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Healing Songs
In the dynamic Native American culture, new expressions
are growing from the time-honored traditions. These albums feature music emphasizing the evocative power of the human voice in various settings - as solos, in harmonized arrangements, or with instrumental accompaniment.
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Primeaux & Mike with Joe Jakob - Sacred Path (CR-6306)
Healing songs are a newer style of soothing harmonized chanting from the Native American Church (or Peyote Church) without the accompaniment of the peyote water-drum or rattle and are meant to facilitate meditation and prayer and provide comfort and peace for the singers and listeners. This recording combines the inspiring sound of healing chants sung by Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike with a backdrop of ambient electronic textures and sweeping atmospherics. The result is a innovative and reverent presentation of chants from the time-honored Native American Church tradition.
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Jimmy Knight, Jr. - Navajo Healing Songs (CR-6330)
Healing songs are a newer style of singing from the Native American Church (or Peyote Church) without the accompaniment of the peyote water-drum or gourd-rattle and are meant to facilitate mediation and prayer and provide comfort and peace for the singers and listeners. This recording features noted Navajo (Dine') peyote singer Jimmy Knight Jr. in this soothing collection of Navajo healing songs in the Native American Church tradition.
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Eli Secody - The Following Generation (CR-6348)
The sound of a solo voice soothes and captivates the listener in this collection of Navajo prayer songs. In the time-honored Native American Church traditions of the Southwest, Eli Secody offers an album of healing and peace.
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Kevin Yazzie - Faith (CR-6444)
With lush multi-part vocal harmonies, soothing melodies, and the quiet energy of gourd and water drum, Kevin Yazzie (Dine) performs songs of healing and prayer in an inspirational expression of faith in the Native American Church.
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Louie Gonnie - Songs of the Sacred Circle (CR-6446)
Dine songwriter and singer, Louie Gonnie illuminates the harmony of the spirit in this collection of Peyote songs. Anchored by gourd drum and sustained by waves of his flowing vocals, Gonnie leads an inner voyage from dreams to actuality, from earth to sky and from the past to eternity.
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Primeaux, Mike & Attson - Healing & Peyote Songs (CR-16302)
Traditional peyote chants with drum and rattle accompaniment are followed by "healing songs," a newer style of harmonized chanting in Sioux and Navajo without percussion to facilitate meditation. With Verdell Primeaux, Johnny Mike and Robert Attson.
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Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike - Walk In Beauty (CR-16304)
These healing songs in Sioux and Navajo are a newer style of soothing harmonized chants from the Native American Church. These songs are meant to provide spiritual peace to the listener. CD Review called this album, "...gorgeously pacific..." A 1996 NAIRD Awards finalist.
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