Well known for her adept, soulful renderings of classic jazz and blues songs, Christine Autumn has been a fixture on the Taos music scene for years.  Black Matter,  her breakout CD of her self composed vocals, sparkles with the same blessed candor and originality that make Christine treasured by her friends and beloved by her students in her day job as a teacher in the Taos public schools.

Black Matter is Dog Soldier Press first musical production. The remainder of our music products arrived when we acquired the inventory of our sister company High Star Productions, Inc when High Star was dissolved in June 2009.

The two collections of Lakota Sacred Songs, known individually as Songs To Learn By and Sung As In Ceremony, were produced by High Star  to accompany Howard Bad Hand's book Native American Healing, also available from Dog Soldier Press. In Songs to Learn By, Howard sings at  a slower pace and special effort to clearly enunciate Lakota words to aid non-Lakota speakers in learning the music. In Sung As In Ceremony Howard and Tom Teegarden, accompanied by a hand drum, sing at the same pace and volume one might expect to hear in a real life Lakota Ceremony.

The Red Leaf Singers, composed primarily of older members of the Bad Hand Hand family from  were widely known for both their musicality and their rich repertoire of traditional Lakota music. Their Songs of the Warrior Volume 1 CD contains a cycle of the Lakota victory songs for which they were rightly well known.

The remaining albums feature the music of Red Leaf Takoja, whose members include younger Bad Hands as well as Tom Teegarden, Richard Archuleta, Butch Brown and other fine singers from New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota, and who was one of the supergroups on the North American powwow circuit in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many Red Leaf Takoja songs, composed by group members, have timeless qualities that have ensured their continued performance on the powwow circuit to the current day. Their Live at Taos Blue Lake Powwow album is, we believe, one of the best selling powwow albums of all time judging by sales volume. We have it on good authority that as recently as 2009, Live at Taos merited the dubious distinction of being number 1 on the “Most Commonly Stolen” list on the contemporary powwow circuit.