The Indigenous People of North America

From the traditional pow wow to the Hopi prophecies in the cinematic tone poem Koyaanisqatsi, celebrate indigenous North America this week in Global Sounds with artists featured in The Rough Guide to Native America  including Dorothy Tsatoke, Blackfire, Carlos Nakai and Keola Beamer, Pima Express, Ashok and Pura Fé.

Album details...
Rough Guide to Native America  (World Music 331288) + Bonus CD Pura Fé: Full Moon Rising
also.... Koyaanisqatsi - Music by Philip Glass  (Nonesuch 7559-79506)

Tracks featured...
GLASS: Koyaanisqatsi - Philip Glass Ensemble, Albert de Ruiter (bass)
WASINGER: I Am The Beginning And The End - Dorothy Tsatoke (voice)
BLACKFIRE: American Indian Movement Song – Blackfire
NAKAI/BEAMER: The Shark - R.Carlos Nakai (native American flute), Keola Beamer (slack-key guitar)
FÉ: Great Grandpah’s Banjo - Pura Fé
FÉ: Red, Black on Blues - Pura Fé
PIMA EXPRESS: Crazy Spinning Chicken - Pima Express
ASHOK: A Shifting Wind in the Breath of Life – Ashok
FÉ: Condor meets the Eagle - Pura Fé, Kanatan Aski
GLASS: Prophecies, excerpt - Philip Glass Ensemble, Albert de Ruiter (bass)