Album Info
| 1. Blow, Wind, Blow | Year of Recording: 1989 | |||
| 2. Breaking Flax | Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | |||
| 3. The Sun Moves Quickly | Producers: Mickey Hart, Jerry Garcia | |||
| 4. Sleep My Child | Engineer: Tom Flye | |||
| 5. Song Of The Wind | Design: Steven Jurgensmeyer | |||
| 6. So Silent Is The Ukranian Night | Photography: John Werner, Halina Krukowski | |||
| 7. The Forest Shook From Dancing | Series Ethnomusicology: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D. | |||
| 8. Where Have You Been, Brother? | ||||
| 9. Orphan Girl In White | ||||
| 10. Di Raike | ||||
| 11. Christmas Masquerade (Mummery Song) | ||||
| 12. Oi Hanuke | ||||
| 13. Autumn Landscape | ||||
| 14. The Tomtit’s Message | ||||
Description
This 1990 album features traditional and modern Latvian songs performed by Dzintars, Latvia’s leading female choir. Consisting of 67 voices, two conductors, one piano, and one organ, Dzintars was founded in 1947, Dzintars: Songs of Amber was their first and only U.S. release. “Dzintar” is the Latvian word for amber, a symbol of Latvian national identity representing beauty, openness and freedom. “The music is high, it’s crystalline, and it makes me smile,” said Mickey Hart, who co-produced the album with Jerry Garcia. In addition to Latvian selections, the album includes one Russian and three Yiddish folk song settings.
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