Our Pick: CD took 10 years, but worth the wait

Artist-Art Napoleon
Album-MIYOSKAMIN
Song-Buffalo Heart
Label-Independent
Producers-Zak Cohen and Art Napoleon

He independently released his first CD in 1996. Now 10 years later, Art Napoleon's long-awaited second CD entitled MIYOSKAMIN is now available.

The release concert for Napoleon's CD was held at Camosun College in Victoria, B.C. on April 15.

Napoleon, a.k.a. Travelling Sun, is a former chief of the Saulteaux First Nation located in northeastern British Columbia. He is a Cree singer, songwriter and storyteller who attempts to engage his audience with influences from country, rock and tribal sounds.

His powerful, yet comforting voice, accompanied by his acoustic strums, tells of a life filled with experience. His mystical chants are deeply moving, and sometimes humorous.

Many of the 13 tracks are performed in Cree and are fused with folk-country songs performed in English bringing balance from both worlds.

Guest musicians on MIYOSKAMIN include Sandy Scofield, violinist Calvin Cairns, Spirit of the West bassist Tobin Frank and legendary blues troubadour Ken Hamm.

Napoleon was awarded the Telefilm-APTN award for best Aboriginal production at the Banff Television Festival in 2002 for a children's TV show. Although he has been busy in the studio with the recording of another CD to be released in 2007, Napoleon tours regularly as a performer, workshop facilitator, speaker and emcee.

Napoleon's new CD is available through www.pacificmusic.net Catalog #PM 21195. To learn more about the intense yet spiritual music of Napoleon or to obtain a bannock recipe visit www.artnapoleon.com.