Track listing

1. Psalm of Solstice
2. The Dark Around Us
3. Over the River
4. The Wild Geese
5. Throw the Window Open
6. Finches
7. Window Tree
8. For the Future
9. To the Holy Spirit
10. Thrush Song
11. Come Life Shaker Life
12. Walking at Night
13. Great Trees
14. Hunger and Thirst
15. Shake These Bones
16. How Long Watchman
17. Lay Me Low
18. Paradise
19. Hosanna

Ooolitic Music OM 1111 (1999)

A Ceremony of Songs for Choir, Hammer Dulcimer and Percussion.

• Glen Velez: Percussion
• Malcolm Dalglish: Hammer Dulcimer, Vocals
• The Ooolites: Vocals

There are moments in nature when wordless poetry washes over me, and I feel lost in the rhythm of a pure sound or vision. Hymns gather together people, words, and music to memorialize these transcendent moments in our lives. I found the poetry of Wendell Berry and the mysterious and primitive sound of the dulcimer, frame drums and shakers to be ideal collaborators in this broadly defined Hymnody.

Malcolm Dalglish

The music is comprised of wafting, zephyrlike emanations. Berry’s words are lifted like feathers on the slimmest slivers of melody. A stirring experience.

Bloomington Herald-Times

… a brilliant achievement … the American counterpart to Benjamin Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ … a moving and inspired work.

Dan Gawthrop, WETA-FM