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Kokopelli's Canyon (Shelter In Place no. 10)

for Native American cedar flute

Kokopelli is a powerful archetype for me as composer, music-maker, and as flute-player. I play mostly bamboo and wood flutes, including my small collection of cedar flutes made in Native American style and tuning.

While recording this music, the image came to me of a petroglyph of Kokopelli stepping out of his place in the canyon wall to perform a concert under starlight, in the natural, reverberant amphitheater of the canyon.

After a solo introduction, he is joined by other version of himself, emerging from other places on the canyon walls, to perform a concert: the music of life, of dance, of fertility, of endurance. Embrace the long years under the sky wheel that turns from sun blaze to cold starlight in the high desert. We endure, we live, and we dance a dance of quiet joy, just for being alive.

When the music returns to a single voice, Kokopelli returns to his stance in stone, a smile lingering behind in the last light.

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from Shelter In Place (pandemic double album), released March 31, 2020
Arthur Durkee: cedar flute

Music video: youtu.be/G8HRU0RN6G0

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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