COSMOS: Night of the Sky-River is a ceremonial, drum-driven vision-quest told as one long night. A circle of young warriors gathers at the village fire and, under the guidance of a shaman, is led into a shared cosmic journey.

Powwow-style big drum, water drums, frame drums, foot-stomp rhythms, rattles, chanting on open vocables, and a lone wooden flute carry the story from first sparks of flame to the pale light of dawn. Each track is a different phase of the initiation: gathering, trance, the sky opening, crossing a star-river, trials among constellations, meeting the ancestors, claiming a steady warrior heart, and returning to the fire changed.

By the end of Sun on New Faces, the night feels like an epic myth: boys went out under the stars and came home as men, with the drumming as the bridge between earth and sky.

Shaman Steps into the Smoke

Drum That Opens the Sky

Council of Ancestors

Heart of the Warrior

Eyes Open in the Dark Above

Breath Before the Chant

Smoke and Morning

Gift of the Sky-River

Crossing the Sky-River

Sun on New Faces

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