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R. Carlos Nakai
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (January 23, 1992)
  • Original Release Date: August 1989
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Celestial Harmonies
  • ASIN: B0000007WM
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,633 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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About the Artist

R. Carlos Nakai has artfully merged traditional Native American performance practices with new perspectives on his musical lineage. An accomplished vocalist and master of the wooden flute, he has studied and lived with many tribes, incorporating their instruments and insights into a highly personal expression. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Nakai has performed at festivals, schools, museums, galleries and concert halls throughout the United States and in Europe. In addition, he has composed soundtracks for public television specials on Native American arts. A visual artist and teacher, as well as a musician (trained in both classical trumpet and indigenous flutes), Nakai has worked with the Arizona Commission on the Arts.


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Desert Dance is R. Carlos Nakai's musical interpretation of his experiences in the sacred place of his ancestors, Colorado's San Luis Valley. Like his critically acclaimed 1988 release, Sundance Season, the Navajo-Ute musician's latest album was recorded in the Lindisfarne chapel, a uniquely resonant structure situated within this dramatic expanse of holy ground. Many tribes, from the early pueblo dwellers to the Kiowa, Arapaho, and Comanche, have inhabited this alpine valley over time. Near Alamosa, Colorado, where the Great Sand Dunes lie, is the site of the Navajo's eastern sacred mountain, Blanca Peak, and the center of the Ute world. Nakai weaves his improvisations on the native American wooden flute, nose flute, drums, rattle, and voice into poetic meditations on the land and its history. During Ancient Voices, he delicately plays a Southern Plains war dance drum with finger taps and brushes to reveal a hidden palette of sound, much like the whisper of spirits within the valley. The joyful spectacle of desert birds frolicking upon waves of transparent air currents is depicted on Turquoise Swallows Dance, while the wind's daily moods are choreographed in temperate summer breezes, dust devils, and cloud formations on Wind Dance. Other selections deftly combine the plaintive, yet, potent sounds of Nakai's heritage to explore the mystery and unique beauty of this sacred territory.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sacred Valley, January 20, 2006
By Joseph Sheader (Colorado Plateau) - See all my reviews
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Anyone who has lived within the sacred San Luis Valley of Coloraodo/New Mexico and treked thru the desert - alpine lands there, particularly around the Sacred Peak of Blanca and the Sangre's will hear the resonance of the land within the soul-full sound of Nakai's flute and chants.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, February 17, 2008
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I own several CDs of Nakai's work and they are all wonderful, but this one is simply magic. It is a wordless poem to the beauty of the Southwest.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enter the Sacred, April 26, 2001
In listening to this CD, I feel in a New Mexico canyon and hear the whispers of the ancestors beckoning. I love the mystical quality of this CD. The sacred chants and flute have a peaceful quality that transforms us to the dimension of the sacred. Good meditation/contemplation music. I have never heard less than excellent from Carlos Naki.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Takes me to the desert......
This music takes me to the desert
and there my heart is filled with
warmth and joy. Beautiful music.
Relax and let it soothe you. Read more
Published on April 17, 2007 by Jannean Yusko

5.0 out of 5 stars NAKAI'S PEACE JOURNEY
I recommend this DVD also for those that seek the journey of inner peace! The songs,the nurishment of the meaning of each song, the sounds of comfort during a days journey! Read more
Published on March 10, 2007 by Daniel Anders

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Relaxing
I first heard C Nakai while driving across country from NYC to LA. My girlfriend started playing his CD when we hit the mid west. Read more
Published on August 15, 2006 by Nancy O'

5.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Mix
If you don't want to hear just flute music this album is an excellent choice, mixing flute, drum and chanting in a most pleasant listening experience, Carlos puts you into the... Read more
Published on August 7, 2006 by Thunderheart

5.0 out of 5 stars Peace of Spirit
This album epitomizes peace of spirit. It is a wonderful piece to play when it is dark and cold and there's a fire in the fire place and you want to be alone with your own... Read more
Published on December 17, 1999 by Cynthia Towers

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
This music reflects the spirit of Native American music. It reflects silence and emptiness and connection to life and spirit. Simple and beautiful.
Published on December 12, 1999 by T.G.

4.0 out of 5 stars peacefull listening music
Whenever i listen to any of Nakai's CD's i become one with myself and the universe. The music on this CD makes me feel small and i wish that more people could enjoy that... Read more
Published on August 22, 1998

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