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Echoes from Prayer Rock

by Gary Stroutsos

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Emergence 05:11
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Walpi 02:44
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Fourth World 03:29
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Ancient Woodwinds Breathe New Life
In 1931, Archeologist Earl Morris led an expedition from the Carnegie Institution to the Prayer Rock District in NE Arizona. Morris discovered intact, wooden Box Elder rim style flutes constructed between 620-670 CE, making them the oldest extant wood flutes found in the Americas. The flutes were transferred to the Arizona State Museum in Tucson in 1957.

Flute Maker Michael Allen crafter replicas of these 2000-year-old instruments using measurements of the original flutes discovered by Morris. The flutes’ haunting tones are refreshingly new in today’s music world but are as old as the ancient Puebloan ruins from which they came.

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released March 13, 2020

As heard on the award-winning PBS film Desert Dreams: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert. Info at wildhorizons.com
Flutes – Gary Stroutsos
David Revelli – Clay Percussion on Tracks 3, 4, 7
Cover Image courtesy of Jan Nickman

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