origin, the recordist, or the voices they hold