Gary Stroutsos Songs - For Leena - Contemporary Hopi Long Flute Music

Cat. no: EUCD2953
Format: CD
Barcode: 5019396295322
Release Date: 22 Oct 2021
Genre: World Music

Gary Stroutsos honours the Hopi Tribe with solo improvisations on a reincarnated leena.

Featuring the plaintive and haunting sounds of the Hopi long flute, these pieces are inspired by the landscapes of the American Southwest, and the people who have lived there since time immemorial. Songs for Leena is the follow-up album to ngtupqa.

Gary Stroutsos honours the Hopi Tribe with solo improvisations on a 1,400-year-old Hopi long flute replica. Part of a new ‘Hopi Long Flute Preservation Project’ to inspire future generations of Hopi musicians to continue this important cultural tradition.

Songs for Leena is the follow-up album to ngtupqa (5 9734; amazon review). Gary Stroutsos honours the Hopi Tribe with solo improvisations on a reincarnated leena. Featuring the plaintive and haunting sounds of the Hopi long flute, these pieces are inspired by the landscapes of the American Southwest, and the people who have lived there since time immemorial The Hopi Tribe have maintained their flute tradition for thousands of years.

Today, it is still actively cultivated with the help of The Hopi Long Flute Preservation Project, of which Gary is an honourable member. Due to his dedication to the instrument, and long-term friendships with cultural practitioners of the tribe, the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office invited Gary to join the project - an offer never extended to a non-native before.

Profits from this album will go towards The Hopi Long Flute Preservation Project.

Tracks: Invocation Morning Prayer Song / Song for Leena / Tawanaksu / Red Moon / Blue Corn / Blue World / Cloud Blower / Wupatki / Mesa Sky / Tuzigoot / Hopi Sunrise