Contemporary North American Indigenous Music

Frame Drumming

NAF 2018

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Kâkike

Hopelessly Devoted (feat. Alan DiPerna)

In Harmony, We Journey - The Best of R. Carlos Nakai - The Second 20 Years

Oasis

Grabada en ceremonia de medicina en Pisaq, Cusco en Agosto del 2013 en el templo de Ayahuasca-Wasi. Canción original de Hamilton Dielu.

Letra:

Medicina que trae los cielos desde la floresta a mi corazón
Alumbrando camino trayendo liberación

Doy gracias a todos los seres maestros divinos de redención
Humildad y paciencia enseñan la compasión

Aquí pido por todos los seres desamparados y sin protección
Ofreciendo este canto desde el fondo de mi corazón

medicine songs

Medicina Que Trae Los Cielos - Pisaq Tribe

Flute Duet

Israel Song

Co-Creators:
Alvaro Santamaria - Flute
Emily Andari - Frame Drum, Shaker
Patrick Kiebzak *Momentology - Production, Guitar

Energy:
Primitive - Relating to the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development
Emancipation - Freeing, liberation
Solfeggio Frequency 741 - Awaken The Intuition 
Primitive Emancipation originated as a song on Native American Flute by Alvaro Santamaria. The name signifies how we can liberate ourselves from a early evolutionary phases, to evolve to a higher consciousness; to transcend old paradigms and create new, thriving systems of human design. 

Musical Medicine:
BPM: 98
Time: 6:00
Key: F#
Tuning: Pythagorean Tuning - A=432hz
Chord Progression(s): F# - A - B
Animals/Beings: Human, Medicine People
Elements: Earth, Air 
Chakra: Root
States of Being: Wisdom, Stillness
Platonic Solid: Hexahedron
Direction: South, East, North, West, Center

Notes:
This song contains Solfeggio Frequency 741 and is tuned to Pythagorean tuning; A=432hz. Feel the 14hz difference created by Solfeggio frequency 741 and the A=432 F# played at 727hz. This 14hz difference creates a subtle binaural beat (two frequencies playing side by side to create a brainwave response), which resonates with the brain at the beta state, which is the state the brain operates in when it is alert, active, awake, and thinking.

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Primitive Emancipation (741hz) (feat. Alvaro Santamaria)

Niño lindo es un Aguinaldo o Villancico Venezolano para el niño Jesús, es de un autor anónimo y tambien existen diferentes versiones con mas o menos estrofas. Asi de esta manera la aprendi en la escuela, en esta versión acompañados por Alvaro Saldaña en la flauta transversa. 

Niño Lindo.MP3

Brianna Lea Pruett ~ We Come in All Colors

Vi en todo tu luz es una canción de mi autoria, que aun no ha sido grabada en estudio, pero que formara parte de nuestros próximos proyectos. En esta ocasión acompañados de nuestro querido Alvaro Saldaña en la flauta transversa. 

Vi En Todo Tu Luz

Chakra Breathing Meditations

Breath of the Chakras: Instrumental Version feat. Frame Drums, Tibetan Singing Bowl, Hand Struck Bell and Chimes and Tamboura

Here is it. The 20 minute edition of this song, requested by many of you. I have had feedback from people saying to me that a longer version would be great for those who want to use this song for meditation purposes or to enter into deep relaxation and healing.
This song is in Quechua (the people’s language spoken mainly in the Andes region of South America).
This song is tuned in 432Hz which therefore means that it is mathematically consistent with the universe. The ancient bells from Peru used in this track were already tuned to this frequency and so we therefore tuned all the other instruments to match the 432Hz tuning. Music that is tuned in 432Hz transmits healing energy because it is in exact mathematical frequency and vibration to the universe, as opposed to the 440Hz frequency tuning that is most commonly used today. Music therefore tuned in 432Hz frequency is known to be more relaxing, healing and softer for the human being. 

