Weaving The Strands: Music By Contemporary Native American Women

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Chosen from a dozen recent recordings by contemporary Native American women artists, the music of Weaving the Strands is a banquet of spirited sustenance, reflecting the various passages, celebrations, and phases of feminine life. There are call and response and group chants, songs of meditation, worship, and joyous revelry as interpreted by women from tribes including Chippewa, Mestizo, Cherokee, and Muscogee. New listeners of Native American music may well be surprised by the marriage of anticipated flute, drum, and chant, and chant with plugged-in jazz guitar and country fiddle. Liner notes wisely provide information on the artists and the original recordings from whence their contributions come. Among the most well known in the group, Navajo songmaker Sharon Burch renders two of the most moving compositions, the reflective "I Walk Alone" and "Sacred Wind," featuring an extraordinary fiddle line twining round her expressively centered vocal. --Paige La Grone

Product Description
"Weaving the Strands" is an exclusive music compilation by contemporary Native American women featuring some of the most talented Native American women artists performing today. This collection is dedicated to contemporary Native American women artists whose style, energy and spirit have added a beautiful dimension to this increasingly popular genre of music.

Tracks:

Sacred Wind
Mahk Jchi
Wash Your Spirit Clean
Evening Stars
Kanekotsky ;tha?
Winds of Change
Earth Prayers
Woman's Dance
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
Wilma Mankiller's Song
I Walk Alone
Forgotten Yesterday
Creator's Song

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Chosen from a dozen recent recordings by contemporary Native American women artists, the music of Weaving the Strands is a banquet of spirited sustenance, reflecting the various passages, celebrations, and phases of feminine life. There are call and response and group chants, songs of meditation, worship, and joyous revelry as interpreted by women from tribes including Chippewa, Mestizo, Cherokee, and Muscogee. New listeners of Native American music may well be surprised by the marriage of anticipated flute, drum, and chant, and chant with plugged-in jazz guitar and country fiddle. Liner notes wisely provide information on the artists and the original recordings from whence their contributions come. Among the most well known in the group, Navajo songmaker Sharon Burch renders two of the most moving compositions, the reflective "I Walk Alone" and "Sacred Wind," featuring an extraordinary fiddle line twining round her expressively centered vocal. --Paige La Grone

Album Description

"Weaving the Strands" is an exclusive music compilation by contemporary Native American women featuring some of the most talented Native American women artists performing today. This collection is dedicated to contemporary Native American women artists whose style, energy and spirit have added a beautiful dimension to this increasingly popular genre of music.

Customer Reviews:

Constantly on my top 10 list.......2006-07-21

If I were stranded on a turtle island and I could only bring along 10 cds, this would be on my list. Whomever chose the songs that ended up on this collection is also welcome on my island. :)

The music is fairly far reaching in its scope with the possible exception of all the vocalists being female. From some traditional songs with only a drum accompanyment to contemporary poetry atop music, this CD has burned itself into my own mind with its lyrical and intriguing music.

I'm not all about native American music. Still, this CD makes me want to hear more. Simply stated, it is excellent.

Fantastic!.......2004-03-19

I purchased this Cd with the hopes of hearing the Native American laguages spoken or in this case sung. This is a great Cd. I have learned the words and now sing along. I only wish that they had provided a translation page so that I knew what I was singing. This is a must have for anyone that loves native music or just loves great music.

Wonderfully ecletic collection........2003-01-30

An excellent sample of songs from the North American continent.
The CD contains some excellent tracks and is a very good starting point from which albums of the artists featured here can then be purchased, for example Sharon Burch, Walela and Joanne Shenandoah.
However the album works well as a collection in its own right with a suitably varied colection of cntemporary North American women artists.
A CD that will bring joy to the ear from the sheer beauty of the music.

Nice for more poppy fans.......2002-11-14

This is nice music. It unfortunately did not suit what I was looking for though. I was looking for more authentic native music. This contains a few authentic native songs but most are more pop than anything else. The music is still nice, as I said, if you are looking for pop. I still do not regret the buying of this cd because it made me discover one of the most beautiful tunes I ever heard. Ulali. It`s a trio. Incredibly intense and magical and beautiful and strong. Them I will get a cd of.

Beautiful, Haunting, Inspirational.......2000-12-19

I purchased this CD for myself and enjoy it more each time it is played. I own many CD's of various Native American drumming groups, flutes, and singers, this has to be one of the best. Many languages, styles and much beauty are contained in this creation of songs from popular Native American women. A work of art and a gift from Spirit.

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