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| GarageDragon | Posted: May 19, 2013 - 09:22 This sounds exactly like Mike Oldfield |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 05:48 tapatia1072 wrote: That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment. Good reply. I appreciated your initial post very much. Thank you. |
| hightail | Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 04:07 Love it. |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 07:01 ick wrote: What's with the New Age music Robbie? more like Old Age music...as in timeless... |
| caregiver (near contentment now) | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 06:08 coloradojohn wrote: I just love the steady horse-walking rhythm, the heart-beat drums, the masterful use of guitar and other instruments, and all the fantastic ethereal Native American singing on this and every song on this masterpiece album that cracked my brain wide-open way back when it came out and still sends me into rapture every time I hear it. This is Rock Medicine. Listen: I am dancing beneath you...  |
| coloradojohn (Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!) | Posted: Jan 01, 2012 - 00:45 I just love the steady horse-walking rhythm, the heart-beat drums, the masterful use of guitar and other instruments, and all the fantastic ethereal Native American singing on this and every song on this masterpiece album that cracked my brain wide-open way back when it came out and still sends me into rapture every time I hear it. This is Rock Medicine. Listen: I am dancing beneath you... |
| greenlake | Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 11:44 This is one of my favorite albums as well as my 22 year old son's! We played it while driving toward the red rock cliffs in Sedona Arizona..what a great family memory! |
| ick (The 619) | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:06 What's with the New Age music Robbie? |
| sandyclaws (On our way back home . . .) | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:04 hbs47 wrote: Well said tapatia. Superb and spiritual album and a great track to boot. The Band wasn't going any where. Robbie , has moved on. I saw a recent(ish) documentary, he seemed very at ease with himself. He has found a connection with his early roots, and used his musicianship to bring that to many others. For that I thank him.    |
| cirruss (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:03 Is the soundtrack for a Titanic remake? |
| mgkiwi (French Alps - rivet rivet) | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:03 A little tedious!  |
| hbs47 (SE England) | Posted: Nov 17, 2010 - 02:54 Well said tapatia. Superb and spiritual album and a great track to boot. The Band wasn't going any where. Robbie , has moved on. I saw a recent(ish) documentary, he seemed very at ease with himself. He has found a connection with his early roots, and used his musicianship to bring that to many others. For that I thank him. |
| mirland (Denmark) | Posted: Nov 17, 2010 - 02:45 Argh!  |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:28 tapatia1072 wrote: That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment. OK, thanks, Zamfir. Now pipe down. BAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahaha |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 As I recall from the liner notes, Robbie has some native american roots. So he went back to research them and this album is a consequent collab with a lot of different well known artists in the native american scene. I don't think this is the best track off that album. But there is some neat stuff there. What IS amazing is the follow up album to this one called, Songs from the Redboy Underground or some such. He uses these same native american artists and adds a DJ for some tasteful electronica programming. String arrangements were then added by David Campbell (famous arranger). THAT one is an amazing album in my humble opinion. |
| tapatia1072 | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 cattail321 wrote: Thank You Mr. Know-it-all tapatia1072 wrote: For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age." That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment. |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 Overrated, sorry Robbie. This is a 3 and going down, |
| cattail321 | Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 19:24 Thank You Mr. Know-it-all tapatia1072 wrote: For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age." |
| tapatia1072 | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:45 iscoot4peace wrote: Let me guess? Zamfir...master of the Pan flute? Robbie, Robbie! You left the band to do this? Mein Gott, man! 3 For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age." |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:34 this lifted me up |
| papaman (Downstate New Mexico) | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:32 Very Santa Fe'ish. |
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:29 ziggytrix wrote: I have a similar reaction to an Asian-influence Pandora station I'm working on. Seeded with Yoshida Brothers and trained from there. It gets a lot of these generic Eastern Meditation CD tracks in the mix, which I usually thumb down, but very occasionally there's a really good song on one of those things. I suppose my point is that while there is a metric crapton of rubbish in the genre, there are also a few real gems. It's like the sex scene theme from a movie about Sittingbull. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:27 celadonstone wrote: New age and similar music totally for a massage studio with the ubiquitous mini-fountain from Target flowing? New Age doesnt have a real good rap perhaps because its nothing in particular. Muzak usually waters down what was a real song once. There isnt much to new age to water down. I see how this tune runs close to that style and why it is similarly loathed. This one doesnt bother me, but after a few more listens, it might. I have a similar reaction to an Asian-influence Pandora station I'm working on. Seeded with Yoshida Brothers and trained from there. It gets a lot of these generic Eastern Meditation CD tracks in the mix, which I usually thumb down, but very occasionally there's a really good song on one of those things. I suppose my point is that while there is a metric crapton of rubbish in the genre, there are also a few real gems. |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:19 Let me guess? Zamfir...master of the Pan flute? Robbie, Robbie! You left the band to do this? Mein Gott, man! 3 |
| keller1 (In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:17 Good music, but I can't hear anything Robbie Robertson is involved in without thinking how he screwed the rest of The Band. |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:16 Do you know i think i might just hate panpipes? Well at least i can't think of a time i heard them and wasn't instantly irritated. |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 13:20 There is another song on this album where they literally recorded crickets, slowed them down about 20X and then had a Native American opera singer sing along. Wild... |
