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I'm relieved to finally announce that tomorrow 3/3/23 for Bandcamp Friday, my thirteen year journey under the moniker of Cycle of the Raven Talons, crafting an album entitled "A Medicinal Musical" will finally be available for purchase. Featuring Glass Throat Recordings original oversized 6"x 6" deluxe gatefolds, this double CD will showcase full clear white foil stamping upon a heavily texted white stock.
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-Chet W. Scott
This medicinal musical journey is dedicated to the people of Turtle Island.
“The way to catch the river is to hold very lightly”
-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Chet W. Scott
under the moniker and original sigil
Cycle of the Raven Talons
presents:
A Medicinal Musical:
Disc :I:
I: Tatanka Nishna Aku
II: My Intentions Dawning
III: To Live Again
Disc :II:
IV: Crying
V: Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light
A seeker and long standing solitary practitioner of a path I keep within, this collection of sacred ecstatic drum and flute work has become another turn of the great wheel. A musical memoir if you will, within the light and darkness of personal growth; a collection of experience, not a destination! These four ceremonies are inspired perspectives through the sacred medicine hoop or circle. My heart honors love and longing, and being in awe of the conduit that great mystery has provided my spirit within the four winds of this medicinal musical.
A journey of strictly acoustic, worldly soundscapes performed as an intense and sometimes brutal aural cleanse; devotional, sacral crafts of my own deepening path towards well-being and natural spirituality: this collection and my craft as a whole, is not of religion and thus should never be confused with such particular programs of monotheistic or even polytheistic practice(s).
"Natural spirituality is the birthright of a consciousness embodied in an Earthly life, and it honors the gifts of that life.” In short, it is the integration of awareness (focus), alignment of self, metamorphosis (release) and actualization. "An organic enactment of connectedness to source. A manifested awareness of inherent connectedness to all. It is a spirituality that belongs to no particular gender, race, age, system, or path. Its only prerequisites are awareness and authentic respectful participation. All else unfolds from these."
-Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart
My intentions offer a strict implementation of authentic hand-crafted ceremonial & ritual instrumentation. A movement with focus on the being through somatic sacred breath-- a flowing music that spirals from the still emptiness of a once-intellectualized self toward that of a primordial embodiment.
All organic Instrumentation, voices (including choral arrangements) and authentic ceremonial/ritual elements: Composed, performed, recorded and produced by sole member Chet W. Scott
(2009-2022).
Opening prayer, spoken word and song courtesy of my dear brother, my Kola,
Tatanka Nishna Aku.
Guest sacred breath performers within "To Live Again" courtesy of
Carles Jiménez and Daniel Pablo.
Illustrated Wacanga (Mother's hair) braid spiral courtesy of my brother
James Woodhead.
Recorded on an actual sound console eschewing the use of all modern instrumentation including software simulation, manipulation and trickery at Glass Throat Recordings upon the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present. Environmental recordings and performances were captured within wild old growth rain forest and lake locations throughout the Pacific Northwestern region of Turtle Island. I raise up with honor and gratitude the Coast Salish land itself and the Dkhw Duw’Absh.
"Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light" performed and recorded within Heimskautsgerðið (The Arctic Henge), Raufarhöfn, Northeastern Iceland. As well as a remote fjord fishing cabin in Sòlbrekka, Eastern Iceland.
***AUTHENTIC INSTRUMENTATION***
used in the craft and creation of this collection featured: * original environmental recordings * grandfather elk (40" and 24" moose hide) indigenous ceremonial frame drums * horse hair beater * thunder gong * black bear bladder and elk antler bladder rattles * goat hoof shakers * voices (including animist vocal and flute mimicry) * choral arrangements * antler, horn, redwood, cedar, red willow, birch, walnut and bone indigenous drone/harmony flutes * female elk and black tail deer skull callers * vulture bone whistle * hunter's horns * gemshorn * tibetan ritual horns * clay and wood ocarinas * quartz crystal meditative bowls * antique sleigh bells * small energy bells * large brass tubular bells * antique mongolian herding bells *antique tibetan ritual bells * antique horse hide tympani *
***TESTIMONIALS***
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“A magician who uses music as practice, rather than a musician who creates magical music”
-Aurora Borealis
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“Remember to touch the earth and wash your face in it. And when you breath in that cedar wind, deep soil and rain soaked mosses through the trees, lay upon her and you will know this music.”
