Illini Wind
© Copyright-Peter Adriel Kennell
(634479323546)
Record Label: Grassroots Energy Music
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After six months in Australia, where I traveled and worked as a street musician, I returned to the U.S. to do a little farming, collect my thoughts, and record a new album.
I chose the nine songs for Illini Wind, and then recorded the whole thing start to finish multiple times. What you hear is live, and was all recorded in one session. I played an electrified acoustic guitar with digital chorus and reverbs, a few different harmonicas, and a foot drum that I made from an old gasoline pump. The studio was set up in a pole barn at the family homestead in Woodford County, Illinois, and recording was finished in November of 2005."
Illini Wind is its name.
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author: Henry Ebersole
Peter's voice is awesome. Listening to Illini Wind often, a message is always there for me. It's real life stuff!
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author: Erik
Illini Wind has something rare. It is a something that you can hear on the wind as it blows through reeds if you know how to listen. It can be heard in the pained voice of some old blues singer. It can be felt in the space between a campfire and darkness when there ain't no moon and the night is cold. It is a something that comes from the soil and strives to unite us...unite us through sorrow, through joy, through peace, or through longing. It is that part of ourselves that we like to think of, have named 'human', and so blatantly ignore. Illini Wind suggests we listen...
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