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NEW 2008 PRESSING ~ Just released! This album makes a journey from sunrise to sunset. It was recorded in one take, each song giving rise to the next. Think of it as a glimpse into the daily life of our people– the First People of North America.

NEW 2008 PRESSING ~ Just released! Joan’s first storytelling album -- “A long time ago… when animals and two-legged people all spoke the same language…” Joani and Gus Mancini weave a magical tapestry through the world of Coyote, Raven and First Man & First Woman. Includes stories from the Aleut, Okanagan, Wasco and Coast Salish. First in a series.

NEW 2008 PRESSING ~ Just released! Like a rising new mountain coming up from the sea…”contemporary pop meets traditional native rhythms with a driving spirit and the wings of song! Jumping right in with the title cut, Joan Henry and Gus Mancini rev up a band of musicians as adept as themselves at bringing listeners over mountains and canyons, to New York City at midnight & back again"...

Dakota Elder & Sundance Chief Calvin Pompana helps us understand some of the traditional songs commonly heard in Dakota healing ceremonies with his warm-hearted words & understanding, aided by his interviewer's clear questions. (Purchase of this album helps to support our elders as they travel and work in the US & Canada)
From warm and friendly to ethnic to wild and rockin’, there’s everything on this album—rock, reggae, native traditional, world music and a tribute to Kiowa/Kaw saxophonist Jim Pepper! This gathering of master musicians brings their cultural experiences together and calls in the Fifth World –where cultures may co-create or collide, it’s up to us all. Jack says this music “is about change.” This was a real family affair, with Jack’s wife and daughters, Will’s sister and Joani’s brother and her (then) husband all contributing to the project. Jack JeDohnette, Michael Cain, Will Calhoun, Joan Henry, Lonnie Plaxico, John Scofield, Vernon Reid w/ Farrah DeJohnnette, Robert Walking Tall Rosario, Ethel Calhoun, Dennis Yerry

Music for the Fifth World

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This now-dissolved Taino-Arawak drum group carved its own special place as the first in powwow country and helped bring the Taino language back into Indian Country… This is the group that gave birth to the powerful women’s drum Mothers of Nations, which continued to carry the Taino songs. Includes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tiny tots song!... Al Bold Eagle Santos- lead singer, Luis Turey Guari – second, Jorge Baracutey, Cliff Standing Deer, Tzonnee Robles, Joan Henry, Lizzy Sarobey, Maria Robles 

Honoring the Ancient Ones

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More Taino  power! Tom Bee of Sounds of America Records called this “Thunderous powwow drumming and singing!” Solid southern-style singing -- you can hear Joan lead the women as they soar above and behind the men’s voices…w/ Tree Ceibo Rivas and Ray Silva.

Feel the Thunder

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Truly modern classical music meets modern jazz and goes beyond, reaching into the voices of traditional singers and musicians from the many cultures that make up this America…composer/violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman does some wild and neat things on Violinova…Hear Joan freestyling through Mixing America. Julie Lyonn Lieberman, Armen Donelian, Jeff Eckels, Steve Johns and friends…

Mixing America

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