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Mars Lasar an accomplished sound designer, visual artist/photographer, and song writer has released a new CD entitled "Tahoe Spirit" which features our very own David Rose on NAF!
Mars boasts an impressive list of credits in both the mainstream and broadcast marketplaces. You have probably heard his music and didn't know it!
Tahoe Spirit captures the magic of the Great North Western Sierra Nevada wilderness.
This collection of eclectic songs will take you on a journey, inspired by the rugged mountains,
soaring landscapes and the vastness of Lake Tahoe, the center and heart of Washoe Indian territory.
Traditional Native Flutes played by David Rose from band “Painted Ravin” adds to the mystery and majesty
of Mars Lasar’s sonic landscapes. Sit back and relax while you take in the inspirations of Tahoe Spirit.
• Pre-Order Tahoe Spirit . . . orders ship November 9th
Immediately before the advent of the white man, eastern Pennsylvania was inhabited principally by groups belonging linguistically to the Algonquians, who occupied a more extended area than any other linguistic stock in North America. An important tribe within this group was the Lenni-Lenape, or 'original people,' known historically as the Delaware.
The tribe consisted of three principal subtribes: The Unami or Wonamey, the Minsi or Munsee, and the Unalachtigo or Unalatka, each having its own territory and slightly different dialect. According to Lenape tradition, they had migrated into eastern Pennsylvania from the west, the tribal divisions later receiving their names from some geographic or other peculiarity characterizing the region in which they lived.
The Unami, using the turtle as their totem, inhabited the Delaware River Valley from the junction of the Lehigh River southward to what is now New Castle, Delaware. The Minsi, or Wolves, occupied the headwaters of the Delaware as far south as the Lehigh. The Unalachtigo, or Turkeys, lived on the west bank of the Delaware, in what is now the State of that name, and on the east bank in the present New Jersey. The Delaware had declined in power and dignity by the time Pennsylvania history began, and also had undergone a considerable redistribution in population areas. The Delaware within the present limits of Pennsylvania numbered only a few thousand when Penn came into the territory, and had become the vassals of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Delaware were tall, broad-shouldered, small-waisted, and erect, with tawny reddish-brown complexion and straight black hair. Their hair was usually worn long, but sometimes they burned off all except a scalp lock. They wore no beards; hairs of the face were plucked out with pincers made of clam shells or small fiat stones; their cheekbones were broad and high, and their eyes small and dark. Among their musical instruments were the drum, rattle, gourd, and a sort of flute fashioned from a reed or a deer's tibia. They also had an instrument through which they could emit a howling, melancholy sound. They never developed harmony in instrumental music, although, like many other tribes, they achieved harmonic effects in choral singing.
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