Album Notes

Award winning and renown hammered dulcimer composer/performer Dr. Charlene Helen Berry and classically trained virtuoso composer James D. Taylor, Jr. lead you through a journey of meditative improvisational dulcimer perfromances accompanied by natural sounds recorded around the State of Michigan.

"As humans progressed into the machine age, they slowly began to detach themselves from the rhythms of nature. The frequencies of mechanical and electronic rhythms now replace those naturally regulating rhythms often resulting in stress. Native Americans understand the importance of maintaining these natural rhythms for a healthy mind and spirit."--James D. Taylor, Jr.

"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters"--Isaiah 55:1.

"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said [Isa. 58:11], streams of living water will flow from within him."Jesus (John 7:37-38.