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Dance of the Kachina Dolls
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Kachina dancers would give the little ones Kachina dolls as a remembrance of the ceremonial dance and to help them keep in mind the messages of the Kachina’s dance. Kachinas are the spirit essence of everything in the real world.
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Bio John De Boer (Spirit of Thunder) A wonderfully talented musician and composer, the flute music of John De Boer and his debut recording "Flute Songs for a Blue Moon" are certainly a welcome addition and we are honored to have this acclaimed artist." Music is not just something that he does music is everything that he is.... “ John De Boer has played with or fronted for many well known artists such as Chubby Checker, The Crystals, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Henry Lee Summers, Johnny Paycheck, Lou Cristie, Billy Joe Royal, John Anderson, Merle Hagert, and many more. John's original flute songs are composed and inspired while playing in natural surroundings by waterfalls or a river. The Native American flute sings and echoes in the valleys while the birds whisper melodies in the wind as the magic flutes plays. The inclusion of these types of sonic backgrounds on his latest release," Flute Songs for a Blue Moon" is a testament to these inspirations, taking the listener on a journey of magical explorations with the Native American Flute. John De Boer's music is played from his heart, and when you hear his songs you can tell they were born from deep within his soul. John's music has been described as meditative, soothing and healing in its truly mystical essence. "Flute Songs for a Blue Moon" is a must have for any lover of Native (love) flute music. You can hear the voice of many ancients in the music of John De Boer as he plays the Native American flute. De Boer's approach to composing and performing accommodates the spiritual dimension of music. He employees an artistic note bending technique on his flute that wrenches the soul of the listener and blends the melodic contours of his songs with the joys, triumph, and tragedies common to the heart of all men. John De Boer has been a professional musician for over 20 years. A multi-talented composer and entertainer, John has been performing on stage and national television since he was four years old. He holds a degree in fine arts and is a certified music teacher. Still, John mostly plays "by ear", believing that music theory and sheet music are a mere guide to assist a person in finding the music which resides inside of each of our souls. John De Boer's Biography
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
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Peak #68
Peak in subgenre #8
Author
John De Boer
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John De Boer
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February 07, 2004
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MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Dance of the Kachina Dolls The song The song "Dance of the Kachina Dolls" is based on a dream I had one night about a store full of Kachina Dolls I had been in that day. The store had literally hundreds of different types of Kachina dolls all posed and frozen in different positions. Some in different part of their dance and others just standing their stoic in their regalia. I wondered around the store looking at the hundreds of different types and styles for hours fascinated by the colors and designs reading all the little captions and stories about each Kachina. When I got home I got on the computer and did some research about the origins, meanings and rituals behind the Kachinas Dance. That evening when I fell off to sleep I dreamed was in the store where I had been that day, but it was dark and the owner had locked up for the night. I heard voices and this music start to play in my head. All of a sudden the Kachinas began to move and then they started to dance and dance and danced until the sun started come up and I heard the key in the door and they all froze and went back to their original positions. The door opened and the owner walked in I was frozen also. Then the light came on and I awoke the melody still ringing in my head. I picked up my Native American flute and started to learn the strange song that had kept playing over and over that night. All the next day the melody and the dream kept haunting me until I could record it. When I play the song to this very day I suddenly have the uncontrollable urge to move and I find my feet shuffling and myself dancing around playing the flute thinking of the Kachina dolls dancing in the store at night when all the light are out and the people have left. love and peace Spirit john de boer
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Dance of the Kachina Kachinas are the spirit essence of everything in the real world. Their essence is inferred from the steam which rises from food and whose loss does not change the form of the food, to the mist rising from a spring on a cold morning or the cloud which forms above the mountaintop. Kachinas are not deities, but supernatural beings that dwell in an invisible world until they are given form in the parallel human world. There are more than 200 Kachina characters that possess characteristics of real life personalities or represent plants or animals The dance of the Kachina offers the children a real-life connection with the Kachina spirits. Kachinas give the little girls Kachina dolls as a remembrance of the ceremony and to help her remember the messages of the Kachinas Kachinas many times represent spirits of nature. The Kachinas represent game, domestic plants and animals, birds, insects, even death itself. The creative force of the sun and the abstract power inherent in neighboring tribes are visualized as Kachinas. Kachinas are supernaturals, embodying the spirits of living things and also the spirits of ancestors who have died and become a part of nature. Kachinas are believed to possess powers over nature, especially the weather, but higher gods limit the extent of their powers. The Kachinas are not worshiped, but rather are treated as friends or partners who are interested in th the welfare of the tribe. They give substance to the immaterial, becoming in the process intermediaries between the physical and the spirit world.
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