OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY

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Release Date: 25-03-1999

Label: Silver Wave Records

Catalog Number: SD919

Barcode: 21585091924

Musical Style: Native American

Track Listing:

Disc 1
1	Celestial Dancer	5	Ghost Dance
2	Pyramid Temples	6	Passage to MesoAmerica
3	Voices of the Wind	7	Sacred Landscapes
4	The Ancient Onces

Review:

'Expansive, dreamy, lively and atmospheric ... Gomez's melodies are sensitively shaped to transform legendary settings and traditions into a tapestry keenly enchanting to modern ears.' - San Antonio Express News

Description:

We are pleased to announce the Silver Wave debut of Alice Gomez with her new release Obsidian Butterfly, including Madalyn Blanchett and Marilyn Rife. These three talented women have been recording Native music together since 1994, beginning with their top-selling CD, Flute Dreams. Together they weave the melodic sounds of exotic percussion instruments to evoke the mystery and lore of Native peoples of the Americas.

In Aztec culture, Obsidian Butterfly is one of many female deities associated with the Earth and its fertility. The music on this recording was created in celebration of the various splendors of the Earth including scenic landscapes and ancient ruins. In addition to recorders, keyboards and guitar, percussion instruments used on Obsidian Butterfly include marimba, log drums, Peruvian bombo, Indian gourd cabasa, guiro, maracas, rattles, triangle, rain stick, dance bells, wind chimes, bamboo chimes, suspended cymbals, gong, congas, bongos and pow wow drums.

Biography:

Drawing on her multi-cultural background, Alice Gomez is rapidly gaining international acclaim for her Latino, Mexican Indian and Native American original compositions.

She is an accomplished composer and arranger, five time winner of the ASCAP Composer's Award and was the Composer in Residence with the San Antonio, Texas Symphony.

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