DENNIS REA - GIANT STEPPES

• dennis rea: giant steppes
      (2021, cd, usa, moonjune records)

I started the day with Dennis Rea's brand-new album. On repeat.

Guitarist and composer Dennis Rea continues his musical journey around the world. Literally. Where his previous release focused on China and Tawain (where Dennis and his wife, Anne, lived for a while in the early 1990s), his latest endeavors took him to him to Russia and to Tuva.
The adventure resulted in a book, "Tuva And Busted", and the accompanying "Giant Steppes" album.

"Giant Steppes" offers four tracks, traditional Tuva songs, recorded in Seattle and in Tuva.
Although the pieces are quite different, they fit well together.

Thanks to Leonardo Pavlovic / Moonjune Records for making this available.

Essential listening (and reading):

Here's an audience recordings of one of the concerts that's described in the book
http://blueearbooks.com/books/tuva-and-busted/

Dennis Rea & Terrane feat. Sailyk Ommun performing Sun Ra's 'Love In Outer Space'.