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R. Carlos Nakai - Mythic Dreamer (CR-608)
This collection of traditional and new melodies for solo Native American flute continues R. Carlos Nakai's exploration of this expressive instrument. Returning to traditional roots, he presents eleven arrangements of Zuni, Lakota, Kiowa and Cheyenne melodies along with seven original compositions and a work by composer by James DeMars. Nakai beautifully demonstrates the haunting simplicity and evocative magic of the traditional flute.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Emergence (CR-609)
The best representation of R. Carlos Nakai's concert performance for the solo cedar flute beginning with renditions of traditional melodies from the Plains and Nakai's own works in the traditional style. Closes with an ethereal rendition of "Amazing Grace."
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R. Carlos Nakai - Canyon Trilogy (CR-610)
Using digital technology, R. Carlos Nakai creates the sound of the cedar flute echoing in the canyons and valleys of the vast Southwest. His seventeen free flowing compositions soothe the spirit and carry the listener to the far realms of the imagination. Awarded a certified Gold Records in 1998 ~ the first ever awarded for a Native American music album.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Earth Spirit (CR-612)
This album best captures the timeless serenity of the solo Native American flute. R. Carlos Nakai's music speaks to the spirit with a simplicity that transcends place and time. Includes original compositions, traditional Athabascan and Omaha melodies.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Journeys (CR-613)
Journeys is one of the first albums released by R. Carlos Nakai in his celebrated 25 year career and demonstrates Nakai's early mastery of the Native American flute and his special ability to bring peace and tranquillity to the mind and spirit.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Cycles (CR-614)
Evocative music capturing the vastness and sweep of the American West and the feelings of Native Americans for their traditions and land. Eight songs for Native American flute with synthesizer accompaniment.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Changes (CR-615)
R. Carlos Nakai's first recording and still a favorite. Fifteen solo songs of pure, soothing Native American flute music including renditions of Zuni, Blood and Lakota melodies along with Nakai's own impressionistic melodies inspired by his travels throughout North America.
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Jackalope - Jackalope (CR-7001)
Features R. Carlos Nakai on Native American flute and trumpet accompanied by Larry Yanez on synthesizer and Steve Cheseborough on guitar. This album blends ethnic instruments, melodies and rhythms with urban musical styles to create SynthacousticpunkarachiNavajazz.
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Jackalope - Weavings (CR-7002)
Inspired by the folklore and myths of the native peoples of North America, the Aztecs and modern urban culture. R. Carlos Nakai on Native American flute and trumpet is joined by synthesizer (Larry Yanez), percussion (Darrell Flint) and guitar (Richard Carbajal). An entertaining melange of musical traditions.
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Jackalope - Boat People (CR-7003)
A musical satire that takes a pointed look at the five hundred years since Columbus stumbled onto America. R. Carlos Nakai and Larry Yanez combine flutes, keyboards, trumpet, guitar, power tools and anything else lying around to tell their musical stories in ten sardonic songs.
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R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton - Carry the Gift (CR-7006)
The panoramic harmonies of R. Carlos Nakai's flute with William Eaton's guitar, harp-guitar and lyre create visions of canyons and plains in these fifteen songs. Music haunting in its serenity, graceful in its simplicity and with a zen-like lyricism.
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R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton - Winter Dreams (CR-7007)
The world's favorite Christmas melodies in new arrangements for the cedar flute and Eaton's guitars. Ten carols including "What Child Is This?/Greensleeves," "I Saw Three Ships," "Angels We Have Heard On High," and "Silent Night" (with Navajo chorale).
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R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman - Feather, Stone & Light (CR-7011)
Native American flutist, R. Carlos Nakai, draws on his Navajo-Ute heritage in this fourth collaboration with guitarist William Eaton who adds the unique sounds of his hyraharp guitar, o'ele'n strings and spiral clef guitar to Nakai's cedar flutes. Joined by percussionist and are joined by percussionist Will Clipman they bring fourth a music born in the Sonoran desert and colored by sounds of the world. A BILLBOARD MAGAZINE Critic's Choice.
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R. Carlos Nakai Quartet - Kokopelli's Cafe (CR-7013)
Since his first release for Canyon Records in 1983, Native American flutist R.Carlos Nakai has used the traditional Native American flute in exciting new musical settings creating a new genre with widespread popularity. In this album, Nakai continues this musical experiment by joining the haunting sound of the cedar flute with sax, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. This new sound is a confluence of traditional Native American sounds, Latin rhythms and ethnic jazz. Features Nakai on Native American flute, Amo Chip Dabney on sax, keyboards and bass, Will Clipman on drums and percussion and J.David Muniz on guitar, bass and keyboards.
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R. Carlos Nakai & James DeMars- Spirit Horses (CR-7014)
This recording combines classical, ethnic and jazz elements and presents the haunting sound of the flute and Native American song forms in new and compelling ways. Includes the first concerto composed for Native American flute, "Spirit Horses" by James DeMars. With Mark Sunkett (African percussion), Michael Hester (alto saxophone), Xiaozhong "Alex" Zheng (cello) and Eric Hoover (flute).
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R. Carlos Nakai & James DeMars - Native Tapestry (CR-7015)
The haunting sound of R. Carlos Nakai's Native American flute combines with African percussion, piano, cello, saxophone and chamber orchestra to give Native Tapestry an evocative sound blending classical and ethnic elements. Includes "Two World Symphony," "Crow Wing" and "Spirit Call" composed by James DeMars.
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R. Carlos Nakai & Black Lodge Singers - Two World Concerto (CR-7016)
Music of the Old World and New are vividly combined by composer James DeMars in a new, exciting album. The brilliant sonorities of the Canyon symphony orchestra create a colorful setting for R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo-Ute) in Two World Concerto and Gray Hawks Rising. The Black Lodge Singers (Blackfeet), internationally acclaimed pow-wow singers, give a stunning performance of Native Drumming.
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R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman - Red Wind (CR-7017)
Red Wind conjures the subtle beauty and intimate grandeur of the singing desert, weaving aural fables of human and animal presence into enduring tableaus of landscape and sky...illuminate by musical influences from Native American and around the globe. Nakai, Eaton and Clipman discover the exotic in the familiar by journeying deeply into the sonic atmospheres of northern Sonora, blending celebration and lamentation with passionate eloquence.
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R. Carlos Nakai - Island of Bows (CR-7018)
Recorded in Kyoto's Hounji Temple, Island of Bows brings together the world's leading performer of the Native American flute, R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo-Ute) with the Wind Travelin' Band, Shonosuke Ohkura and Oki Kano. Nakai's flute is matched by the delicate tranquillity of the traditional Japanese shakuhachi, shamizen and koto and gracefully blends traditional sounds from East and West.
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