Suggestions of Music with a Native American Influence/sound/tonal reference?

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I am currently searching for music to put together for a fashion show. The challenge here is that the theme of the collection is New Mexico-Native American and I want to coordinate music with the clothing that alludes to the Native American influence in the clothes. I don't want to use the cheesy sort of music that one may find in a Santa Fe resort gift shop, if that makes sense. Does any one have suggestions for (1) an ambient native american music/album/song, etc and (2) something with a more modern feel perhaps with a good walking beat???????

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Marvin gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

HORACE SILVER -- SILVER 'N PERCUSSION

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8421/percussionds1.gif

he's dressed like a native american on the back cover

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

eugene mcdaniels - the parasite

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

John Trudell

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

eugene mcdaniels - the parasite. i'm sure there's a joke in here, but i don't remember the lyrics right now. this is the one at the end where he's screaming a shit ton, right?

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eliteshowsupply.com/images/newpics/firewater.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

its about the white man fucking up the indians shit

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Illuminations LP...for 1) above...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

its about the white man fucking up the indians shit

Oh. Wait. This is a George Harrison thread?

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

its about the white man fucking up the indians shit

Oh. Wait. Is this a Ted Nugent thread?

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

pwnd :-(

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

jaxon - nice Horace Silver picture. So - what you are suggesting is that I go to the music store and puruse for pictures of musicians dressed like indians?

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

B/c i've actually done a little of that and found this:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e63/jennylynn820/oscar_front_sm.jpg

btw, PappaWheelie I would like to thank you for your wonderful music museum on ssx

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

not pwnd :-)

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

no jenny, what i'm saying is he does one side of music w/an african theme and one w/a native american theme

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

If you want some older stuff try Redbone, a band that "identified" with Native Americans, at least. I can't tell from the Wiki if they actually were.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Reading it again I see the two founders were in fact N-A.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

bt express - peace pipe (a tom moulton mix)

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

redbone's "come and get your love" is one of the greatest yacht-rock songs ever. but, yeah, can't imagine anyone would identify the song as having a native american sound or tonal reference.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Moondog!

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

adam and the ants - antmusic

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Dowd claims he was instrumental in making the arrangement come together for "Sunshine Of Your Love" when he suggested that Ginger Baker play an "Indian beat."

Some people think the sixteenth note rhythm of "The Immigrant Song" sounds Native American.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

brockett 99

― turtledoveDIES! (turtledoveDIES!), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

somebody has to say devendra

he might be too "weird", though?

― lucas pine (Ignatius), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Cassandra Wilson, "Redbone"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

devendra is not too weird

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chrisbuck.com/images/FullSizePhotos/Devendra%20Banhart%20b.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.injunjoemusic.com/images/injun_joe_label.gif

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've been waiting for Joe McCombs to post Cher's "Half-Breed."

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

The USA is a Monster's Tasheyana Compost and Wohaw.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

silver apples - dancing gods

― Login Name consigliere (consigliere), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

What you want is Robbie Robertson. He's got an assload of later stuff that's either directly NA or NA+mild electronica.
Or you could look for Ani-Kuni by Madeline Chartrand, some NA psych from Montreal.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Though super-subtle hint— Native Americans are not all one culture, and shouldn't be treated as such any more than Africa is a homogenous country).

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Cherokee people, Cherokee pride, so proud to live, so proud to die

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

"native americans are not all one culture...."

I was not suggesting that in any way. It was the culture in general that inspired the collection. I am looking for anything, in general, that will allude to this culture, that will evoke an emotion in the audience who is viewing the show.

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

love cherokee people

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKL8MNH95Q

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard this before, but it may be what you're looking for. http://www.redhotpromotions.us/id17.htm

― marbles (marbles), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Apache, I just showed the video to a bunch of people at work. Those dancers do a killer routine...and how do they gear up all of that modernt equipment in the wilderness?

Amazing.

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

love the dancers and their "bow-and-arrow" move...(I believe Mr. Burns referred to this move as an "Iroquois Press" on The Simpsons)...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

What you want is Robbie Robertson
.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

marbles- That's not quite it, I don't think my audience would take that music seriously, although it is serious music, but it is the right track.

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I am looking for samples of robbie robertson songs, where can I find one???

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Indigo girls :)

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mitch Mitchell's drumbeats in the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "I Don't Live Today". (Hendrix being 1/4 Cherokee, of course.)

I've gotta confess that I'm an ignoramus, and have virtually no clue what a typical "tonal reference" would sound like - all I can think of is (stereo-)typical "tom-toms and chanting" stuff.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

what about Native American Rap?

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

"tonal reference"

T tone in the instrumentation that alludes to native american music, or has a suggestive sound in this manner

― Jenny J (JennyLynn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Check out a composer/player named Charles Cacioppo. He is a music prof and most of his works are inspired by ethnomusicological investigations into NA rhythm and tonal structures.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

brightblack morning light

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cdsound.it/copertine/APACHE%20INDIAN%20MAKE%20WAY%20FOR%20THE%20INDIAN.jpg

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

vingt regards otm again

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

There's a song called "Hey Ah" on Laurie Anderson's United States. Might be a little too weird for you.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

what about Native American Rap?

Sugarhill Gang's verions of Apache?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfxtAelOio

I've come to think of this as the official Apache dance...

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

redux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKWM007zE44

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Maurice Chevalier singing "I'm An Apache" is probably NOT what you are looking for.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2041175-5463217?loc=http%3A//music.search.ebay.com/Johnny-Cash-Bitter-Tears:-Ballads-of-the-American-Indian_Music_W0QQcatrefZC6QQfromZR4QQsacatZ11233

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

which is to say...

http://www.cdquest.com/images/album_art/sorted/0074/6466/0074646650721.jpg

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I thought you could post a picture by putting an i in front of its url. Why must the ile FAQ torture me with illusions of convenience?

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Floyd Westerman, his 1970 LP Custer Died For Your Sins is pretty great.

― Hatch (Hatch), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

you have to put an i in front of FAQ to get the skinny

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Buffy Saint-Marie: Soldier Blue.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

This guy is part Blackfoot.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Saturday, 23 September 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Could also go for Witchie Tai To (spelling?)

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hank's "Kawliga" has that oater tom-tom.

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2XywYqgGQ

real bummer of a song but incredible production

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:15 (eleven years ago)

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