[.ca] Weaving the Strands

From Amazon.com:
Chosen from a dozen recent recordings by contemporary Native American women artists, the music of Weaving the Strands is a banquet of spirited sustenance, reflecting the various passages, celebrations, and phases of feminine life. There are call and response and group chants, songs of meditation, worship, and joyous revelry as interpreted by women from tribes including Chippewa, Mestizo, Cherokee, and Muscogee. New listeners of Native American music may well be surprised by the marriage of anticipated flute, drum, and chant, and chant with plugged-in jazz guitar and country fiddle. Liner notes wisely provide information on the artists and the original recordings from whence their contributions come. Among the most well known in the group, Navajo songmaker Sharon Burch renders two of the most moving compositions, the reflective "I Walk Alone" and "Sacred Wind," featuring an extraordinary fiddle line twining round her expressively centered vocal. --Paige La Grone

Wonderfully ecletic collection.:
An excellent sample of songs from the North American continent. The CD contains some excellent tracks and is a very good starting point from which albums of the artists featured here can then be purchased, for example Sharon Burch, Walela and Joanne Shenandoah. However the album works well as a collection in its own right with a suitably varied colection of cntemporary North American women artists. A CD that will bring joy to the ear from the sheer beauty of the music.

This is the Song of Sanctuary Gifted to our Souls:
Short and sweet. I have never heard a collection of music in an unfamiliar tongue move me to the edge of awe. The voices ring with concord and harmony. They are not schooled in the institutional sense. They are educated to hear and transpose the content of Great Beauty and Wisdom to the minds of those less privilaged: those of us, native and otherwise, who are unable to access their world, unable to find the way home. These are the voices of women who nurture, support and sustain individually and collectivly the heart of Women's traditional and perhaps contemporary roles within Native American culture. They come from various backgrounds,nations and locales but they come with one intent. They teach us why song is so very sacred, so very powerful among the people. They share their joy, beauty, simplicity, strength and courage. I thank all the participants for gifting me this music. It has restored a large part of my spirit. Listen for yourself. If you share a drop of our blood, your heart should hear it's home.

Nice for more poppy fans:
This is nice music. It unfortunately did not suit what I was looking for though. I was looking for more authentic native music. This contains a few authentic native songs but most are more pop than anything else. The music is still nice, as I said, if you are looking for pop. I still do not regret the buying of this cd because it made me discover one of the most beautiful tunes I ever heard. Ulali. It`s a trio. Incredibly intense and magical and beautiful and strong. Them I will get a cd of.

Fantastic!:
I purchased this Cd with the hopes of hearing the Native American laguages spoken or in this case sung. This is a great Cd. I have learned the words and now sing along. I only wish that they had provided a translation page so that I knew what I was singing. This is a must have for anyone that loves native music or just loves great music.

Beautiful, Haunting, Inspirational:
I purchased this CD for myself and enjoy it more each time it is played. I own many CD's of various Native American drumming groups, flutes, and singers, this has to be one of the best. Many languages, styles and much beauty are contained in this creation of songs from popular Native American women. A work of art and a gift from Spirit.

• Sacred Wind
• Mahk Jchi
• Wash Your Spirit Clean
• Evening Stars
• Kanekotsky ;tha?
• Winds of Change
• Earth Prayers
• Woman's Dance
• For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
• Wilma Mankiller's Song
• I Walk Alone
• Forgotten Yesterday
• Creator's Song