In the Heart of the Desert: Music for Voice and Percussion
Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, and John Pennington

Features
Features an array of unusual percussion instruments including the mbira, crotales, caxixi, shekere, congas, Filipino buzzing sticks and many others.
What do you get when you put a Camaldolese monk known for his experimentation with chant forms and a world class percussionist/music professor together in one room?
You might end up with In the Heart of the Desert, a collection of music that crosses boundaries to find the sacred sound at the heart of the spiritual journey.

This collection is a mix of instrumentals and songs with rhythms from around the world.
The song texts are drawn from a wellspring of ancient sacred sources -- Buddhist and Hindu as well as Christian.
In the Heart of the Desert features an array of unusual percussion instruments including the mbira, crotales, caxixi, shekere, congas, Filipino buzzing sticks and many others.

Tracks
Animas Run
Benedicta Es Tu
Dance of the Seventh Sky
I Will Bow and Be Simple
In the Heart of the Desert
Lead Me from Death Into Life
Mirror No. 1
Mountain Poem #13 O Virtus Sapientiae
Phoenix
Rachel’s Lament This Is Who You Are

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