Under Watchful Skies, by Allen Bruce Ray

Under Watchful Skies

by Allen Bruce Ray

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1.	Familiar Spirit 03:33	buy track
2.	Moving On (Today Is a New Day) 04:03	buy track
3.	My Morning Mountain Walk 03:59	buy track
4.	April Fanfare 03:54	buy track
5.	As Far As I Can See 04:12	buy track
6.	Hawk / Magician 02:09	buy track
7.	To Drive the Clouds Away 03:26	buy track
8.	Where Have They Gone? (Echoes of the Anasazi) 03:36	buy track
9.	Under Watchful Skies 02:58	buy track
10.	Eastern Morning 02:15	buy track
11.	Long Ago, Deep Within 04:36	buy track
12.	I Remember 03:20	buy track
13.	Good Feeling 05:02	buy track
14.	Summer Breeze / Blue Skies, Bare Trees 04:37	buy track
15.	Here & There 04:22	buy track
16.	Summer Longing 06:02	buy track

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This album represents the culmination of a year's efforts in selecting the right songs, recording & sometimes re-recording them, adding accompaniment, & refining the arrangements. The title was inspired by the unadulterated New Mexico sky photo, taken by me, that graces the cover & which appears to closely resemble a large eye in the sky. "Under Watchful Skies" features not only the sumptuous sounds of 18 different Native American flutes but also those of a variety of other world instruments. I'd long wanted to incorporate Mellotron strings, flutes, and harp sounds into my music as well as 6 & 12-string guitars, so it was a pleasure to finally be able to do so. I also played Native American percussion in real-time and added lots of touches with a wide variety of World instrument samples. The project took shape while moving my residence several times over very large distances: South Korea to New Mexico to Ohio to New Mexico again & finally back to Ohio! Written after reflecting on both the end of a relationship & the death of my father, the emotional distances covered are also quite large. It was a long time coming, but I'm happy with the results & am pleased to present them to you now.

Native American-style flutes used on this recording and corresponding track numbers:

Jonah Thompson F# minor (1, 13)
Kuzin Bruce E minor drone (2, 4)
High Spirits Condor C minor (3, 9)
Laughing Crow D minor (5, 12)
Laughing Crow A minor (5)
Laughing Crow tiger maple G minor (5)
High Spirits high G minor pocket flute (5)
High Spirits Merlin high C minor (2, 6, 7, 9)
Rick Heller F minor (2, 7, 15)
Stephen DeRuby EZ-Anasazi C (8)
Laughing Crow F# minor (10)
High Spirits Kestrel D minor (5, 7)
High Spirits F# minor contrabass (11)
High Spirits F# minor drone (11)
High Spirits Kestrel high F# minor (11)
High Spirits Kestrel high E minor (2, 12)
ABR / Laughing Crow E minor (14)
Laughing Crow D minor drone (16)

Jonah Thompson flutes: www.laughingcrow.com/jonah_thompson_native_american_flutes.html
Laughing Crow flutes: www.laughingcrow.com
High Spirits flutes: www.highspirits.com
Rick Heller flutes: rickhellerflutes.com
Stephen DeRuby flutes: www.deruby.com
Kuzin Bruce flutes: kuzinbruceflutes.tripod.com/id2.html

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released September 1, 2010

All music written, arranged, performed, produced, and recorded by Allen Bruce Ray

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Allen Bruce Ray Chuncheon Si, South Korea

Bruce has been serenading enraptured audiences of birds, trees, & insects and bouncing sounds around the mountains and inner walls of various concrete tunnels, mostly in South Korea, ever since the Native American flute first beckoned him in 2007. Oh yes, and he also plays to fellow human beings all around the world via YouTube. ... more

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