Cedar Flute Songs, by John-Carlos Perea

Cedar Flute Songs

by John-Carlos Perea

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1.	Prayer 02:19	info
2.	John-Carlos Perea and Everardo Reyes - Naima 04:02	info
3.	The Smell of the Rain 02:50	info
4.	Come Sunday 02:31	info
5.	John-Carlos Perea and Gus Dalan Holley - Du lille skare 03:22	info
6.	Song for Josephine 03:09	info
7.	Ghosts 02:39	info
8.	John-Carlos Perea and Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt - Agur 04:01	info
9.	Tattoo 02:52	info
10.	Don't Cry for Me 03:16	lyrics
Oyáte kiŋháŋ ċéyapi-sni yelo hey -- (People the cry-not) Náŋĥċi ni (he) wáuwelo hey -- ( As of yet I am alive) Waċí wiċáša -- (Dancer man) Hey heya hey heya uwelo -- (It is said, it is said, I am coming) Paraphrase: Folks, don’t cry for me, I’m still alive and dancing. It is said I am coming. Translation by Dirk Alphin

about

This recording is the product of many different relationships—past, present, and future—for which the assembled musicians wish to express their gratitude.

John-Carlos Perea was invited during the 2021-2022 academic year to serve as Visiting Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. He is a graduate of that department having earned his MA and PhD in Music there in 2005 and 2009.

John-Carlos’ teaching during the year focused on, among other subjects, Indigeneity and improvisation. As part of that work he gave a solo recital of American Indian cedar flute music along with three invited guest musicians, all of whom at the time were graduate students in Music: Gus Holley (track 5), Everardo Reyes (track 2), and Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt (track 8). Those guests will be introduced on the page corresponding to their specific track.

The musicians consider this recording a co-publication and co-sonification of their research as performer scholars in their respective musical cultures as well as the intertribal intersections that connect them. Please click on the individual song links above for more information about the individual tracks. The original performance and present recording are respectfully dedicated to the Ancestors still being held by UC Berkeley with the hope those Ancestors will be brought to their homes soon.

credits

released September 16, 2023

Recorded by Brendan Michael West, April 13, 2022 @ Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Department of Music 69th Annual Noon Concert Series
Mixed and mastered by Nathan Corder
Photos by Brandon James Yung

Artwork and design by Monica Magtoto

Everardo Reyes: guitar (track 2)
Gus Dalan Holley: Hardanger fiddle (track 5)
Caitlin Belem Brown Romtvedt: fiddle (track 8)
John-Carlos Perea: cedar flute, voice

John-Carlos Perea plays flutes made by Ken Light and Guillermo Martinez

Collective thanks to Jessica, Josephine, and Jacob Perea, Barbara and Jacob E. Perea, Shannalia, Francisco, and Felix Reyes, Harald Branko Knutsen at the Agder Folk Music Archive, Bud Larsen and the Fargo Spelemannslag, Rinita Dalan and George Holley, David Romtvedt & Margo Brown, Dollie & Simon Iberlin, Mick Camino, the Big Horn Basque Club, Joseba Tapia, Xabier Berasaluze (Leturia), and Arkaitz Miner, Lewis Jordan, Matthew Shenoda, Masaru Koga, Karl Evangelista, Hafez Modirzadeh, Shahin Shahbazi, Wendy and Sybil Rosenblum, Midyanto, Phoenicia Bauerle, Patrick Naranjo, Yared Portillo, David Ake, George Lipsitz, Loren Mach, Ed Campion, Jeremy Wagner, Jeremy Hunt, David Milnes, Jocelyne Guilbault, Bonnie C. Wade, Ben Brinner, Mark Shaw, Mark Mueller, and the students of Music 139, 180, and 247 during Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

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Bassist, singer, cedar flutist, composer

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