Drum Medicine

Description

Shaman drums from around the globe, soaring native flutes,
guitars, Lakota chants, and natural environments awaken you to the dance of
life. David & Steve Gordon, take you on this award-winning musical journey.
With their world instruments and studio artistry, the Gordons have the power
to en-trance and summon the sacred rhythms. The healing power of the drum
moves you to dance, to dream, to live! Triple Award Winner • Winner Visionary
Record of the Year • Winner Visionary Best World Record • Winner New Age Voice
Native Heart Award • Charted on Billboard’s New Age Top 20 Review “Another
best selling Native-influenced release from the pioneering brothers of the New
Age/World sound.” — Napra ReView “The Gordons have simply outdone themselves!
They have crafted a more melodic, accessible album featuring a global-fusion
sound” –New Age Retailer “The beat can make you better. Drum Medicine has
more melody and variety to soothe your senses.” –Whole Life Times “an
unqualified success, combining tribal drums, native flutes, shamanic
atmospheres, and nature sounds in a meaningful celebration of sacred dance.”
–Lloyd Barde, Heartbeats About the Artist David and Steve Gordon have
pioneered New Age/World music with their award-winning top charting albums for
over twenty years. Their influential trademark sound, combining world
instruments and sounds of nature has sold over one million units worldwide and
has appeared on network TV and major motion picture scores such as the recent
Fox Searchlight release, “Kissing Jessica Stein.” Since founding Sequoia
Records in 1982, the Gordon brothers have been breaking musical ground,
consistently creating albums that top the charts, garner awards, and expand
the boundaries of New Age and World music. “We like to think of our music as
the music of Earth and Spirit, because we believe that one of the goals of
being alive is to unite the two into one,” explains Steve Gordon. Natives of
Southern California, David and Steve Gordon both took an early interest in
music. After studying classical music at Los Angeles Valley College and UCLA,
the brothers both attended the Grove Music Academy where they studied modern
harmony and jazz. They formed Sequoia Records in 1982 to release their first
two albums Misty Forest Morning and Peaceful Evening. These albums combined
music and nature so beautifully that they became known as definitive
recordings of the newly emerging New Age music genre… Since these releases
met with critical acclaim and healthy sales, over the next couple of years
they recorded their next two music and nature titles, Radiant Sea and Still
Waters. They next began experimenting with their music, developing a new style
they called “Inner Environments”, which they featured on two albums, Astral
Journey and Celestial Suite. These recordings were some of the earliest
examples of what is known today as Ambient/Space Music. In the early ’90’s the
brothers began to collect Tribal drums and studied the Native American flute.
They envisioned a contemporary world music, combining traditional Native
instruments, with guitar, keyboards, and sounds of nature into a new universal
world groove. Their 1994 release Sacred Earth Drums successfully blended all
of these elements, topping the New Age charts. This influential crossover
recording reached 1 at all the New Age distributors immediately upon release,
stayed there for over 3 years and even now remains high on distributors sales
charts. In 1996, David and Steve went back into the studio and created the
follow-up to Sacred Earth Drums, which they titled Sacred Spirit Drums.
Immediately it began to receive enthusiastic reviews. Steve Ryals of New Age
Retailer’s Fresh Tracks said, “Each superb track flows into the next.
Evocative, mysterious, sensual, and profoundly healing.” In 1999 David and
Steve inaugurated their new studio by creating Drum Medicine, which again
became an immediate top seller on new age alternative distributors best
selling lists and stayed in the top 5 for over 2 years. “With this new
recording, we really wanted to explore the idea of the drum as a force for
healing,” said Steve. David adds, “There’s a more diverse palette of sounds
that draw from other cultures. We looked for musical themes in other cultures
that resonated with the spiritual basics of the Native American culture.” Carl
McColman wrote in a feature interview for NAV Magazine, “The Gordon’s may have
launched out of a Native American sensibility, but as their music has
flowered, it has become truly a universal indigenous sound – for all people of
the earth, from all cultures.” This is precisely what they will continue to
do. To celebrate their 20th Anniversary in March 2002, they released Sacred
Drum Visions, a collection of favorite tracks from their best-selling world
drumming titles, which also included 3 brand new songs which continue to
expand upon their signature contemporary world music sound.

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.4 x 4.9 inches; 3.36 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ CD Baby
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1999
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ CD Baby
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1