Taos Tales

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With Taos Tales, Robert Mirabal aurally gives form, function, and sacred breath to the commanding vision and essence of the magnificent Taos Valley. Flute, strings, and keyboard reflect the wide blue sky stretching over the high road into the town below. Percussion and samples capture the essence of the wind's spirit as it sculpts and buffets the rain-splashed earth. An atmospheric odyssey of history and myth, Taos Tales is splendid, humble, and vital. --Paige La Grone

Tracks:

Painted Caves
Friends
Popay Runner
Hunting Party
Skinwalker's Moon
Onate
Bataan Death March
Ee-You-Oo
Flute Song
The Courtship Of Starboy
Acid Rain Dance
Day Of The Dead
Quiet Season

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With Taos Tales, Robert Mirabal aurally gives form, function, and sacred breath to the commanding vision and essence of the magnificent Taos Valley. Flute, strings, and keyboard reflect the wide blue sky stretching over the high road into the town below. Percussion and samples capture the essence of the wind's spirit as it sculpts and buffets the rain-splashed earth. An atmospheric odyssey of history and myth, Taos Tales is splendid, humble, and vital. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

Taos Tales.......2006-03-15

Robert Mirabal is an exceptional artist. The stories he tells in his music and songs are wonderfully portrayed. The tunes that he creates is very relaxing and sothing.

dissapointing cd.......2002-05-02

My first contact with Mirabal's performance is not good. The first track on this CD is very good, but then comest the bad rest. Second track is actually promising but spoiled by the vocal. Some other tracks resemble tre native Indians' tribal chanting. Uneven CD, don't know if it was supposed to be new age or world music or whatever.

Mirabal shows his soul on this album.......2001-12-04

Mirabal seems to get more in touch with his roots on this album. The album gives the feeling of visiting Taos Pueblo and hearing some of the old stories from his people. He sings parts in Tiwa, his native tongue, and combined with the music he honors his tribe and his heritage. For me, this is Mirabal showing what is deep inside his heart.

Beautiful and haunting.......2001-04-09

This CD was my very first exposure to Robert Mirabal about a year ago. It was recommended to me by a store clerk in Albuquerque New Mexico and it has since become my favorite piece of music. I also have all of Robert's other CD's, each one is beautiful in its own way. Taos Tales are the stories Robert grew up listening to at his home on the pueblo in Taos, New Mexico, where he still lives today. The music is haunting and beautiful and "Popay Runner" in particular touches me inside in ways I cannot fully express or even understand. Although only one song, "Skinwalker's Moon" is in english, my heart still understands the rest of the songs, even though my brain doesn't know the words..... does that make any sense? If you give this CD a chance, you will understand what I mean. Robert has the extraordinary ability to reach out and touch your soul and move you in unexplainable ways.... IF you let him. Open your heart when you put this CD on, and Robert will open your soul.

Pretentious Garbage.......2001-03-12

I'm going to ignore for the moment the fact that Mirabel looks like a Native-American Fabio on his album, and instead focus on the content. This disc makes me feel like I'm being sold a sanitized tour of this particular culture. It seems completely grounded in jazz/new age, and the only thing that makes it tribal is the occasional and brief nods toward tribal chant. There is a nice flute that gets used throughout, but this seems like such overuse as to be gimmicky. It seems that aside from the flute, the whole Native American angle is just a selling point. The entire disc is completely grounded in Western music, and strikes me as the type of music I hear non-Native Americans produce when they want to immerse themselves in a different culture. The image that one gets from reading the liner notes and listening to the album is that we are basically visitors in a land where the old gods are still alive and the place is populated by noble savages. Of course, all the people look appropriately tribal despite the current date, and all the women seem to have discovered depilatories. And in the center of all this, like some god of romance, stands Mirabal. The entire thing seems to have the authenticity of a Las Vegas production. However, giving the disc its proper dues, without the packaging this is nice fusion jazz with some annoying tribal chants thrown in every so often. So if you like the pan flute jazz they play at the Cannery in San Francisco, give this a listen. Just don't expect to find music that has sprung out of both the European and Native traditions. But if you're the type that goes to Hawaii and expects ALL the residents to dress in grass skirts, or you think that the group that did the music for Titanic (not Celene Dion) plays real Celtic music, then this is the album you've been waiting for.

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