Native American Music

[I, Brian]

I have a few "Rough Guide" to world music CDs, and rediscovered that I've got one on Native American music.

There's quite an eclectic mix of traidtional, electronic - even rap in one instance.

However, just in case it's relevant I thought I'd pass on the name of the artists who seem to be more focussed on the traditional music - in case anyone is trying to trak down some traditional sounding Native American music:

Chester Mahooty
Blackstone Singers
Black Lodge Singers

I could only find the third group on Amazon. There are also some interesting free clips to listen to when you visit some of the CD pages.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...837336-7849403

For example:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music


PS - these are not affiliate links

[sjr]

yes I really got into Drumming after reading Chief Seattle's Lament in,"The Power Of Myth" actually brought tears

Originally Posted by I, Brian

I have a few "Rough Guide" to world music CDs, and rediscovered that I've got one on Native American music.

There's quite an eclectic mix of traidtional, electronic - even rap in one instance.

However, just in case it's relevant I thought I'd pass on the name of the artists who seem to be more focussed on the traditional music - in case anyone is trying to trak down some traditional sounding Native American music:

Chester Mahooty
Blackstone Singers
Black Lodge Singers

I could only find the third group on Amazon. There are also some interesting free clips to listen to when you visit some of the CD pages.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...837336-7849403

For example:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music


PS - these are not affiliate links

[BluejayWay]

Music for The Native Americans, Robbie Robertson (of the Band) and the Red Road Ensemble, is an essential disc for anyone interested in modern American Indian music--profoundly moving music. "Ghost Dance" never fails to move me to tears.

Crow has brought the message
to the children of the sun
for the return of the buffalo
and for a better day to come

You can kill my body
You can damn my soul
for not believing in your god
and some world down below

You don't stand a chance
against my prayers
You don't stand a chance
against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
but we shall live again,
we shall live again

My sister above
She has red paint
She died at Wounded Knee
like a later day saint

You got the big drum in the distance
blackbird in the sky
That's the sound that you hear
when the buffalo cry

You don't stand a chance
against my prayers
You don't stand a chance
against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
but we shall live again,
we shall live again

Crazy Horse was a mystic
He knew the secret of the trance
And Sitting Bull the great apostle
of the Ghost Dance

Come on Comanche
Come on Blackfoot
Come on Shoshone
Come on Cheyenne

We shall live again

Come on Arapaho
Come on Cherokee
Come on Paiute
Come on Sioux

We shall live again

Honor the Earth Powwow: Songs of the Great Lakes Indians, a release from Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart's great The World series, is unadulterated, live, Indian drumming from several American Midwest Indian "drums", groups performing traditional drumming and singing as a sacred music.
If one is lucky enough to live near the site of an annual powwow open to the public, this is the powerful, transcendent music you would hear--

[I, Brian]

Good call BlueJayway - some interesting pieces there.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Has anybody here seen the program Spirit written by Peter Buffett? It was a story of a young man's journey into rediscovering his Native American roots, and it had quite a bit of drumming and a Native American flute player (I can't quite remember his name, but his music is interesting to listen to. I feel so much like a .) The program was filmed in Wisconsin with both Broadway-style and Native dancers.

There is a cd that contains the music from the performance.
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[juantoo3]

Ulali is the female Native American group that did the title and end tracks for the movie "Smoke Signals." Absolutely amazing vocals, and the lyrics to "All My Relations" is moving and profound.

Ulali female a cappella vocal group

A l l M y R e l a t i o n s
written by Pura Fe

To our Elders who teach us of our creation and our past,
So we may preserve Mother Earth for ancestors yet to come:
We are the Land.
This is dedicated to our relatives before us thousands of years ago
And to the one hundred and fifty million who were exterminated across the western hemisphere
In the first four hundred years time starting in 1492.
To those who have kept their homelands,
And the nations extinct due to mass slaughter, slavery, deportation and disease unknown to them,
And to the ones who are subjected to the same treatment today.
To the ones who survived the relocation,
And the ones who died along the way.
To those who carried on traditions,
And live strong among their people.
To those who left their communities, by force or by choice,
And for generations who no longer know who they are.
To those who search and never find.
To those that turn away from the so called non accepted.
To those that bring us together,
And to those living outside, keeping touch, the voice for many.
To those who make it back,
To live and fight, the struggles of their people.
To those who gave up,
And those who do not care.
To those who abused themselves and others,
And those who revive again.
To those who are physically, mentally or spiritually incapable,
By accident or by birth.
To those who seek strength in our spirituality,
In ways of one and those who exploit it, even our own.
To those who fall for the lies,
And join the dividing lines that keep us fighting amongst each other.
To the outsiders who step in for good or for bad
And to those of us who don't know better.
To the leaders and prisoners of war,
Politics, crime, race, and religion, innocent or guilty.
To the young, the old, the living, and the dead,
To our brothers and sisters.
And all living things across Mother Earth,
And her beauty we have destroyed.
And denied the honor that the Creator has given each individual,
The truth that lies in our hearts,
All My Relations.

http://www.brdwyumc.org/files/Bulletin_111107.pdf

[17th Angel]

We're going with native American music for our wedding... Vicky saw some Indians playing in the main street in town and they had windpipes and so on!! And we're going with that

[c0de]

YouTube - Tool Lipan Conjuring

[xcvbxcvb]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

I could only find the third group on Amazon.

I see that this is an old post, but would like to say that the Black Lodge Singers have a myspace page and can also be found on youtube.

[Garnet]

I love Robert Mirabal, who does traditional music & updated versions of traditional music.

YouTube - Robert Mirabal: Little indians

I also like Carlos Nakai (a traditional flute player), & Joanne Shenandoah.

I like Walela (Rita Coolidge is a member). here's Walela's Cherokee-language version of "Amazing Grace":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqkpYgvIBtU