

Native Flutes
Compilation
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"You
will notice that everything that a indian does is in a circle, because the
power of the world is always in a circle... The sky is round as are the
stars and even the seasons form a circle in their changing. The life of
man is a circle from childhood to childhood."
Black Elk (Lakota Elder)


The following interview with Gil Silverbird
is from December 2009
(OMG)- Hey Gil, thanks for taking the time to speak with us for a few
minutes. So,what have you got going these days?
(GS)- I am currently working on a one man show that is about the evolution
of life and the concepts of Creator it's called "Pure Medicine."
I am working on a new flute album and song album. I am now learning Norwegian
and I plan on focusing on a TV show in Norway. I just finished a book
entitled "Live within or Live without". So I'm pretty busy these
days!
(OMG)- Wow! No doubt. So, you're living in Norway now. How did that come
about?
(GS)- I had stopped working in the system for a ten year period because
I was caught up in the age old question of, "Who am I, what am I
and why am I?" Then one day i decide to buy my first computer and
slowly started integrating myself back into the world. Then I got a group
email that said. "Do you play the piano and use a rhythm machine?"?
I answered the email and the person lived three blocks away from me in
New York City, where Iwas living at the time. He asked if i wanted to
work in Norway. I said, "Why not." Voila, and here I am. I love
the people here. they are clean and FAIR. Fair being the key word. Not
to mention Norways clean water. So I landed here.
(OMG)- Yeah "spirit" takes us on interesting paths sometimes,
if we're willing....Are you currently touring?
(GS)- Yes and no. I am doing shows here and there but they are sporadic
gigs that I get paid for and I am not doing original music. I also tour
doing "Motivational Awareness" seminars.
(OMG)-Your album "World Peace"
is seeing a renewed presence since its initial release. It's a very uplifting
album with some great messages in it. Why the resurgence and what was
your original vision when you wrote it?
(GS)- Well having a label put the kind of efforts behind a release like
Oyate Music Recordings has with World Peace is definative in its potential
success! I live life on the premise that it is not mine and this body's
purpose is to portray the reality of the world peace that lives within
all of us. I am life and as life I have the teachings of infinite knowledge
within every eternal moment in order to expose any and all confusion for
what it realistically is, obsolete and transparent within the realm of
life. I am this life I am speaking of. I am not afraid to admit being
life or creator or breath or perfect as nature intended these physical
machines to be. I have no thought or doubts about how perfect I was made.
In the same sense and reality I see everyone as perfect creations of life
nature and creator. We are made as all creations are made as the conduits
of GOD.
(OMG)- You received a NAMMY award in 2006
for Debut Artist of the Year. Has this helped you in your musical career
and what was the experience like for you?
(GS)- I am not sure. I don't usually talk or think about it. (The NAMMY)
I loved hanging with Redbone and John Trudell, Ellen Bello and the other
Native people there. When the Native people's come together it is a time
of soul food and celebration. We don't gather to speak about the future
of the world. We celebrate and enjoy the moments that are generated by
our beautiful beings. Our existence. I enjoy this extreme and balanced
gathering.
(OMG)- You've signed with Oyate Music
Recordings. How is that working for you?
(GS)- I am very over-joyed with someone like Tony Palmer coming to my
glass and filling it up with love. This is how I see the folks at Oyate
Music! They are a very positive vehicle for me, and the world, and I am
happy for the experience. If this relationship were to end now Iam so
much better for it and my cup has been filled a thousand times over because
of it.
(OMG)- What's in the immediate future
for Gil Silverbird?
(GS)- I will continue to sip on Complete Euphoria as usual. Life
is here and I am life. I am here and I remember who and what I am. The
purpose of life or me is to unite, as water unites everything on this
planet. the blood of life is water and we are united by this blood. I
love Tony Palmer and all the Oyate Music family. I am gifted with complete
life which is everything and I will continue to be the vessel for creation
that is life.
Music is life. Life is music. Creation.
(OMG)- Thanks for your words Gil! Onwards
and upwards!