Weaving the Strands

1. Sacred Wind - Sharon Burch

2. Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song) - Ulali

3. Wash Your Spirit Clean - Walela

4. Evening Stars - Alice Gomez

5. Kanekotsy ; Tha? - Joanne Shenandoah

6. Winds of Change - Mary Youngblood

7. Earth Prayer - Alice Gomez

8. Woman's Dance - Joanne Shenandoah

9. For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash - Joy Harjo

10. Wilma Mankiller's Song - The Mankillers

11. I Walk Alone - Sharon Burch

12. Forgotten Yesterday

13. Creator's Song - Joanne Shenandoah

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
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 --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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

Amazon.com

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.

Average customer rating:

BUY THIS CD!!!
Shine a black light on your smile.

Five Months Late

Manufacturer: Wicked City
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007MEKJ
Release Date: 2002-08-25

Tracks:

Should Have Known
Away
Waiting For You
To Say Goodnight
1,000 Phrases
Asleeping & Dreaming
Five Months Late
Replacement
Nineveh
1,000 Phrases (Live)
This Memory (Live)
Waiting For You (Live)
Asleeping & Dreaming (live)

Customer Reviews:

BUY THIS CD!!!.......2003-01-04

These guys are one of the best local bands around!!! I bought this cd and listened to it for a few weeks straight! IT IS AN AWSOME BUY!!!

Shine a black light on your smile........2003-01-03

That's what this album makes me think of. The playing and arrangments scream good-time rock and roll, but the poetry of Mssr. Carples would suggest otherwise. It's a mixture that resonates well with me. I hear their old drummer ain't half bad either. 12th Hour matures a few light years in mere weeks (most bands take years to develop like this), so if this is their third release, look out for Album No. 5 - it will alter your perception of the working band in the early twenty-first century. Much like Interpol, Placebo, The Strokes and the stronger bands of recent memory, this band pinches and borrows from every band they've ever loved and somehow come out with a finished product that speaks it's own truth with this new compelling language they've forged from the melodies of their childhood. To be so young and to project so far ahead - this is what keeps music interesting. If it is all just one long song, these guys are the hook.
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2 jan 03

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