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March 17th, 2009 | 
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Music for Meditation, Reflection or Therapy, Day or Night: an interview with Night Dancers
If you ask someone why he or she likes a band Musician or style of music, the usual answer is either, "they are awesome," "rock" or "it's fun stuff." People tend to say is that music just for entertainment. And as regards to musicians, the reason they play music from either "The Call", one way or ego-driven need want to stand in front of a crowd. But why do we even have music? Is it, as Shakespeare said, "to soothe the savage beast"? It's not like there is life or death. Or is it? For Gera Clark and John SARANTOS who perform on Native American flutes as night dancers, is music that deep. Mr. Santos started with the simple desire to to express themselves musically, but discovered that the Native American flute, which by its nature it increases beyond drawer features, including new-age "meditation" Music. Mrs. Clark's journey began in urgent need of music with something of a lifeline at a critical time. She said: "After a long critical Disease, I started my life back together … While on this spiritual path, I have the Native American flute. "In this era of art-as-diversion discovered or lifestyle accessory, it's a wonderfully pleasant surprise, recalled that, as Clark and Santos revealed in the interview below is a powerful and healing music Force.
[Mark Kirby] What kind of music was played at home when you were growing up?
[Gera Clark] My mother played classical music on the piano as an escape from her existence as an urban housewife raising four children. When I started school, my mother went back to work, and I saw appetite for opera, dramatically increased. My father held as Bing Crosby and I would start and then when trying to learn the Cha-Cha. In the meantime, my sister would sneak into Rock and Roll. We wanted to write music together in the style of Carol King. We also have some records of my relatives, of whom played a Seamus Ennis, my great-uncle, the Uilleann pipes (An Irish kind of bagpipe).
[John SARANTOS] During my early years, would my mother play classical and opera music when I was in school, but very little music was played while I was home, except on Christmas.
[Mark Kirby] What kind of music you have studied from the Native American flute?
[Gera Clark] As a child, my mother would bribe me with soda to take piano lessons because she wanted me to be a miracle child. When I was in a position where my own journey, I took the flute, which I carried with me for three years.
[John SARANTOS] I've tried learning the drums from the secondary school music teachers, but he told me I had no rhythm and did not want to work with me. After attending a Jethro Tull concert, inspired by Ian Anderson's flute playing, I tried the flute, was not by my flute teacher, I was tone deaf, and they were told to work with me. I tried to sing, but I was told that I am tone deaf by three major Los Angeles voice coach and they would not work with me. I tried guitar and banjo, but it was hard to play just like cords could not I sing along with me. Then I discovered the Native American flute.
[Mark Kirby] How did you start playing Native American music in general, the flute in particular?
[Gera Clark] came after the death of my husband and a quick rebound marriage and divorce, prolonged illness critical, I started my life back together. I began the search for beauty. While on this spiritual path, I discovered the Native American flute.
One day I found myself about a hundred miles west New York is facing a Tibetan Buddhist temple when suddenly I heard the most beautiful sound. Following the powerful, yet haunting sound, I discovered it on the basis of a Native American flute, Ed Callshim (Ponca Sioux) played. After this experience, I finally found a flute of my own to the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Later, as travel to Niagara Falls with my teacher to Amy Lee (Iroquois), connect to a deep longing in connection with my previous trips to the southwest was awakened. On one trip, I found myself exploring the canyons along the Rio Grande. Finally, I was led into the mountains and the Taos Pueblo, where I heard that haunting sound drifting through the air. I followed it to its source, a little Adobe. Looking inside, I met a kind and talented gentleman who I to the native flute playing encouraged. This gentleman, without my knowledge at the time, is one of the most beautiful Native American flute players in the world, John Rainer, Jr. (Taos / Creek). Leaving New Mexico with renewed faith, I was out of the American Indian Community House in New York, to Franc Menusan (Muskogee Creek). He was my mentor very much patience for several years.
On my birthday, I flew from an R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo / Ute) concert with the San Francisco Symphony, where I, Renaissance the Native American Flute workshop in Montana experience. I came back to New York and booked me a flight to Montana, where I was John SARANTOS and our musical partnership was born was met.
