Track Listing

1. She Carries It Along
2. She Dips Water
3. She Teaches
4. She Knocks Petals From The Flowers
5. She Breaks The Kettle
6. Her Words Are Good Again
7. She's Fond Of The Sky
8. Pretty Flower
9. She Sings
10. She Carries The Sky
11. She Leads The Dawn
12. She Puts Them Up
13. Little Feather

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18687 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
If there's a female equivalent to Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai in vision and talent, it's Joanne Shenandoah. In this collection celebrating the nurturing spirit of not only the women in Shenandoah's life but of all mothers, sisters, aunts, and friends, Shenandoah sings traditional Iroquois chants with a unique grace and poise. Her voice shimmers like silk in motherly lullabies and soft incantations. Some songs feature light accompaniment from a cedar flute and occasional drums, but most of the CD is Shenandoah's naturally beautiful voice echoing over a landscape of inspiring silence. Healing and exquisite. --Karen Karleski

Customer Reviews

Beautiful voice!
I bought this CD for the first song on it, which had been playing on my TV music channel. It is a beautiful melody which stops you in your tracks. The rest of the album is just as good, although I wish the Iroquois words were translated in the album notes. Very soothing and relaxing.

meditative
The sweet blending of Joan Shenadoah's voice with and the Iroquois language sends you into a different place of meditation. Wonderful and my cats love it.

Gentle as the morning light falling upon the earth
I have this tape. I came across it in used music store and it had never been opened. I took a chance and now Joann Shenandoah is one of my favorites. Matriarch brings out feelings of being in nature when I hear it. I feel present at sunrise or joyful with the evening song of the birds. Most of the music is accapela with the voices of her daughter and other women of her clan. The words are in Iroquios. This is different than anything else I have in my music collection. It is soothing.