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Robert Mirabal "In the Blood"
Nominated 2007 "Best Rock CD" Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards!
After a four-year hiatus, Robert Mirabal is back with the strongest album of his career. The thirteen tracks on "In the Blood" blend scenes from the American experience-past, present and future-with themes from contemporary Native life, some sung in English and others in Mirabal's native tongue, Tiwa.
Love songs merge with ghost songs that further roll into Americana ballads and full-on tribal rockers. Produced by Nashville legend Andy Byrd, the record will please dyed-in-the-wool Mirabal fans as well as attracting a brand new following. "It's the strongest songwriting and performance that I've heard being put forth today from an indigenous point-of-view," says Byrd. "This album follows a narrative cycle of songs that reflects the quest for a brighter future."
In your blood is me forever...
"This collection of songs reflects the traditional life I live at Taos Pueblo, and also the experiences of a man fortunate enough to travel the world. Many of these songs are sung in Tiwa, my native tongue, which is not a written langueage but passed orally from one generation to the next. If you live a traditional life, you see things differently - spiritually and musically. My music is informed by the ceremonial music I've heard all my life. What I create comes out of my body and soul in a desire to take care of the spirits of the earth."
~ Blessings, Robert Mirabal
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