Celebrating 30 Years of Award-Winning Music – Part 2

Sharing our thoughts about our awards and music, continued.

With our new album Groove Tribe winning the 2012 COVR Visionary Award for Best World Album, that makes the fourth year that our music has won in this category!    Our previous album Gratitude: Relaxing Native American Flute Music won the 2011 COVR Visionary Award for Best World Album; our CD/DVD 2-disc set Earth Drum won the 2008 COVR Visionary Award for Best World Album and in 2000, our album Drum Medicine also won the COVR Visionary Award for Best World Music.

It’s hard to believe but there have been 2 times when our albums won both the COVR Award for Best World Album and the COVR Award for Record of the year – in 2000 for Drum Medicine and in 2008 for Earth Drum!

But it’s not only our world drumming music that has been awarded.  In 2003, our ambient healing album Heart of Peace won the Backroads Best Meditation/Healing Music Award.

When we are composing, we follow our own inspiration and when the result is something that we feel strongly we hope that other people will connect with it too. But when those albums win these kinds of awards, we then know it’s working because they tell us that there is something very special about them that other people have felt too.

In the same way, we could not be happier when we see other artists and albums released on Sequoia Records win awards also.  When we decide to release an artist’s music on our label or create a compilation of songs, it’s because we feel there is something deep and worthwhile about that artist’s music or the songs on that compilation that deserves to be heard.

Examples include Le Spa Sonique, by Jens Gad, the brilliant composer behind the chill out downtempo group Achillea, that won the 2006 Calmscape Award for
Best Album of the Year.

And Gary Stadler, well known for his enchanting fairy music, received the Musical Starstreams Best New Age Album of the year award in 2000 for his album
Fairy Heart Magic.

Stay tuned for part 3 soon.

Walk in Peace,

David & Steve