Books, CDs and Videos For Sale

The following books and CD recordings can be ordered through Burnt Earth.

 

From Mud to Music
Making and Enjoying Ceramic Musical Instruments

by Barry Hall

From Mud to Music is a large format book of over 250 pages with more than 500 color photographs and a 74-minute compact disc representing the work of over 100 ceramic artists from around the world. Click here for more information and sound samples. If you would like your copy signed by the author, and/or personalized, please indicate in your order or email me

Price: $59.95 plus $6 shipping (via media mail) to destinations within the USA. We are currently not shipping this item to destinations outside the USA.

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Terra Cotta
The Burnt Earth Ensemble

The Burnt Earth Ensemble performs music exclusively on ceramic musical instruments. This CD captures many facets of the sounds of clay in an evocative collection of the ensemble’s original music, with influences drawn from jazz, medieval, Celtic, African and Native American styles. From the haunting, ethereal flute melodies of “Pangea” to the raucous fiddle and drums of “Siberian Hoedown”, the Burnt Earth ensemble coaxes imaginative sounds and heart-felt music from the material of the Earth herself. The ensemble’s array of clay instruments ranges from the ordinary to the exotic, including flutes, ocarinas, fiddles, doumbeks, udu drums, didjeridus, nose flutes, and globular horns. 19 tracks, over 71 minutes of clay. Features Barry Hall, Richard Smith, Beth Hall, Geoff Brown and guest appearances by Stephen Kent, Mark Attebery and Alan Tower. Click here for more information and sound samples.

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Udu: Clay Pot Drums and How to Play Them
by Barry Hall

An instructional video covering the clay pot ('udu") drum and different techniques for playing it. Basic playing strokes are explained and demonstrated in detail, as well as more advanced strokes and rhythms. Several musical performances showing udus combined with other instruments round out the video. 95 minutes, NTSC. For more information click here.

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A Feast of Songs
Barry and Beth Hall

A lively collection of familiar and unusual traditional songs and dances from the middle ages that celebrate the winter season and its associated festivals and holidays. Songs from the British Isles, Ireland, Germany, France, Poland and Sweden blend medieval and renaissance tonalities with a festive folk flavor. Barry and Beth Hall perform on voice, vielle, lute, dulcimer, viola, violin, mandolin, guitar, sitgar, flute, recorders, French horn, herald trumpet, doumbek, tar, bodhrán, tabor, tambourine, cymbals, bells, African drums, and other percussion instruments.
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Triple Spiral
Unearthed

Triple Spiral performs Celtic-influenced music from Brittany, France, England and the Scottish Isles and Highlands. The band's repertoire includes traditional and original songs performed on an array of unusual instruments including bagpipes, bouzouki and hurdy-gurdy. Triple Spiral’s debut recording “Unearthed” features lively dance tunes and haunting songs with rousing five-part vocal harmonies sung in Breton, Scots Gaelic, French and English. Click here for sound samples.

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Trouz Bras and Friends
Celtic Music from Brittany

Trouz Bras (pronounced “Trooz Brazz”) means "Big Noise" in the Celtic language of Brittany, the northwestern region of France. It also translates as “Great Sound” – a reference to the loud Breton bagpipes that fuel the band’s driving sound. Firmly rooted in the trance-like medieval spiral dances of Brittany, Trouz Bras catapults traditional Breton dance tunes into the 21st century with blistering bagpipes, soaring fiddle and a rocking rhythm section. Led by bagpiper and vocalist Ray Price, a globetrotting expert in Breton music and dance, this CD also features Barry Hall on fiddle, vielle, bouzouki and vocals, Matthew Brown on bass and Mance Grady on bodhrán and percussion. The CD includes tracks by the band as well as contributions by each of its members performing with other guest artists. The result is a high-energy collection of Celtic music from Brittany, France and Ireland.

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The Eternal Presence

The Eternal Presence brings together four didjeridu virtuosos from around the globe (Rafael Bejarano, Jusse Nayeli, Barry Hall and Alan Tower) to perform new compositions in a remarkable natural setting - a richly reverberant stone tunnel perched high above the Pacific Ocean. Transformed by the dense quiet of the night into a cathedral-like chamber for sacred sound, the tunnel becomes one of the players, contributing a powerful resonance that shapes every note of the performance. The resulting CD is an extended, continuous cycle of eleven interwoven compositions that takes the listener on a journey through landscapes that are ethereal, introspective and invigorating. This makes it an ideal accompaniment for meditation and "deep listening", as well as a wonderful tool to enhance yoga, massage or other body and healing work. Click here for more information and sound samples.

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QWIRE
Qwire is a Silicon Valley musical group. Fusing jazz, rock and experimental music, the band explores various avenues of interaction by making extensive use of technology including digital interfaces and live sampling. Qwire features Chris Chafe on celletto (electronic cello), Stanley Jungleib on keyboards and bass, Fred Malouf on MIDI guitar, and Barry Hall on electric violin and bass. This 64 minute self-titled CD by Qwire was recorded live direct-to-digital in Stanford University's state-of-the-art digital multitrack studio. It features the members of Qwire plus Muruga Booker on drums and percussion. Click here for more information and sound samples

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