America - Wind Riders (The Renaissance Of The Native American Flute) - Mesa Music Consort/Native Flute Ensemble

Advantages: Spiritual ,deep, catchy, musically great
Disadvantages: Some may be deterred by the more traditional elements of the album

...Background ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Before anybody reads and rates this review, I want to stress that this review is for The Red Road album by Bill Miller, and not the live recording. Unfortunately The Red Road was not available to review so this had to suffice. With that being said on with the review. Bill Miller is a native American singer/song writer of some excellence. Born in 1955 his native name is Fush-Ya Heay Aka, meaning bird song. He is from the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican tribe. On February 13th 2005 Bill won a Grammy for best native American music, a fitting accolade showing his tenacity and skill for producing quality music recordings. Bill currently has 15 albums under is belt and The Red Road is his sixth album and follows the Reservation Road- live album. Album Specifications ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Label: Warner Western Producer: Richard... Read review

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Advantages: Not bad
Disadvantages: Not special

...was asked to compose music, as he had done for all other Spielberg movies since 1974. The score, however, though it is by far not bad, lacks something to make it great. Cinque's theme is quite beautiful, the Main "Dry Your Tears, Afrika!" is a very enjoyable piece of music, based on a poem written by Bernard Dadie in 1967, "Dry your tears, Afrika! Your children come back to you. We have come home" and it is sung completely in an African language, but the rest of the material is somewhat uninteresting and Adams' theme is very bland, being too much like other "patriotic" American music with its trumpet sounds. There are a number of soloists contributing here: most importantly the mezzo Pamela Dillard, usually singing in connection with Cinque, the trumpetist Tim Morrison associated with the lawyer Adams, and Jim Walker (flute) and Jim Thatcher... Read review

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Advantages: fantastic music
Disadvantages: Very rare recording, Very expensive

...I seem to have recently developed a habit of finding things that are rare and expensive. This CD is no exception. Just how do you describe a form of music to somebody who has probably never heard any of the instruments mentioned played, perhaps has never even heard of the instruments themselves. Way back in the early 1970's there was something of a revival of music played on early instruments. At least that was when I first came across it. There was a musician called David Munrow, who was extremely enthusiastic about music played on wind instruments and if there was an instrument he couldn't play, I do not know which one it was. He assembled a group of other young and enthusiastic musicians including Christopher Hogwood and Philip Picket. These are names that you may have come across. This disc is played by The New London Consort... Read review

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