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Environmental sounds digitally
recorded in Chaco Canyon primarily during solstices and equinoxes.
"[A] masterpiece! Its vast spaciousness
reflects Chaco Canyon's sacred landscape. Its spiraling drones,
variegated textures, scintillating electronic effects, angelic
choirs and captivating natural sounds lead the listener into a
state of high meditation. 'Chaco' opens the heart to the wondrous
healing powers of the earth and to the awesome grandeur of the
eternal human spirit, shared by all peoples of every culture throughout
every era, many voices, one heart. Spaciously serene, psycho-spiritually
evocative, aesthetically potent-in a word, superb."
-- Lee Underwood, BODY MIND SPIRIT Magazine
co-author, Inside Paul Horn (Harper & Row)
"Crutcher has drawn on 25 years
of involvement with nature and environmental causes to infuse
the music of Chaco Canyon with just the right shamanic intensity
to compel us to recognize once more our kinship with the spirit
of sacred sites. "
-- Wayne Stephenson, DIMENSIONS (Toronto)
"With
each new work, Crutcher has delved more deeply into the human
psyche. To these ears, CHACO CANYON is his masterpiece. Its vast
speciousness reflects Chaco Canyon's sacred landscape. Its spiraling
drones, variegated textures, scintillating electronic effects,
angelic choirs and captivating natural sounds lead the listener
into a state of high meditation. Chaco opens the heart to the
wondrous healing powers of the Earth and to the awesome grandeur
of the eternal human spirit, shared by all peoples of every culture
throughout every era - many voices, one heart. Spaciously serene,
psycho-spiritually evocative, aesthetically potent - in a word
- superb!"
- BODY MIND SPIRIT Magazine
"The
listener travels through rain and thunder, over stone and through
birds and coyote and feels magically transported into the immediacy
of the experience. The delicate environmental sound and musical
composition of CHACO CANYON brings the wonder of this sacred site
to the listener, and at the same time allows the sense of the
preciousness of life to bloom within the heart."
-NEW AGE RETAILER
"[CHACO
CANYON] is a musically engaging recollection, a thought provoking
poke at the back of the historic mind, an ambient nudge along
the path of the future, all moving in the company of animal friends
and natural elements. Initial recording sessions were done primarily
on solstices and equinoxes. At a time when new ideas, or more
correctly, rediscovered ideas, in music have become trendy and
ephemeral, it is important that real new era musings be conceived
and integrated in proper perspective. Rusty Crutcher does this
without pretension."
-SANTA FE REPORTER
"CHACO
CANYON is part of a "Sacred Sites Series" in which music
is used to help the listener 'remember that all spaces, indeed
all beings are sacred.' Using bird, frog, coyote, owl and other
natural sounds in combination with meditative synth-based phrasing,
multi-instrumentalist Crutcher gently sculpts soothing, healing
mood pieces... tranquil and relaxing."
- LOS ANGELES & ORANGE COUNTY RESOURCES
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