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Think Global: Native America is a celebration of the inspirational culture of North America's first peoples and explores the powerful influence of traditional pow wows, sun dances and ceremonial gatherings alongside the sublime flute playing of Carlos Nakai, and the unforgettable voice of the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie.

R. Carlos Nakai is the world's leading performer of the Native American flute. He has released more than thirty-five albums and as well as traditional flute playing, Nakai has also explored New Age, world-beat jazz and classical musical settings. On 'Lapule', he and Native Hawaiian slack-key guitar master Keola Beamer beautifully fuse regional US music forms. Born on a Cree reservation and adopted by a white couple, Buffy Sainte-Marie rose to fame as part of the Greenwich Village folk revival scene. As a college student in the early 1960s, Buffy became known as a writer of protest songs and love songs, many of which became huge hits, performed by the likes of Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin.

Joanne Shenandoah is an Iroquois singer and acoustic guitarist. Her music is a mixture of traditional songs and melodies with a blend of traditional and contemporary instrumentation and she has won a multitude of awards, including 'Artist of the Year' at the Native American Music Awards. Robert Tree Cody is a leading flute player who performs regularly at powwows across the USA as well as touring internationally. On 'Buffalo Prayer Song', Cody and Hovia Edwards – a young Native flute player – celebrate one of the most important animals to the Sioux. Thunder Hill has emerged as one of the greatest contemporary powwow groups and 'Contest Song' is a roaring powwow chant showcasing many of the best singers of the southern Plains.

Peyote songs, accompanied by rattle and water drum, have long been a part of southwestern Native religious ceremonies and this album features Johnny Mike and Wahancanka, two highly respected peyote singers. Blackfire play both Ramones-inspired rock and roll and traditional Navajo music and 'American Indian Movement Song' celebrates the Native organisation that fought the US government over discrimination and treaty rights.

Compiled by journalist and author Garth Cartwright, this album is a fascinating glimpse of Native music-making as a ceremonial form as at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Native American music reaches towards ever greater achievements.

Think Global: Native America has been produced in collaboration with Oxfam.

'Most appealing,' Songlines

Track Listing :

Think Global - Native America
01 - Blackfire - American Indian Movement Song
02 - R. Carlos Nakai - Song For The Morning Star
03 - Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cho Cho Fire
04 - Radmilla Cody - Grandmother
05 - Alex E. Smith, Cheevers Toppah And Nitanis 'Kit' Landry - Saturday Night
06 - Walela - The Whippoorwill
07 - Louie Gonnie - Water, The Rain And The Oceans of Time
08 - Johnny Mike - Four Harmonized Peyote Songs
09 - Robert Tree Cody and Hovia Edwards - Buffalo Prayer Song
10 - R. Carlos Nakaiwith Keola Beamer - Lapule
11 - Ed Lee Natay - Hopi Harvest Dance
12 - Wahancanka - Encouragement Pipe Song
13 - Thunder Hill - Contest Song
14 - Joanne Shenandoah - I Am Your Friend

Music Style(s)
North American

Age Suitability
Teen , Young Adult , Thirty-Something , Young At Heart

Ethics
Supports Charity , Ethically Produced

Made In EU


For a free zip file containing 30 second samples of all tracks
and a pdf booklet - please click on the CD image below
Think Global - Native America CD

Think Global - Native America CD

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    Description

    Think Global: Native America is a celebration of the inspirational culture of North America's first peoples and explores the powerful influence of traditional pow wows, sun dances and ceremonial gatherings alongside the sublime flute playing of Carlos Nakai, and the unforgettable voice of the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie.

    R. Carlos Nakai is the world's leading performer of the Native American flute. He has released more than thirty-five albums and as well as traditional flute playing, Nakai has also explored New Age, world-beat jazz and classical musical settings. On 'Lapule', he and Native Hawaiian slack-key guitar master Keola Beamer beautifully fuse regional US music forms. Born on a Cree reservation and adopted by a white couple, Buffy Sainte-Marie rose to fame as part of the Greenwich Village folk revival scene. As a college student in the early 1960s, Buffy became known as a writer of protest songs and love songs, many of which became huge hits, performed by the likes of Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin.

    Joanne Shenandoah is an Iroquois singer and acoustic guitarist. Her music is a mixture of traditional songs and melodies with a blend of traditional and contemporary instrumentation and she has won a multitude of awards, including 'Artist of the Year' at the Native American Music Awards. Robert Tree Cody is a leading flute player who performs regularly at powwows across the USA as well as touring internationally. On 'Buffalo Prayer Song', Cody and Hovia Edwards – a young Native flute player – celebrate one of the most important animals to the Sioux. Thunder Hill has emerged as one of the greatest contemporary powwow groups and 'Contest Song' is a roaring powwow chant showcasing many of the best singers of the southern Plains.

    Peyote songs, accompanied by rattle and water drum, have long been a part of southwestern Native religious ceremonies and this album features Johnny Mike and Wahancanka, two highly respected peyote singers. Blackfire play both Ramones-inspired rock and roll and traditional Navajo music and 'American Indian Movement Song' celebrates the Native organisation that fought the US government over discrimination and treaty rights.

    Compiled by journalist and author Garth Cartwright, this album is a fascinating glimpse of Native music-making as a ceremonial form as at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Native American music reaches towards ever greater achievements.

    Think Global: Native America has been produced in collaboration with Oxfam.

    'Most appealing,' Songlines

    Track Listing :

    Think Global - Native America
    01 - Blackfire - American Indian Movement Song
    02 - R. Carlos Nakai - Song For The Morning Star
    03 - Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cho Cho Fire
    04 - Radmilla Cody - Grandmother
    05 - Alex E. Smith, Cheevers Toppah And Nitanis 'Kit' Landry - Saturday Night
    06 - Walela - The Whippoorwill
    07 - Louie Gonnie - Water, The Rain And The Oceans of Time
    08 - Johnny Mike - Four Harmonized Peyote Songs
    09 - Robert Tree Cody and Hovia Edwards - Buffalo Prayer Song
    10 - R. Carlos Nakaiwith Keola Beamer - Lapule
    11 - Ed Lee Natay - Hopi Harvest Dance
    12 - Wahancanka - Encouragement Pipe Song
    13 - Thunder Hill - Contest Song
    14 - Joanne Shenandoah - I Am Your Friend

    Music Style(s)
    North American

    Age Suitability
    Teen , Young Adult , Thirty-Something , Young At Heart

    Ethics
    Supports Charity , Ethically Produced

    Made In EU


    For a free zip file containing 30 second samples of all tracks
    and a pdf booklet - please click on the CD image below
    Think Global - Native America CD

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