Peace & Power, by Joanne Shenandoah

Peace & Power

by Joanne Shenandoah

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1.	Mother of Nations 04:10	buy track
2.	Prophecy Song 05:07	buy track
3.	When Eyes Meet 05:02	buy track
4.	Kaluhyanu:Wes 03:28	buy track
5.	I Am Your Friend 04:08	buy track
6.	Kahalu'nyuhe 03:38	buy track
7.	Aiionwatha Forgives 03:50	buy track
8.	Dance of the North 06:00	buy track
9.	Katsitsi :Yos 03:51	buy track
10.	The Four Legged Ones 01:25	buy track
11.	Deer Dance 03:59	buy track
12.	Path of Beauty 05:41	buy track
13.	Kahawi'tha 02:15	buy track
14.	Peace and Power 03:25	buy track

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Known as "the Native American Enya", Joanne Shenandoah's silken tones are admired world-wide. This album features a collection of Shenandoah's fan favorites!

Sung in her native Iroquois tongue, Joanne Shenandoah's music is like a lullaby with a touch of pain and longing lingering beneath the surface. Sometimes called the Native American Enya, Shenandoah actually has a deeper, more powerful voice than the Irish thrush. Her songs are like Native haiku, short fragments that build in their own poetic arc, sharing an innate musicality not unlike Irish Gaelic. Although Shenandoah has several recordings in a more conventional folk-singer vein, Peace & Power draws from her four most evocative, atmospheric albums: Matriarch, Orenda, Peacemaker's Journey and Lifeblood. Both pianist Peter Kater, who produced Lifeblood, and Tom Wasinger, producer of the other three, successfully frame Shenandoah's simple songs in detailed arrangements. Wasinger, in particular, creates an ethereal chamber music ensemble, with guitars, Middle Eastern zithers, Armenian duduks, citterns, and African kalimbas. The CD comes with an extensive autobiographical booklet detailing Shenandoah's life journey and her pride in her Native heritage, though there's not much information about the music itself. And it would be interesting, in this retrospective context, to hear how she has taken her tradition and extended it into new musical terrain. But at least the aural evidence is on the CD. --John Diliberto

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released January 1, 2002

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Silver Wave Records Colorado

Welcome to Silver Wave, “one of the most storied record labels in the history of New Age and Native American music”, based in Boulder, Colorado since 1986.

We invite you to explore the timeless music in our award winning catalog with artists such as Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai, Mary Youngblood, Joanne Shenandoah, Robert Mirabal, and many more. ... more