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If you like drum thumping, bells jingling, and vocals that sound like guttural noises, buy this CD. There are no real instruments. It’s VERY authentic stuff. Recording quality is good, but if you’re looking for a toe-tapper —this isn’t it. It sounds like noise to me.
Rating: 2 / 5
Authentic Native American Music containes performances of sincere clarity and direction to seek support from the supreme spirit. Every note is masterly played… Every voice has a well- trained quality. Truly amazing sound quality.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought the CD a couple years ago, not on-line, because I was like the negative reviewer, curious. I was shocked. The music is nothing like what the general public is spoon fed for mass consumption.
Yes, it is true that the cover liner has almost no information, but I’m sure some intrepid reviewer who doesn’t like that fact can do us all some good and look up whether the tribal affiliations listed are accurate or not. Nevertheless, the music is wonderful. The sound quality is not your typical CD quality, but it is good enough, and gives a sort of down home feel. Anybody who thinks the CD should be avoided because of the lack of liner notes needs to buck up and just enjoy the music. Above all, enjoy the music.
It is certainly authentic, and compelling. The melodies are riveting, the Pawnee Hand Game Song, is hypnotic, the Navajo Hoop Dance is gives beautiful inflections, and the Shawnee Stomp Dance is an interplay of dueling voices that makes the CD worth every penny, and that is true even if it happened to turn out that the song is for a Seminole Gift ceremony or a Mongolian BBQ. Please don’t get me wrong, I personally think the tribal affiliations are probably accurate, the lack of Liner Notes does not mean that the furnished info is incorrect. Just suspect. I hope someone will do the research, if someone has the time.
Rating: 4 / 5
These recordings were probably recorded without permission; hence, the lack of named singers and inappropiately named songs. There is a mixture of traditional pow wow and competion pow wow songs (not to mention the inappropiate recording of ceremonial songs) on this cd. The poor recorded tracks speaks for themselves that they are most likely unlawfully recorded.
Rating: 3 / 5
I think the music sounds fine although some media players may make it sound fuzzy the music is excellent.
Rating: 5 / 5