Our American Journey

Chanticleer - Our American Journey

Our American Journey
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Artist: Chanticleer
Composer: Chanticleer
Performer: Chanticleer
Performer: Christopher Fritzsche
Performer: Eric Alatorre
Performer: Jesse Antin
Performer: Joseph Jennings
Performer: Kevin Baum
Performer: Michael Lichtenauer
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-11-12
Music Label: Warner Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
  2. Credidi
  3. Versa Est In Luctum
  4. Jefferson - Chanticleer
  5. David's Lamentation
  6. Soar Away
  7. Whispers
  8. Voices Of Autumn
  9. The Un-Covered Wagon
  10. Fuggi, Fuggi, Dolor
  11. Labbra Vermigile E Belle
  12. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  13. Camptown Races
  14. Love Walked In
  15. Willow Weep For Me
  16. Calling My Children Home
  17. Wayfarin' Stranger
  18. I'm A Pilgrim

Music reviews of Our American Journey

Music Review: THE UN-COVERED WAGON
Rating: 5 Stars

-=<+>=- THE UN-COVERED WAGON -=<+>=- Chanticleer is amazing! I'm the composer of "Un-Covered Wagon" and I must say they performed it in a spectacular way. The piece is not easy. The text is sung entirely in Mohican with American Indian "vocables" that tell of the existential reciprocity Indians have with the earth: Ka Akai ke scheech ko naap (You Earth make us) / Nenangpe ke scheech ko wa (We People make you) / Po ma yik (We all live here) / Ga mao we (Always, Ever).

One of the first epic Western films "The Covered Wagon" (Paramount, 1923), based on Emerson Hough's novel, portrays the pioneers crossing what they saw as an open territory free-for-the-taking. But obviously, there were other people already living in this so-called "untamed wilderness" -- The Indians.

I am struck by how one-sided this American expansion is continually portrayed, not only for the old B/W era, but in today's America too. America creates and sustains an unenlightened legacy of trampling across the continent for it's own uses. Sanctioned by all sorts of religious dispensations where a glorious "end of time" reigns care-free and supreme, like protective salvation, this ratified conquering is highly prevalent even today.

I wrote the "Un-Covered Wagon" in order to uncover an alternate view -- that America was never empty nor free for the taking at all. The American continent has always been filled with others, people, stories and history, and has been known as intimately as a familiar footpath shared daily by humans and animals alike -- long before America existed. To reveal this musically, I super-imposed a racist hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers," one half-step apart in tuning from an Indian background to create a new way of hearing that hymn. Chanticleer performs this difficult passage flawlessly and the effect is spooky and surreal. The end of the work calls for three different Indian singing styles to be super-imposed upon each other, and all can be heard clear as a bell in Chanticleer's spectacular performance. I am deeply proud of both the work and Chanticleer's performance of it.

"Un-Covered Wagon," as music and message, urges us to reconsider the seasoned and intelligent tradition of keeping good familial relationships with the earth -- that may in fact suit us better -- and to finally strip that out-dated chuck wagon called progress. Life is for sharing, not controlling.

With Respect,
Brent Michael Davids
Mohican Nation

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This is Chanticleer's 25th recording and also marks its 25th anniversary season. The title refers to the group's wide-ranging repertoire; this disc includes Mexican baroque, traditional American songs in various styles and music commissioned by Chanticleer itself. A program that tries to please everybody is bound to disappoint somebody; however, no one could be disappointed by the singing. The sound of these 12 unaccompanied male voices has an unearthly, celestial beauty and purity; their blend is perfect. Though the singers rarely use vibrato, their intonation is impeccable both together and in solos. Their expressive range and stylistic versatility are incredible: they can project tenderness, pleading, and bitter protest and are equally at home in plainchant, Latin hymns, blues, spirituals, shouts and crooning. Among the highlights are the three opening hymns, settings of two poems of Torquato Tasso by William Hawley, commissioned by Chanticleer, which combine 16th- and 20th-century styles, and the two final folksongs, the last with a stride-style piano accompaniment, making a rousing, exuberant ending. The booklet, in three languages, is well laid-out and informative. --Edith Eisler

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