| philbertr (Hurricane Target Florida) | Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 11:28 mandolin wrote: Contemporary Native American music doesn't get any more authentic nor heartfelt than this. From Paul Corio's Rolling Stone Review: The TBS documentary "the Native Americans" was gorgeous, unsettling, provocative. So is Robertson's music for it. Robertson's mother was a Mohawk raised on Canada's Six Nations reservation; he now reclaims an earlier America and his own heritage. Heading the Red Road Ensemble Priscilla and Rita Coolidge, the Silver Cloud Singers, Ulali, and Douglas Spotted Eagle among its members Robertson combines the heartbeat percussion and keening vocals of indigenous music with pop and classical elements. Like Ennio Morricone, he has a gift for sound that's both stately and hip, primal and intricate. A shuddering sadness underlies such pieces, and that's proper this is primarily a chronicle of profound loss. But in the Native American poetry and the fused strength of guitar, strings, natural elements and found sound, there is celebration a ritual summoning of a spirit that lives yet. Thank you! That is truly enlightening commentary. |
| TeleFrank (Allgäu, Germany) | Posted: Oct 18, 2008 - 23:11 Perfect guitar-sound! Telecaster on neck position?  |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Jun 14, 2008 - 14:14 Great track from a brilliant album. |
| NorthernLad (Doha, Qatar) | Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 03:50  |
| trekhead (HORTA-Culture) | Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 03:47 Quick! Go check out Xeric's "Most beautiful places..." Journal with this on!     |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Jan 09, 2008 - 05:13 Some of the comments this one's generated are thoroughly amusing!  |
| gwynhefar | Posted: Nov 07, 2007 - 10:33 Oh wow. I haven't heard this song in years. Not since my CD of this got stolen. I didn't know anyone else had even heard of the album. I really ought to buy myself a new copy. |
| Alifreckles50 (Frederick, MD) | Posted: Jun 03, 2007 - 07:29 very beautiful and spiritual. |
| madaxeman (Scottish west coast) | Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 07:07 This is pretty damn good,but I'd recomend Sacred Spirit.........Chants And Dances Of The Native Americans. The most uplifting and heartfelt music I've heard for many a long year. |
| dawnejazz (on a road...up the hill...into an abyss) | Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 10:30 Thank you RP for playing this. Robbie Robertson has brought forth this jewel that I have personally shared with many adolescent Native American boys who I have worked with in the past. This music has welcomed the opportunity to awaken an authenticity many of these boys did not know existed. Music can healing and enlightening....and this particular mix has been well recieved. (Not to mention I am a huge Robbie Robertson fan from way back) |
| celadonstone (Southeast of the USA) | Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 10:27 rklein wrote: I am sorry, but this is just kitsch to me. In German, I would say "weichgespülte Musik", i.e. music treated with fabric softener. It don't know much of native american music, but this piece walked too far from its origins towards New Age crap.
Wow. I will remember that term for future use. Its great! New age and similar music totally for a massage studio with the ubiquitous mini-fountain from Target flowing? New Age doesnt have a real good rap perhaps because its nothing in particular. Muzak usually waters down what was a real song once. There isnt much to new age to water down. I see how this tune runs close to that style and why it is similarly loathed. This one doesnt bother me, but after a few more listens, it might. For Native Americans playing blues and classic rock, see 'Indigenous'. |
| Banaszak (3rd star from the left) | Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 10:23 I think I could listen to this all day. Perhaps I should work in a new age gift shop selling crystals, Tarot cards and smudge sticks? |
| stubbsz (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 10:18 Art_Carnage wrote: "Music For The Native Americans"
Haven't they been through enough already, without having to endure this? This is actually pretty good. But, I got a good laugh out of you comment. |
| Fiji5555 | Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 10:16 This whole CD is great!    |
| JennyAnyDots (Camperdown, Sydney) | Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 19:00 Oh dear... I feel like I've just stepped into a shop selling crystals, tarot cards and smudge sticks. Why do all those stores have the same soundtrack? Sorry, this one's not for me. |
| mandolin | Posted: Dec 31, 2006 - 14:36 Art_Carnage wrote: Haven't they been through enough already, without having to endure this?
Contemporary Native American music doesn't get any more authentic nor heartfelt than this. From Paul Corio's Rolling Stone Review: The TBS documentary "the Native Americans" was gorgeous, unsettling, provocative. So is Robertson's music for it. Robertson's mother was a Mohawk raised on Canada's Six Nations reservation; he now reclaims an earlier America and his own heritage. Heading the Red Road Ensemble Priscilla and Rita Coolidge, the Silver Cloud Singers, Ulali, and Douglas Spotted Eagle among its members Robertson combines the heartbeat percussion and keening vocals of indigenous music with pop and classical elements. Like Ennio Morricone, he has a gift for sound that's both stately and hip, primal and intricate. A shuddering sadness underlies such pieces, and that's proper this is primarily a chronicle of profound loss. But in the Native American poetry and the fused strength of guitar, strings, natural elements and found sound, there is celebration a ritual summoning of a spirit that lives yet. |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Dec 02, 2006 - 12:06 "Music For The Native Americans" Haven't they been through enough already, without having to endure this? |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Nov 03, 2006 - 06:30 ACK!!! You really got my hopes up for a second, thinking this was Trilogy by ELP, until about the third note on that synth. |
| Tux (The Netherlands) | Posted: Oct 04, 2006 - 23:33 jayvee2 wrote: I agree. |
| jameyp (New York via Austin) | Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 08:01 my dad always puts on this cd on sundays and calls it "going to church"... cute! |
| Zweiblumen (Boston, MA [2,606 miles ENE of Paradise, CA]) | Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 07:59 rklein wrote: And this after Bach by Loussier. What a drop!
 Agreed. This is about as bland as bland gets. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy's elevator. |
| cptbuz (El Dorado Hills, CA) | Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 07:58 like bad massage room music, and without the happy ending. blah |
| ThePoose | Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 07:58 Rob, who used to play for Bob, is part Mohawk and grew up on the Six Nations Reserve (''reservation'' is U.S. style) near Brantford, Ontario, west of Toronto. |