Sacred Spirit

Sacred Spirit
Genres	Electronic new-age world ambient
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Higher Octave Music
Members	Claus Zundel Ralf Hamm Markus Staab pecy
Website	www.sacredspirit.de

Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm, and Markus Staab and pecy. The music is of electronic, new age, world and ambient genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales are estimated to be over 15 million copies.^[1] For each album sold, donations are made to the Native American Rights Fund, a non-profit Native American organization devoted to restoring the legal rights of Native Americans.

Discography

Albums

1994 - Sacred Spirits Yeha-Noha (ISBN 1-885381-27-1)

Track No.	Title	Length
1.	Yeha-Noha (Wishes Of Happiness & Prosperity)	4:00
2.	Tor-Cheney-Nahana (Winter Ceremony)	6:58
3.	Ya-Na-Hana (Celebrate)	7:05
4.	Dawa (Cradlesong)	4:18
5.	Ly-O-Lay Ale Loya (Circle Dance)	5:14
6.	Ta-Was-Ne (Elevation)	2:38
7.	Gitchi-Manidoo (Advice For The Young)	6:01
8.	Heya-Hee (Intertribal Rain Song)	7:37
9.	Shamanic Chant (Heal The Soul)	1:31
10.	Yo-Hey-Ohee (War Cries)	6:16
11.	Outro & Eulogy (How The West Was Lost)	3:00

1995 - Chants and Dances of the Native Americans (sometimes labeled Indians)

Track No.	Title	Length
1.	Intro & Prelude (How the West was Lost)	3.00
2.	Ly-O-Lay Ale Loya (The counterclockwise circle dance)	6:58
3.	"Normo Jovnna" remix	5:14
4.	Ya-Na-Hana (Celebrate Wild Rice)	7.05
5.	Dawa (The Cradlesong)	4.18
6.	Gitchi-Manidoo (Advice for the Young)	6.01
7.	Yeha-Noha (Wishes of happiness and prosperity)	4.02
8.	Ta-Was-Ne (Elevation)	2.38
9.	Heya-Hee (Intertribal song to stop the rain)	7.37
10.	Shamanic Chant No. 5 (Heal the soul)	1.31
11.	Yo-Hey-O-Hee (Brandishing the Tomahawk)	6.16

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA)[2]	Platinum	50,000^*
France (SNEP)[3]	2× Platinum	600,000^*
Germany (BVMI)[4]	Gold	250,000^^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[5]	Platinum	100,000^^
Sweden (GLF)[6]	Gold	50,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[7]	Platinum	300,000^^
United States	—	211,621[8]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[9]	Platinum	1,000,000^*
Worldwide	—	1,750,000[10]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

1997 - One Little Creature - Music of Fading Cultures (Pieces of Time)

Released only in Japan

Track No.	Title	Length
1.	Intro / Prelude	0:56
2.	One Little Creature (Bulgarian gaida bagpipes (large ensemble) & a Korean folksong from the kangwon province)	4:13
3.	You've Gotta Learn (three kingdoms japon)	3:54
4,	Talk to Me (throat singers from tuva meet tibetian monks)	3:53
5.	Interlude-what is aloomné? (copper eskimos of Canada's northwest territories)	1:24
6.	Mêdunya - dancing naked in the summer rain	4:12
7.	Aloomné - the inuiit salute the daylight	4:04
8.	Final call (statement of the noble warrior)	4:45
9.	Silent prayer (o´eh´bee´eh) (mouthmusic from northern island)	4:33
10.	Interlude - love's not time's fool	2:07
11.	É souber son (7 days of songs & dances with nomads of the desert)	3:37
12.	O jamboo - the mirror of the great void	4:20
13.	Don't be afraid (with love from the mekong delta)	4:55

1997 - Culture Clash (Sacred Spirit 2)[1] ( Belgium #42, Austria #43, Sweden #53, Netherlands #59 )

