Год|Year: 2008
Жанр| Genre: World music, New age
Страна| Country: Native American
Качество| Quality: 256 kbps
Размер| Size: 98 Mb

Track List

01. Come To Me Great Mystery — Thirza Defoe
02. Hear My Prayer — Doug Foote
03. Hue Hue — Lorain Fox
04. Beauty Way — Allen Mose
05. Calling To The People — Thirza Defoe
06. I Am The Beginning And The End — Dorothy Tsatoke
07. Prayer From Above, A — Doug Foote
08. Kaio Kaio — Lorain Fox

With its thunderous drums and high-pitched chants, Native American pow-wow music is intense enough to scare away the uninitiated. Yet there are also gentle, soothing, and healing songs in the Native American tradition, and it's this type of ... Full Descriptionmaterial that is the focus of COME TO ME GREAT MYSTERY. With Native American artists Doug Foote, Lorain Fox, Thirza Defoe, and others on board, this compilation is filled with prayers, invocations, and songs that sound like blessings and benedictions. The presence of synthesizers and contemporary production flourishes may irk hardcore traditionalists, but these additions will make the album accessible to fans of relaxing New Age music.

Come to Me Great Mystery is a collection of traditional Native American songs intended to heal the body and spirit.

We greet the sacred bear
as it approaches to lead us
into the cave of our heart.

Coming from Ojibway, Lakota, Inca, Navajo, Algonquin, Kowa, and Blackfeet traditions, each song has a profound depth and beauty which invokes a compassionate and mystical presence with instrumentation (flutes, drums, percussion textures, birdsong, etc.) by Grammy-winning producer Tom Wasinger. As with his ground breaking World Music and Native American Lullaby collections, he works with a talented and experienced cast of Native American singers including Thirza Defoe, Doug Foote, Lorain Fox, Allen Mose, and Dorothy Tsatoke. Together they create a healing sound that can truly touch the human spirit.

Describing her song, “Hue Hue” from the Inca tradition, Lorain Fox says “This song honors the four directions, then honors the above, the below and then leads one into their heart, the seventh direction.”

On Mother Earth
shall be there beauty
Songs, prayers, and good thoughts
With this shall there be beauty
on Mother Earth
—Navajo

The reverence for Mother Earth is palpable in this quietly moving album.