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Well renowned as a silver flautist, performing in new age music, Tim Wheater brings you an ethnic flute work on Native American Flute, titled "Sound Medicine Man", on the New World Music label. While this isn't the only work containing Native American Flute, from Tim Wheater, it is the only one I have found, that features the NAF, on most tracks. For those unfamiliar with this flautist, I might mention his background includes performances as diverse as with Deepak Chopra, The Eurythmics, and The Grateful Dead. Yet, this work is one of Native American Flute beauty, both meditative, and spiritual, but with a touch of sophistication, not quite like other NAF artists. Wheater has performed with a variety of new age artists, to include Nina Spiro ("Silk and Bamboo"), Michael Hoppe (Romances for alto flute: "The Yearning" and "The Dreamer", "Windsongs", "Afterglow"), and has a number of his own albums, to include the fabulous "In Unity", on silver flute, as well as new agey orchestral works such as "Incantation", using a variety of flutes to include bamboo, NAF, and silver flutes. There are 7 tracks, of mostly longer pieces, that vary from about 4 mins. to about 10.5 mins. Accompaniment includes piano, bass, drums, strings, and vocal textures. Wheater's style offers fantastic vibrato, and precision play, that makes you acutely aware of his virtuoso abilities as a flautist. His ability to play a wide assortment of world flutes, is top notch, and his performance is very relaxing, and yet moving, all at the same time. Vocal textures are found in many of Wheater's works, and this one includes them as well. The textures add that "chant" type of element to the music, adding the vibration of voice to the other textures and vibrato of the flutes. "Sound Medicine Man" explores the world of the Shaman, following the ancient spiritual path, in a celebration of all that is, in life. Tracks include: 1. "The Great Journey" 2. "Meeting the Bright Ones" 3. "The Blindfolded Hunter" 4. "Healing the Earth" 5. "Totem Moons" 6. "Cloud Dreams" 7. "Seeds of light" My favorite tracks? This is one artist whose work I enjoy, on each and every track, I hear. On this work, especially, each track merges into the previous one, and the next one, and the continuity of the music is almost unbroken, as though the tracks are merely variations of a single long piece, which tells the entirety of a story. Yet the story is so pleasing to hear, that you can hear it again and again, without interruption, for long periods of time.Read full review
I am so very impressed with this cd. It makes you feel like nothing could make you feel bad. It is a must for your collection if you are a Tim Wheater fan. Do yourself a favor and get one...
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