Track No.	Title	Length
1.	Intro	1:55
2.	Culture Clash	4:32
3.	Lay Down	4:40
4.	On the Road	4:14
5.	Legends	7:02
6.	i. No More Cotton, ii. Interlude To Be a Slave	3:45
7.	The Sun Won't Talk no More	7:46
8.	Black Progress	3:18
9.	Roots	6:38
10.	Babes in the Juke House	3:20
11.	i. Brownsville, Tennessee (instr.), ii. Interlude To Be a Slave #2	5:14
12.	Slow and Easy	3:15
13.	Sonnet XVIII	4:07

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[11]	Silver	60,000^^
Worldwide	—	216,000[12]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

2000 - More Chants and Dances of the Native Americans (Sacred Spirit II)[2] ( Italy #14, France #37, Netherlands #88)

Track No.	Title	Length
1.	Intro: Gods & Heroes	1:31
2.	Looking for north	4:18
3.	Dela Dela	4:41
4.	Land Of Promise	5:47
5.	The State of Grace	4:26
6.	Yane — Heja — Hee	4:49
7.	A — la — Ke	4:42
8.	May you walk in sunshine	3:57
9.	The Spirit	3:03
10.	O — Loa — Ki — Lee	3:18
11.	That Noble Dream	4:51
12.	The Sad Eyed Chief	4:03

2003 - Jazzy Chill Out (Sacred Spirit Vol.8)^[13]

Track No.	Title
1.	You're Gonna Love (feat. Tampa Red) (Theme from Vangelis' Ask The Mountains)
2.	Bad Luck (feat. Lightning Hopkins)
3.	Da Cool (feat. Anita O'Day)
4.	The Roots
5.	A New Dawn (feat. Carla Rums)
6.	Last Nite (feat. Lightning Hopkins)
7.	The Last Unicorn (edit)
8.	Love Comes My Way (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
9.	The Sun (feat. John Lee Hooker)
10.	Chillin'
11.	Some Like It Easy (feat. John Lee Hooker)
12.	That "rive gauche" - Vibe

2003 - Bluesy Chill Out (Sacred Spirit Vol.9)[3]

Track No.	Title
1.	Driftin'
2.	This Earth
3.	Interlude: The Wide Open
4.	Black Rain
5.	Love Is Blind
6.	Down In Louisiana
7.	Interlude: The Loneliness of the Slide Guitar
8.	That's Right
9.	My Mother Told Me
10.	Oh Yeah
11.	Wasteland
12.	Why

References

1. "Sacred Spirit". Radio King. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
2. "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 1995". Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
3. "French album certifications – Indiens Sacred Spirit – Chants Et Danses Des Indiens D'Amerique" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
4. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Indians; 'Sacred Spirit')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
5. Suffy, Thom (14 October 1995). "Charly & Theo Sees 'Stars' On European Pop Charts". Billboard. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
6. "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
7. "British album certifications – Sacred Spirit – Chants And Dances Of T". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 22 February 2019. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Chants And Dances Of T in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
8. "September 17 & 23 releases". Universal Music Group. September 2014. p. 6. Retrieved November 24, 2019 – via Scribd.
9. "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 1996". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
10. Suffy, Thom (17 February 1996). "Who's Selling Where". Billboard. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
11. "British album certifications – Sacred Spirit – Scared Spirit Ii Culture Clash". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 22 February 2019. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Scared Spirit Ii Culture Clash in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
12. Pride, Dominic (29 August 1998). "Some European Acts Being Marketed As 'Brands' Instead Of Faces". Billboard. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
13. Sacred Spirit at AllMusic

Other websites

• Sacred Spirit official site
• Sacred Spirit at AllMusic
• Nrk.no
• Virginmusic.de Archived 2006-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Archive.greengalactic.com Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Archive.greengalactic.com Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Home.global.co.za Archived 2017-10-23 at the Wayback Machine