''Crestone'' is an album by Paul Winter Consort, released in 2007 through the

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Living Music. The album is named after the community of

Crestone, Colorado The Town of Crestone is a Statutory Town in Saguache County, Colorado. According to the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 141. Crestone is located at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the n ...

. The album was recorded in the

Sangre de Cristo Mountains The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish language, Spanish for "Blood of Christ") are the southernmost mountain range, subrange of the Rocky Mountains. They are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in the United States. The mountai ...

, the Great Sand Dunes, and the

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of southern

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, all of which are located near Crestone. In

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, the album earned the group a

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for Best New Age Album.

Track listing

# "Songs to the Mountains" # "Koji Island" # "Blue Horse Special" # "Calling the Buffalo" # "Zen Morning" # "Witchi Tai To (Invocation)" # "Whooper Dance" # "Intertribal Pow-Wow Song" # "Mountain Treefrogs" # "Cloud" # "The Smell of the Rain" # "Meadowlark" # "Sunset on the Great Sand Dunes" # "Nightfall in the Wetlands" # "Moonrise Over the Sangres" # "All My Relations" # "Bumblebee Honor Song" # "Home on the Range" # "Witchi Tai to" # "Goodnight to the Mountains"

Personnel

Paul Winter Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He is a pioneer of world music and earth music, which interweaves the voices of the wild with instrumental voices from classical, jazz and world music. The ...

– soprano saxophone * Paul McCandless – oboe,

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* Don Grusin – keyboard * Eugene Friesen – cello * Glen Velez – percussion * John-Carlos Perea – voice, drum, cedar flute *

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– taiko drum * Peter May – conch shells * Richard Cooke – voice

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Grammy Award for Best New Age Album Living Music albums Paul Winter Consort albums