Songs from the Black Cedar Hills, by Louie Gonnie

Songs from the Black Cedar Hills

by Louie Gonnie

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1.	Spheres and Talismans 11:33	buy track
2.	Meditate 06:51	buy track
3.	All Along Echoing Paths 08:39	buy track
4.	Fires of Our Ancestors 09:04	buy track
5.	Envisionment 08:50	buy track
6.	A New Dawn 08:54	buy track
7.	On Our Road of Life 03:02	buy track
8.	Butterflies Dance 02:00	buy track
9.	From the Mountain Tops 03:55	buy track

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For three generations, the Gonnie family have lived amongst the rising buttes and hills of an area of the Navajo Nation called Black Cedar Hills. Named for those lands that have been the family stronghold for decades, this recording brings together prolific Diné songmaker Louie Gonnie with brother Dewey Gonnie and cousin Logan Yazzie to honor their family’s vibrant lineage of song and prayer. From the embers of the fireplace of the Native American Church emerge these potent songs of inner healing and transformation.

-The locales of White Cone and Black Cedar Hills are known for being home to respected elders, traditional singers and visual artists. Likewise, the Gonnie family maintains a singing tradition with a sound all to its own. The Gonnie family sound and the spirit of their ancestral lands are the centerpieces of this newest recording by award-winning Native American singer Louie Gonnie.

-Gonnie is joined by relatives Dewey Gonnie and Logan Yazzie, both noted singers and songmakers in their own right. Together their singing and compositions touch the listener in the heart and provide spiritual nourishment for those on the Peyote Road.
-These songs are framed by Gonnie’s unique presentation of gentle sound design, enhancing the singers’ resonant vocals and the pulse of their meditative drumming.

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released April 15, 2015

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Canyon Records Arizona

Canyon Records of Phoenix, Arizona, producer and distributor of Native American music, is one of the oldest independent record labels in the music industry as well as one of the oldest cultural institutions in the state of Arizona.