Ceramic artist Tanya Shur created this beautiful tile used for the front cover.


Complete List of Tracks | Where to Find it in C-U | Mail Order

Laulu Voim, Amasong's latest CD features 21 selections, including music from all three Amasong's directors. Women's voices sing music from 14 countries in 23 languages. Selections include Bobby McFerrin's tribute to his mother (the 23rd Psalm), Estonian folk songs, a lament from Afghanistan, a Quaker hymn, a Sephardic lullaby, a love song from the Sichuan Province of China, a traditional Brazilian song with live percussion, and commissions by composers Zae Munn and Kristina Boerger in honor of Amasong's 10th anniversary.

 

Complete List of Tracks

  • O Xote das Meninas/Trad. Brazilian (3:30)

  • Kangding Qing Ge/Trad. Chinese/arr. D.Skydell (3:12)

  • Laulu Voim/Trad. Chinese/arr. D.Skydell (1:15)

  • Laulika Lapsepolv/Trad. Estonia/arr. D.Skydell (2:07)

  • Tantsides/Trad. Estonian/Mart Saar (2:18)

  • Lailaw/Trad. Afghan/ arr. M.Rejskind(2:30)

  • A Waulking Trilogy /Trad. Scottish/arr. M.Rejskind(4:05)

    • Gone the Boat

    • Hame oor Bottachan

    • Na Himbo

  • Taivas on Sininen/trad. Finnish arr. Donald Patriquin (2:56)

  • Song from Cymbeline and ballade with Christine de Pisan/arr. K.Boerger/ Text by Sarah White(4:06, 6:26)

  • How Can I keep From Singing?/Trad. Quaker/ arr. M.Rejskind(4:28)

  • Puirt a Beul/Trad. Scottish Gaelic/arr. D.Skydelll (2:45)

  • Durme, Durme Hermozo Hijico/Trad. Sephardic/arr. D.Skydell (2:41)

  • Ruth and Naomi /Karen Gottlieb Mermelstein (2:28)

  • Laude Novella/Anonymous, 13th-century Italian (3:21)

  • Aro que nostre Seigne es Nat/Trad. Provencal (1:59)

  • Pitit an Moin/trad. Trad. Guadeloupe/arr. Electo Silva (1:00)

  • Ta Shto Mi e Miloj, Mamo/Trad. Bulgarian/arr. M.Rejskind (1:22)

  • Miniwanka or The Moments of Water/R. Murray Schafer (6:18)

  • Like Any Pilgrim/Zae Munn/Text by Pegg Lauber (5:34)

  • The 23rd Psalm(dedicated to my mother)/Bobby McFerrin (3:10)

Where to buy Laulu Voim in Champaign-Urbana

"Laulu Voim" is available locally at Borders, Jane Addams Bookshop, and Pages for All Ages.

Mail Order

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