Voice of a Dakota: Harmonized Healing Songs (2006)

About this title: Peyote songs have been sung in Gerald Primeaux's family for five generations, so it's something he's absorbed since birth. These songs of healing complement that peyote idea beautifully, and the a cappella arrangements for Primeaux and two other singers are discreetly lovely, quiet and wonderfully soothing. In fact, it's only on the final cut that he returns to the tradition for "Four Peyote Songs" delivered with drum and rattle behind the voice. He sings in both Dakota and English, but his approach to English in what are so obviously Native American songs is interesting, framed in a very ... read more

Tracks:

1. Straight Healing Song [Primeaux]
2. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
3. The Primeaux Family Song [Primeaux]
4. Straight Healing Song [Primeaux]
5. Soldier Boy Song in Dakota and English [Primeaux]
6. Straight Healing Song [Primeaux]
7. Straight Healing Song [Primeaux]
8. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
9. Healing Song in English [Primeaux]
10. Soldier Boy Song in English [Primeaux]
11. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
12. Straight Healing Song [Primeaux]
13. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
14. Healing Song in Dakota and English [Primeaux]
15. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
16. Healing Song in Dakota [Primeaux]
17. The Birthday Song [Primeaux]
18. Four Peyote Songs with Gourd and Drum [Primeaux]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.