This album is a combination of a quartet from Moscow Russia and duet guitar pieces playing John Coltrane songs recorded in Colorado Springs Colorado at my home then. The Russian recordings feature; Andre Mongush-egil and voice (Tuvan Throat Singer) Vera Sazhena- voice Bob Amacher-Boudin drum and my self on flamenco guitar. I was on tour with another project all over Russia and I met these very unique musicians in Moscow. Unique in their originality and unusually Bob and Vera are Shamans in the literal sense. They practce Shamanism as a way of life. Andre is a Tuvan from in and around Kazil, Tuva from a family of sheep herders. It was explained to me that Tuvans are nomads and they have summer and winter homes where they move which happens to be a yurt which is moved as American indians moved their tipis with the seasons. Fences are outlawed in Tuva. I felt in very good company in the recording studio surrounded be two shamans and Tuvan. Bob arranged the studio and the engine! er and I mixed and mastered it. I feel it is such a special event that it needed to be documented. BW Read less...
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