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Native America Calling: Music From Indian Country

Trikont

US0402

  • Released: May 16, 2010

Since people first appeared on Turtle Island the land has echoed with music. Animated by the spirit of their surroundings, the land’s first people honored with song each living creature, each vital aspect of life. Medicine men and women used music to heal; song and dance proceeded the hunt or battle; pounding drums and chanting voices fused into a magical vibration that expressed the nature of the land. Messages woven into song united generations and sustained the indigenous community’s balance with the earth.

The Europeans destroyed that balance. As conquerors they ate up large tracts of Turtle Island, slaughtering the land’s first peoples. Each tribe’s bloody dispersal marked the silent undoing of another oral culture. Generations of Indians born into the defeated surroundings found in the few remaining traditional songs a way to retrieve old feelings, old knowledge. Remarkably, despite decades upon decades of subjugation, the songs that survived preserved an amazing store of spiritual wealth. Combined with the melodies, rhythms and instruments of the non-Indians, Native American music evolved in new directions.

The compilation NATIVE AMERICA CALLING is an anthology flavored by the influences of folk, country, rock, blues, jazz, reggae, disco and hip hop. The final song list reflects not the wide range of artists we originally planned. Hopefully a Volume 2 will follow.

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