There is something very magical about Canyon De Chelly, for me at least. 

Upon arriving within the sacred Canyon, my heart instantly began to swell with awe.  It was almost like I could feel the heart beat of those who came before me and the rhythm repeated over and over like a powerful drum beat resonating inside my own heart and soul.
 Shortly thereafter, the music to the song started coming together so quickly, I could hardly wait to pick up my guitar and capture what I was hearing inside my mind at that moment. I had to settle for humming the tune into my handheld minidisc recorder until returning to my collection of beloved musical instruments back in Pennsylvania to really do it any justice. 

I started playing the chord progression for David, but before I got very far, he picked up his flute and began adding his usual magic that is uniquely David Rose. We recorded the song on the very first take and after I added the drumbeat/heartbeat rhythm that I felt inside my chest, it all came so smoothly together, musically capturing the feeling that I had experienced while in the Canyon. 

The photography featured in the music video is from our visit there and although the digital images are beautiful, nothing compares to the actual feeling of being there, quietly observing the sacred ruins, standing where ancients have stood before, and seeing many of the same sights that they had seen hundreds of years before us in a land that has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. It was almost a feeling of being transported back in time, which was the feeling that we were trying to symbolize with the video's sepiatone imaging.

 
Here are a few tidbits of information about Canyon de Chelly.

Canyon De Chelly (pronounced D'shay) is a Spanish corruption of the Navajo word Tséyi', meaning "canyon" or literally "inside the rock" ( tsé = rock  +  yi' = inside of ).

The Canyon De Chelly National Monument, located in northeastern Arizona near the town of Chinle, was established in 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service, but is unique among National Park service units, as it consists entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land that remains home to the canyon community.

It is one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America and the Navajo people still live within the monument and farm the fertile valleys the way their ancestors did centuries ago.

There are hundreds of ruin sites, petroglyphs and cliff dwellings from the prehistoric Anasazi and historic Navajo periods.

For more information about visiting Canyon De Chelly, you might want to check out the desertUSA.com website.  For more historic information, you might want to peruse the NPS.gov website.