Songs for Leena - Contemporary Hopi Long Flute Music

Stroutsos, Gary

EUCD 2953

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 Öngtupqa (5☆ 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.

CD

World music

ARC Music

08-03-2023

5019396295322