World flute master Gary Stroutsos, the musician who created the music for DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, brings haunting sounds from the forgotten past to life in this CD. Rim flutes are among the 29 musical instruments featured in this award-winning film.

These 7th Century flutes of Puebloan ancestry were discovered in 1931 by Earl Morris in caves of northeastern Arizona, the earliest known in the American Southwest. The originals are housed at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, and flute-maker Michael Allen crafted Gary’s flutes using measurements of these 2000-year-old museum artifacts. The flutes’ haunting tones are refreshingly new in today’s music world but are as old as the ancient Puebloan ruins from which they came.