Michael Stearns, Ron Sunsinger & Steve Roach - Kiva

The Kiva symbolized the mythic realm from which the first human beings emerged. For visionary composers STEVE ROACH, MICHAEL STEARNS and RON SUNSINGER, Kiva is a realm of pure sound which transforms the everyday world into a conduit for the extraordinary. For over a thousand years, Native Americans of the Southwest have gathered in Kivas, subterranean ceremonial structures marked by a single ladder protruding from the ground. Isolated from ordinary concerns, members of the tribe meet in these cavernous underground circles to sing songs, tell tales, perform secret rituals, and share visions. To ancient Native Americans the Kiva was a church within the womb of the earth. The Kiva symbolized the mythic underground realm from which the first human beings emerged. The Kiva was a place of remembrance, of healing, of meditation on the origins and destinies of the tribe. For audio-visionary composers STEVE ROACH, MICHAEL STEARNS and RON SUNSINGER, Kiva is a realm of pure sound shaped into a po