New CD Release
"BEYOND THE WIND"
Ubaka Hill (ooh-ba-ka), a native New Yorker, a drummer, percussionist, vocalist, songwriter, composer, poet and teacher of hand drumming inspires healing and soulful joy.
Ubaka has been an inspiration to many for 30 years of her professional career as a performer and teacher throughout the United States and international communities. She is the Founder/Director of the Drumsong Institute Museum, Archive, and Library of Women’s Drum and Percussion Traditions and co-founder/ co-producer of “The Happen’n” in Upstate New York. Ubaka is recognized as a motivational speaker, visionary, and fine art oil painter. She is the “first teacher” of many hand drummers.
Ubaka’s musical approach embodies various ideas to create authentic, melodic and rhythmic music from the cosmic to the ordinary, ancient to contemporary; intentional music that motivates and reflects our expanding minds, changing beliefs and the birth of new drumming traditions. Ubaka’s primary instruments are her voice and hand drums. The Djembe and the Ube (ooh-bay) are the drums she plays most often.
The ‘Ube“ is Ubaka’s Signature Drum made by Raven Tekwe.
She is the Musical Director of her professional ensemble, The ShapeShifters; a multi-cultural, multi-instrument ensemble of talented, skilled musicians, some she has played with for over 13 years. Each woman brings her unique musical gifts to co-create soundscapes that reveal the power of intentional music. Ubaka is also the Founder/Musical Director of The Drumsong Orchestra, a national, folkloric, multi-cultural, diverse ensemble of female drummers and percussionists of all ages and skill levels.
“Beyond The Wind” is Ubaka’s 3rd CD, recorded between October 2005 and May 2006. The National Drumsong Orchestra (25 participants), The ShapeShifters, and guest musicians are featured on this new recording. “Beyond The Wind” is released on Ubaka’s own label, Splevine* Music Network. *(Splendid + Divine).
Ubaka Hill “Beyond the Wind” with The ShapeShifters and The Drumsong Orchestra
(Musician List)
Ubaka Hill: Lead Vocals, Ube*, Gyil, Didgeridoo, Udu, Sticks, Bells, Dundun/ Bell, Kinkini/Bell, Batajon, Cajon, Gong, Vibraslap, Windwand, Puilis, Triangle, Cabasa, Caxixi, Gourd
Caru Thompson: Shekere, Ululation
Judy Piazza: Riq, Tar, Bodhran, Kanjira, Log Drum, Bendir
Tammi Hessen: Djembe, Steel Drum, Dundun/Bell
Melinda Alcosser: Congas
Leaf Miller: Berimbau, Rubboard, Surdo, Kpanlogo drum
Randy Crafton: Dumbeck, Kanjira, Drum Kit, Shekere, Cymbal
Valerie Naranjo: Djembe
Mosa (Mimi) Baczewska: Vocals, Rhodes, Whistles, Rattle, Owl hoot
Suhir Blackeagle: Vocals
Aleah Long: Vocals
Xtine Baczewska: Vocals
Julia Haines: Celtic Harp, Accordion
Marcie Francis: Electric Bass, Shekere
Amy Crafton: Clarinet (with twins Julia and Avery in womb 8 days before birth)
National Drumsong Orchestra “She Been Waiting”
Allyson (Ally) Buckley, IL - djembe
Authenticity Mahala, WI - djembe, shekere
Barbara Fornal, NY - djembe
Candice Lawrence, ONT, CAN - djembe, clave
Carmen Castro, NY - djembe, shekere
Comma Williams, MA - djembe, shekere
Diane Goetz, WI - djembe, frog
Donna Mattucci, NY - ashiko
Jane Rudden, NY - djembe, castanets
Karen Kading, ONT, CAN - djembe, bell
Kathy Murphy, NY - djembe, shekere
Kyle Wilson, VA - djembe, bell
Mary Helen Looper, TN - dundun, bell
Melinda Alcosser, CT - conga
Nancy Carpenter, PA - dundun, clave, shekere
Nancy W. Maloy, NY - Ube
Pamela J. Young (Pele), MI - djembe, frog
Patricia George, PA - djembe, bell
Sheila Horrell, ONT, CAN - djembe, berimbau, shekere
Sue Fitzgerald, MI - dundun, clave
Susan Wiseheart, MO - djembe, bell
Takiyah Gettys, PA - djembe, bell
Tamyala Grabill, IL - djembe, clave
Trena Saunders, NY - djembe
Wind Vogel, NY - djembe, shaker
Wondella Devers, MI - djembe, shekere
Guest singers/Musicians
Paula Walowitz, IL - Songwriter, vocal
Alix Dobkin, NY - vocal
Caru Thompson, NY - vocal, shekere, bell
Dr. Bonnie Morris, DC - vocal
Fre Atlast, CT - djembe, quica, vocal
Kesii MacKaye, NY - clave, bell
Leaf Miller, NY - surdo
Lorraine Demarest, NY - rebollo
Mosa Baczewska, NY - vocal
Ruthie Staber, NY - rattle
Victoria Cristgau, CT - vocal
Ubaka has 2 other CDs, “ShapeShifters” and “Dance The Spiral Dance” on the Ladyslipper Record label. All can be purchased at her concerts, workshops, website and music catalogues, books stores.
Bookings and Interviews
Splevine Music Network
c/o Ubaka Hill
PO Box 268, Palenville, NY 12463
518-678-0166
www.splevinemusic.com
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