Tribal drums, ceremonial flutes & the dust of the frontier
A Cure for Death is a cinematic double album from composer Lionel Cohen — a reimagining of the Spaghetti Western genre told not from the conquistador's saddle, but from the perspective of those whose land it always was.
Thunderous tribal drums pulse beneath wide open skies. Ceremonial shakers mark ancient rhythms. Wooden flutes carry melodies that the wind has known for centuries. Dusty frontier ambiance — the creak of leather, the silence before the storm — frames a story that the Western genre has rarely paused to tell from this vantage point.
Two tomes. One journey across sacred ground. Native American storytelling meets the cinematic grammar of Leone, Morricone and the golden age of the Western — and reclaims the landscape for the people who named it first.
The opening chapter. The land speaks first — tribal rhythm rising from red earth, flute carrying the memory of generations, the first reckoning with the horizon.
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The reckoning. Deeper into the sacred and the violent — the collision of worlds, the weight of survival, and the music that carries grief and defiance in the same breath.
Stream & Purchase →Looking for Native American film music, tribal cinematic scores, or Spaghetti Western music with genuine indigenous perspective? A Cure for Death is unlike any Western score written before it — because it chooses where to stand.
Lionel Cohen's production blends tribal drums, wooden flutes and ceremonial percussion with the sweeping cinematic architecture of the classic Western — Morricone's ghost is here, but so is something far older. A sound drawn from the earth itself, placed in the grammar of epic storytelling.
Whether you're searching for Native American instrumental music, frontier cinematic scores, or world music with the scale of a film soundtrack, A Cure for Death across both tomes is the definitive work.