Chìsake

Timothy Archambault is an indigenous flautist and composer, member of the Kichesipirini Algonquin First Nation. He is one of the few Native American flautists to perform both traditional and contemporary classical music as he is able to play complex chromatic music on the instrument. The unaccompanied flute pieces on this album are adaptations of Anishinaabeg shaking tent chants: melodies traditionally performed in a conjuring lodge where the conjurer goes into a trance and travels through time and space as a means for ancestral divination.

Comprised of an extended cyclical sequence of 23 short Native American flute pieces, superbly recorded and preceded by a rattling call for attention, Chìsake takes the listener on a journey of immersive music where Archambault’s breath will take his or hers away, under a canopy of majestic trees standing in an ancestral forest. Music is often a journey; this one is of particular intensity!