Marc Anderson: African drums, voice, guitar, mbira, steel drum, dumbek, frame drums, sampled and tape source sounds, berimbau, kantele, tuned gongs, clay pots, percussion
Barbara Cohen: vocals
Bruce Henry: vocals
Laura Mackenzie: medieval greatpipes
Dean Magraw: electric guitar
Sowah Mensah: dansuom (water drums)
Kevin Nord: trumpet, harmonized trumpet
Peter Ostroushko: fiddle
Enrique Toussaint: electric bass, flutes, percussion
Movie
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Gati
French Bourrees
I Was So Seldom Alone
Red Red
Austin Daiko
People Are Leaving
Red Shift
www,marcanderson.com
Special thanks to: Steve Tibbetts, Jim Anton, Ruth Mackenzie, Jim Ray, Bones, Justin, Brandy, Trevor, Jane, Dosho and all of the talented and kind hearted musicians that brought their spirit to this music.
Marc Anderson plays Paiste cymbals and gongs
All of the music on this CD was recorded at Studi-oh in St. Paul. Engineered and mixed by Marc Anderson. Mastering Greg Rierson (?) at Precision Powerhouse
Front cover photo Marc Anderson
Back cover photo Laurie Schneider
Inside cover photos?
Layout and design Philip Blackburn
Ruby Regner 1909 – 1998
Oh my sweet grandmother, you are gone
The heat fallen away from your fragile body
Once you were the fiery red gem
But the long prairie winters of broken stones and lonely stars
Calling year after year
Wore you down to a frail spark, a trembling ember
Finally, tired through your bones
You faded to the silence
After a whisper your pale blue eyes
Turned into small birds and returned home
To be with your brother and sisters
Where the English spoken is easy like a porch swing
You carried us all like a forgotten river through your life
For a brief moment or one brilliant autumn
We were all yours
Wrapped in the sweet smell of Sundays
But it ends
And you could not save us from ourselves
Remember when you laid there in bed
Already small as a child and disappearing before our eyes
And I stroked your beautiful white hair
And we held hands for the last time
Remember what I whispered in your ear
Remember what you whispered to me
Remember…
That is how it will always be