-White Elk
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"I sat through these four specifically designed crafts twice. I felt an out of body experience, one I’ve honestly never felt before in music. I can not wait for this album to be released!”
-Loon
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“The winds lift of an Eagle high above, while a petal that falls to the earth in beautiful decay. This I feel, is the message that embodies the medicinal art of Chet W. Scott’s Cycle of the Raven Talons”
-Cypripedioideae
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"A collection of four, twenty minute musical decents into the caves of stillness. This is not music to be taken lightly and put on as driving or background filler. These are soundscapes of an aware meditation through a profound musical experience."
-The Gods Have Not
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“The "Medicinal Musical" Chet W. Scott offers is a sound of primordial spirit. An exquisite and deeply needed plea for reconnection is persuasive and engaged.”
-The Northern Healer Rewilding Collective
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“Using really responsive ear covering headphones, I journeyed deep within this ceremonial craft. I can’t fathom I just sat still through 80 minutes of music. It honestly felt like half that duration. Afterwards, I felt clear minded and emotionally relieved. I experienced an awareness of feeling dialed into my environment so to speak. Much like a sound engineer might tune a room acoustically, these “Medicinal Musicals” Chet W. Scott calls them tuned my being... Intense!”
-Stefan Burnett
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“I sit here in tears as I write this to You. I have a 14 year old son with profound Autism. When I play the "medicinal musicals” of Cycle of the Raven Talons, I can honestly say i’ve never seen him so attentive yet calmed by the sound and feel of the work. He will sit quietly through nearly all four meditations. Thank you dearly."
-Nancy Holbeck (Mother)
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"This collection towers over me as the most transcendent piece of devotional music I've ever heard. I am stunned by Chet W. Scott's ability to create these musical pathways that root us directly to our innermost experiences. These offerings are informed not only buy the wisdom of ancients, but of what is given from within in times of surrender and stillness. Thank you for the medicine."
-James Martinez (Orb Weaver Collective)
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"In the Medicinal Musical, rhythm and primordial breath hold the space for an authentic ceremonial experience. As i entered this web of sound, I felt held in a sonic wheel of mystery, where through masterful elemental channeling, wholeness is restored."
-Lady Heron
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"Regarding "Crying" I saw two Eagles flying in a circle then transforming into flames... to become one women.
Really a beautiful and deep song."
-Celine Cix
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"Follow the breath inward
The stillness becomes movement
The movement becomes stillness
Once more connected
Rooted and liberated
Instinctual memory
The warmth of presence
Consonance of spirit
The medicine of being"
-Mist Drinker
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"Thank you for releasing that collection. As I watched the silhouetted trees against moonlight and listened, I deeply connected with the work, as a result was inspired to write on what I took away and was nourished by..."
: As it rises, upon us & o'er hinterlands,
Radiance & core of being,
Those Easterly mountainous planes,
In yore; fallen Giants we're seeing,
As it rises, exposing colossal planes,
Thawing out matter, so Nether does rise,
Re-emergence into ethereal sphere,
To realign further, than corporeal eyes,
May those Fires, upon eclipsed lands,
Cast deeper shadows like an ever arcing sea,
Wild fires of fulfilled & resolved Spirits, bridging
Across firmament, no longer to become nor be,
Submerged by black earth & moss,
The Ancient Body is acme in slumber,
Through ancestral observance, may we feed
Its dreams, from which we shall nourish & remember,
Ground awake, primordial roots,
Dismantle the stratum, duality unmasked,
Beating heart upon beaten drum,
Inhale echoes of what ancestors asked,
Final Night enclosed, as Stars are swallowed,
Once the clenched wolf jaw beckons,
So, we all, pass on through,
The Cycle of the Raven Talons :
January, 13th, MMXX
-Elurka
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