Coyote Oldman - Thunder Chord

Primary Artist
Coyote Oldman
Album Title
Thunder Chord
Release Date
1990 
Time
42:01 
Review by Steven McDonald
The problem with rating this album is that to develop an opinion you have to focus in on the conscious world, and that's not at all what this is about. Thunder Chord, formed of a music that has roots in ancient American Indian ritual but crosses also into other ancient forms and loops back to modern studio technology, is about going beyond what we know of as the real-world conscious state. As with Mickey Hart and his current experiments in tinkering with the psyche through music, the two performers (and composers and archaeologists) who make up Coyote Oldman are looking for the inner rhythms. Read More