Hampue Sachamama - Invocating the energy of the snake - Invocación de la energía de la serpiente

Hampue Kenti - Invocating the energy of the hummingbird -  Invocación de la energía del colibrí

Hampue Aquila - Invocating the energy of the eagle -  Invocación de la energía del águila

Hampue Pachamama - Invocating the energy of the mother earth -  Invocación de la energía de la madre tierra

Wiracocha - Father Sky - Padre Cielo

Hatun Sonko - Big Heart - Gran Corazón

Los Q’eros - The Q’eros - Los Q'eros

Munay Sonko - Heart of love - Corazón de Amor

Otorongo - Jaguar - el Jaguar

OEAHO - (20 Min version)

Hand Dance

Pandero

Bendir

Pisaq, Dec 2014 - Full Moon

Kaxinawa - Sacred Valley Tribe

An invocation, an invitation, for the goddess Aphrodite to illuminate our way through passion’s uncertainties. Performed and composed by Bettina Joy de Guzman on Luthieros 9-string chelys lyra, lap harp, Remo 16-inch frame drum, cello, and finger cymbals, chanted in Ancient Greek (Sappho, fragment 1).


Album notes:
A woman sits alone on a dark evening, worn thin by Love’s manipulations. She has ridden out the first cruel enticement of hope, then the delirium of infatuation. And now comes the inevitable dagger of heartbreak.

As she looks back over the emotional storm that has left her drained and shattered, she wonders: Is Love no more than an impersonal force? Or might She be an entity who would sympathize if one prays to her? And if so, how does one pray to such divinity? 

Following instincts she does not understand, she lights a candle. She begins an invocation. 


Ποικιλόθρον᾽ ὰθάνατ᾽ ᾽Αφροδιτα…
δολόπλοκε, λίσσομαί σε
μή μ᾽ ἄσαισι μήτ᾽ ὀνίαισι δάμνα,
πότνια, θῦμον…

ἔλθε μοι καὶ νῦν, χαλεπᾶν δὲ λῦσον
ἐκ μερίμναν ὄσσα δέ μοι τέλεσσαι
θῦμοσ ἰμμέρρει τέλεσον… 


“iridescent- throned, Immortal Aphrodite…
weaver of wiles, I pray you 
That you do not, with pains and with torments 
crush down my heart, o lady...


And come to me now, and release me from cruel cares;
and all that my heart desires to fulfill,
I pray thee, fulfill…”


Her heart beats. Her body sways to a rhythm and dances to a song, as ancient as the grass and the sea.

And from some deep place within herself, a voice hums back. Someone hears. Someone understands.


Album Credits
Sound engineer: Benj Clarke, at The Temple in Long Beach
Photo and design: Claudia Kabisch

Invocation To Aphrodite

Jeff Ball (born August 6, 1966 in Bethesda, Maryland) is a Native American flute player. He found the flute at a Powwow in Baltimore, Maryland in 1991. Although given some basic instruction by a Choctaw man named Wintamer, Ball is largely self-taught. His early inspiration came from R. Carlos Nakai and Douglas Spotted Eagle. In 1997, Ball was signed to the Red Feather Music label based in Arvada, Colorado. Ball's album's have received numerous nominations for the Native American Music Awards, winning the Native Heart award in 2001.[1]
Ball records and travels with several musicians including his brother Randy Ball (bass guitar), Ted Natale (percussion, drum kit, Hang), John Natale (guitar), Barrie McLeod (guitar, piano), Sennen Quigley (guitar, piano), and Greg Dillon (guitar).
Guests on Ball's albums include Welela, Joseph Firecrow, Peter Phippen, Arvel Bird, and Douglas Spotted Eagle, Ron Kravitz.

https://www.facebook.com/Jeff-Ball-Band-121501851212428/

Dancing with the Wind (Limited release demo cassette)
Mixed-Blood
Reverence
Windtamer
Cedar Moon (2001 NAMA Winner Native Heart)
Prairie Runner
Songs of Winter
Return to Balance
The Shape of Light (2007 ISMA Winner Best Flute Album)[2]
Ghost Town (Released March 28, 2009.)
Secrets of a Crow

Jeff Ball (official website)
Jeff Ball at Reverb Nation (Reverb Nation Page)

Secrets of a Crow

Nevermore

Lightning Drum

This is a sample from one of the first pieces that I composed, produced and recorded by myself (2008), INJOY.......

Raw Honey

War Club

Redfoot (feat. Fawn Wood)

Colin Farish is a composer and pianist fluent in many diverse musical languages. The wide scope of his influences are represented in his forty album discography of original music; including sixteen ensemble recordings, ten albums of his solo piano compositions, three albums of jazz standards and two musicals. For fifteen years Colin owned and operated Stillwater Sound recording studios.  For eight of those years his studio was located in the Presidio Chapel of San Francisco where he recorded numerous CDs and produced dozens of concert events. 