[John SARANTOS] My mother, 84-year-old was at the time introduced me to the music of Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai duo. Mr. Kater, is of German descent, played piano, and Mr. Nakai's native flute. I discovered that I like the sound of the native flute. I went to a concert in Kater and Nakai Chicago, Nakai mentioned a week-long workshop at the Feathered Pipe Ranch in Helena, Montana. I had the choice between paying over $ 1,200 for the flute workshop taught by Mr. Nakai and his partner and flute maker, Ken Light, or go to Japan for two weeks, all expenses of the school where I was teaching paid. I decided me for Montana.
[Mark Kirby] What lead to this kind of meditative music playing?
[John SARANTOS] We do not want to think of it as only meditative music. We worked hard to stay away from falling into the stereotype of the musical style on our CD. Although many people use our record for meditation, they also To use for healing and relaxation. Several people who have cancer told me that they find inner peace while listening to music for 'Montana Crossings'.
[Gera Clark] In fact, after John had his cancer surgery last year, we decided that 10% of the gross sales of "Montana Crossings" is meant to flutes to shop for cancer patients. So far, we have flutes to cancer flute circles and individuals in New York City, Chicago donated, Lansing, Michigan, and Jefferson City, Oregon.
[Mark Kirby] Are Native American flutes Shakuhachi flutes more like flutes or in terms of technology?
[John SARANTOS] Neither. The Shakuhachi can take three months just to get a note. The transverse play requires many hours to learn only the basic scale. The native flute is one of the to play simple instruments. I taught elementary children to play the native flute, and they started playing songs in about five minutes or less.
[Mark Kirby] Describe the flutes that you in terms of size, number of holes, type of wood, etc.
[Gera Clark] We use flutes 4:00 to 6:00 holes and four to five inches feet.
[John SARANTOS] Traditionally, most flutes were made of soft wood, such as cedar and pines. However, when the Europeans came, they brought the tools to make it easier flutes made of sterner stuff and some are flutes made of old gun barrels.
[Gera Clark] Today, flute makers make flutes from all types of forests of cedar to walnut iron to and from a flute made of the hardest woods: ebony.
[John SARANTOS] We also have a wide range of sound on the Aztec and Mayan cultures by master flute maker Xavier Quijas Xyotol made flutes based.
[Mark Kirby] How did you arrive at the name of the night dancers for your musical duo?
[Gera Clark] One Day John and I were talking and found that both of us to walk around our individual houses in the middle of the night without light. We came up with the name Night Walkers.
[John SARANTOS] Most people we spoke with, that the name sounded too much like vampires or ladies of the evening.
[Gera Clark] After discussing a variety of names, we came to night dancers.
[Mark Kirby] When did you decide to record 'Montana Crossings'?
[Gera Clark] John and I were playing together for about two years. John would travel from Milwaukee during the holidays, and we would for our friend Bob Hegland, which keep us playing together encouraged to play. We enjoyed playing so well that we play for hours on speaker phone when John was still used in Milwaukee. If we conduct in local New York started venues, people would ask if we could buy a CD they had. After about a year to do live performances, we felt that we created a variety of Songs that we wanted to share with others.
[Mark Kirby] Why did you record at Avatar Studios in New York City?
[John SARANTOS] I had written contributions to hold on for the International Native American Flute magazine for about ten years and could tell when an artist uses a computer at home be all the way up to a professional recording studio. If we did our time, effort and money put into a recording studio, we wanted it to be the best it could sound. I asked several people if they could recommend a recording studio in New York City. Avatar Studios was one of three studios on several people lists.
[Gera Clark] We were also very happy that Jim Tino Passante Avatar Anderson recommended for our sound engineer. Jim understood the tone that we seek, receive, and succeeded in capturing this noise.
[Mark Kirby] What are the titles of the songs you play? If these songs evoke indicative of what the music is?
[Gera Clark] The titles are indicative of the inspiration behind the music.
[John SARANTOS] Hopefully, each person have their own emotional reaction to the music depending on their own journey.
[Mark Kirby] What kinds of events or venues you play?
[Gera Clark] One of our goals is to spread the beauty the flute to help others, whether [to] hear it in our music for others or to share our knowledge of how to play the flute.
[John SARANTOS] herefore, we're playing in a variety of venues for all types of events. You can view our schedule at: http://www.nightdancersmusic.com and http://www.myspace.com/nightdancersmusic
solo//4 – January 2010
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