Recorded outdoors at Sitting Bull's camp on the
Standing Rock Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, this album has been
described as "the ultimate presentation of American Indian flute,
heard as it first was among the birds, wind, and waters of the
Dakotas."On the back
cover of the CD is a photo of Kevin playing the flute before a
microphone on a gravel bar of the Grand River where the Hunkpapa's great
leader spent so many years and where the People prospered for
generations. The blending of Kevin's music with river sounds and birds
answering the melodies with songs of their own transports listeners to
centuries past, while invoking the power of a vital, living and
expanding tradition. Many of the selections were learned from field
recordings produced on wax cylinders by ethnomusicologist Frances
Densmore in the early 20th century, preserving the voices and poetry of
traditional Lakota singers.
Recorded outdoors at Sitting Bull's camp on the
Standing Rock Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, this album has been
described as "the ultimate presentation of American Indian flute,
heard as it first was among the birds, wind, and waters of the
Dakotas." On the back
cover of the CD is a photo of Kevin playing the flute before a
microphone on a gravel bar of the Grand River where the Hunkpapa's great
leader spent so many years and where the People prospered for
generations. The blending of Kevin's music with river sounds and birds
answering the melodies with songs of their own transports listeners to
centuries past, while invoking the power of a vital, living and
expanding tradition. Many of the selections were learned from field
recordings produced on wax cylinders by ethnomusicologist Frances
Densmore in the early 20th century, preserving the voices and poetry of
traditional Lakota singers.
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