This is a CD collection of original music supporting classic and original ballads, lullabyes, and poems. The instruments are mostly acoustic and, in certain cases, exotic. Three of the poems are from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, while Wynken, Blynken, and Nod is the classic Eugene Field lullabye. The idea was to put my quieter, softer, more acoustic material together on one album and put the more upbeat material on Dreamtime Continuum, a forthcoming CD of trance and dance world-beat fusion jazz which also features Sapphron Obois on soprano sax along with my band Dreamtime Continuum.

I play an Indian sitar, a 1971 Martin 12-string acoustic guitar, a Takamini 6-string steel electro-acoustic cutaway, an Oscar Schmidt Appalachian autoharp converted into a pentatonic zither, a Japanese Shakuhachi flute, and a Yamaha classical guitar. Sapphron plays a Selmer Mark VI soprano saxophone and a Kawai acoustic grand piano. She was involved from the onset in the production and mixing of all songs except Awakening, which Steve Miles and I produced. We also assisted in the production of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod and Shiv and the Grasshopper.

 

Sapphron Obois

Photograph by Vena Lefferts

Very special thanks to: Sapphron for her exquisite sax playing, arranging, producing, writing and mixing, Steve and Jill Miles for a million things, Mike and Lousia Kennedy for making it all happen, Gurumayi for all her blessings, Flying Girl (Morgan Taylor) for her love and support, Jeff Lidke and Megan Yalkut (and Sarita), Jonathan Kessler and Beth and Sara Moscov, Dave McMahan, Homnath Upadhyaya, Montino Bourbon, Mark Schlenz, Marshall and Vena Lefferts, Phil Lawson, Soleil Develle, Richard Cole Budhi Harlow, and all the other members of Dreamtime Continuum past and present who have performed so many of these songs with me, as wells as Joy Julks. Candy Girard, Jim Messina for his song writing tips, Sabine Eden, Victoria Carver, Mark Beaver and Annie Wells, John O'Connor, John Downes, Geoff and Vicky Cook, Janie Noble, Darla Anderson, Chiu-Nan, Meganne Forbes, Greg Wendt, Nana (my grandmother), Gilles Carter, Nunu, Lydia Deems and Bill Prothero, Anasuya Knutson, Evonne and Antonio Baylor, Ninian Smart, Barbara Holdrege, Richard Comstock, Richard Hecht, and so many other musicians, teachers, organizations, friends, and family, who have bean so supportive and inspirational.

Sudama (Mark Kennedy)

Dreamtime Continuum Records
P.O. Box 90621
Santa Barbara, CA 93190-0621

www.sudama.com
email: dreamtimecon@earthlink.net