Skin on Skin

Track Listings

 
1. Holy Cha Cha
2. Moovin'
3. Prayer Drums
4. Jasper Dream
5. Dolphin Run
6. Drumcircles
7. Paradise Found
8. Lakota Winds
9. Rain Maker
10. Drumba
11. Medicine Woman
12. Tiger Lilies
13. Unity

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
 Michael Fitzsimmons
1703 Ontario St.

Michael Fitzsimmons is a percussionist, composer and recording artist with Dancing Man Music. His most recent recordings include Skin on Skin (2002), recipient of a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship Award, Light in the Village (1994), Coyote Oldman records, In Medicine River (1992) with Michael Graham Allen, Coyote Oldman records, Joydance (1990), and Sunshower (1987). He has composed and performed music for Robert Bly’s Tatterhood, and adaptations of Snow White, and Cinderella for the Omaha Emmy Gifford Children’s Theater. Fitzsimmons also accompanies storyteller Nancy Duncan’s Coyote, Good Old Crunchy Stories II, and The Cat that Walked by Himself with his original score. He is a percussionist with the Sacred Heart Freedom Choir under the direction of James Bogess, Always/Never Coming Home directed by Bill Kirk, and the Jimmy Mitchell Trio.

Michael is a solo artist with the Nebraska Arts Council’s Touring Program, performing in schools, communities, and corporate settings. As a master teaching artist with University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Arts Are Basic, and a resident teaching artist with Nebraska Arts Council, Fitzsimmons provides programs for music and story as a way of learning at many regional schools. He is a skilled performer of diverse percussion instruments including drums, African instruments, kalimba (thumb piano), Plains Indian flutes, Brazilian percussion flutes, various bamboo flutes, and dulcimer.

Product Description
Powerful selections from musical "canvases" and "stories" from the past five or six years. A wide and wild collection of hand drums, log drums, drum set, Lakota flutes, Brazilian percussion flutes, bamboo flutes from Central and South America, carved wooden whistles, kalimbas (thumb pianos) from South Africa, mbiras and ritual rattles from Tanzania, seed pods from New Melleray abbey in Dubuque, Iowa, hand-made bronze bells, synthesized sounds, dulcimer, and voice.

Skin on Skin,Michael Fitzsimmons,Dancing Man Music,A chilling, dreamy and captivating fusion of World Beat colors and landscapes, featuring percussion.

New Age Music:

  1. South Pacific: Island Music
  2. Spanish Grease
  3. Spirit of Venice
  4. Sum
  5. Sus 22 Mejores Canciones [Import]
  6. Timoneiro [Import]
  7. Timoneiro [Import]
  8. Tinto E Tropical [Import]
  9. Todos en un Cantar [Import]
  10. Turbulence

New Age Music

new age music

New Age Music

Vendetta Live Sessions V.3 [Import]

Ballet: Bar Exercises

Antoine De Bertrand~Les Amours de Ronsard

Music: Le Grandi Voci Della Canzone Italiana [Import]

A Walk in the Clouds [Original recording remastered] [Soundtrack]

Bad Boys of Rap 2 [Explicit Lyrics]

American Beauty

Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night [Import]

Along the Shore of Acadia

Berlioz: La damnation de Faust / von Stade, Riegel, van Dam, Solti

Befour [Original recording remastered] [Import]

3 Decadas de Su Musica

Angels

Prokofiev: The Five Piano Concertos

Echoes of Nature: Thunderstorm