SAGEWING Under the Big Sky
Sagewing
Magic flute and merry voices Sing of earth and sky...
Four hearts beat as family
One
Sound fills space/time With love and life -
The love of life,
Celebrate your vision one world aligned and full of life...
Streams of music ride forth upon the strings into the soul
All spirits dance together
Dance to remember the prime mover moves everything moves through all through the music, mind and matter to
vibrate with your wings".
-Dale Wayne Jackson 7/16/94
Sagewing’s music is a
Transformational blend of chamber instruments
in a folk/rock style.
Celtic Harp, Violin, Cello, and Flute with
beautiful vocal harmonies touch your heart
reflecting the wonder of our natural world and the interconnectedness of all beings…
The Genesis of Sagewing--
Celtic Harp/Vocalist Bobbie Jo Curley, Violinist/Dov,
Cellist/Harry Gilbert, and Flautist/Suzanne Teng
—centered around concerts that promoted
higher understanding of our connectedness
with all things around us,
and the quest for advancing
awareness and respect for our Mother Earth
Sagewing was selected to kick off the
1992 Earthwalk at Universal Studios
with 5,000 people listening to
Dov’s “Earth Day, Every Day”—
a song that tells us that there should be
more than one day a year to honor our Earth.
On the Earthday Creation CD,
Sagewing was produced by Nils Jiptner, Dave Hart,
Roger Curley and live recordings by Brian May
who often hosted the band on his radio show
“Malibu Folk”.
Nature sounds connect the pieces into a journey.
Sagewing has opened for Iron Butterfly at the Roxy,
performed the Hollywood Bowl Arts Fair,
The Annual Wildflower Show in Malibu,
numerous Eco Expos and Earthday Fairs,
McCabes in Santa Monica,
Concerts for the National Park Service,
the rededication of the Arroyo Seco to
Hahamongna Valley (the original name),
for Brian May and his Malibu Folk Radio show,
numerous coffee houses, benefits for Topanga Days,
television and other radio shows (KPFK and others),
The Amazon and many other outdoor parks and
wilderness areas,
The Earth Trust Foundation, Les Domes,
and countless other venues.
Through their musical messages,
Sagewing has inspired many people to
feel more connected to each other
and to the voices of our planet
Under the Big Sky
The Genesis of Sagewing--
Celtic Harp/Vocalist Bobbie Jo Curley, Violinist/Dov,
Cellist/Harry Gilbert, and Flautist/Suzanne Teng—
centered around concerts that promoted
Higher understanding of our connectedness
with all things around us,
and the quest for advancing awareness
and respect for our Mother Earth
Love Has No Walls
A Great version of Bobbie Jo's song 😉
Written for her boyfriend Roger while they were in the throws of young lusty love
😉
A True Love can be felt across the miles between,
then together...even a simple meal provokes deep desires...
WILD
Let's keep the Wild Places...
WILD
Topanga Dreams
Sagewing’s music is A Genuine product of the
Peaceful forest among the pleasant hills of
Topagna...
...a Transformational blend of chamber instruments
in a folk/rock style
Celtic Harp, Violin, Cello, and Flute with
Beautiful vocal harmonies touch your heart reflecting
the wonder of our natural world and the
Interconnectedness of all beings…
By planting gardens in our yards instead of grass—
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!
...ok, ya grow grass... it's worth more than gold 😉
Protect our streams and water supplies—
desalinate ocean water for more supply.
La Paz does it!
Constantly move towards solar and wind energy—
recycle and reuse!!
Replace the asphalt and concrete in our schoolyards with
grass fields, trees, plants, and vegetables.
Choose your products carefully—read the labels!
Is it organic? Local food? A sustainable resource?
Learning the language of music and art—
Bring it back to the schools!!!!
Topanga
Our dear friend Dov is like a true child of nature
😉
His connection to the Peaceful Splender of Topanga
is revealed in the deep inspirational magic that
flows from this blessed place & into Dov's music.
Dov takes his Topanga roots to his
Hawaiian home away from Topanga
Sagewing is all about saving our
Precious
World & all of her resources
Can't Look Back
After sailing halfway around the world to the west
then another world passage to the east finds our
good ship & crew in the heart of the Caribbean.
I found this cool Rasta gal Celay jamin’ on the steel drums
& singin’ in da Reggae Style near the waterfront in
Marina Del Rey while on a bike ride.
Took her card & months later had her come over
and record these roots Reggae vocal arrangements
that prelude the song.
Magic happened when she got into her part
and soon was making corrections to my phonetics,
she changed a few words around to better
‘be’ in da tropical island vernacular …
Instead of I have been sailing…it now goes “I B Sailin’”…
I recorded Celay’s vocal arrangements on a new
24 track 2” tape.
When we were done tracking her vocals
I mixed them down to the two track-mastering recorder.
Now the trick here is to record this vocal track back on to the
main 24 track tape session at just the right time to be
in sync with the song…
It’s generally a hit & miss process,
cue up the two track tape deck’s vocal part,
press play on the 24 track machine & the two track
then put the 24 track in ‘Record’…
At best you can only hope to be reasonably Close,
but some how
with the first try the vocals landed on an
un-expected ‘up-beat’ and our vocal arrangement of
‘Oooohs & Aughs’ now took on a very different
but swanky funk feel.
(It was more sort of a “one-e-and- a” timing)
Listen to this funky feel just after the vocal prelude part &
right when the steel drums intro in the main song.
Celay continues to belt out authentic
Caribbean church choir power Oooohs & Aughs’
throughout the song.
Steel Drums are played by percussion extraordinaire
Ray McMamara, whom shortly after got a cool gig
with Jimmy Buffet’s steel drum player.
Ray is a Cal Arts Grad & his virtuoso performance
on this song really takes you to the
hopin’ beaches of Trinidad.
In the Ska tradition I brought together a horn section
with Trombone, Sax & Trumpet
that really laid down the slamin horn tracks
make the song snap.
The Trombone & Trumpet play inter-woven solos,
followed by Ray on the Steel Drums.
Taking the long jam home…the long way… 😉
is Charles Hayes of Ike & ‘THE’ Tina Turner fame.
This guys’ got character & so does his sax,
if you listen real carefully near the end
you can hear his pad smacking when levered with gusto…
left it in as part of the magic!
A midi keyboard sample of a real Hammond B-3 organ
was played by Bobbie Jo Curley &
recorded into the midi sequencer computer,
which ran in sync with the smpte time code
on the analog tape.
When the song was beign mixed, the output of the
B3 organ sound was plugged into a real
Lesley Rotating Speaker System,
mic’d in stereo & added to the mix in real time.
While mixing the song & pressed the ‘slow & fast’ buttons
to change the speed of the Rotating Lesley Speakers.
At the end of the song you can clearly hear
the Hammond B3 swirling with all it’s glory
during the fade out 😉