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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13024-2
Barcode: 13711302424
Musical Style: Native American
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voices [04:36] | 7 | White Shell Dreams [05:10] |
| 2 | Mountain Chant [05:36] | 8 | Light Waves [03:20] |
| 3 | On Eagle's Wings [06:55] | 9 | Shadow Dance [02:55] |
| 4 | Anasazi Visions [03:17] | 10 | Sundance Season - Ritual I [05:50] |
| 5 | Evensong [04:54] | 11 | Sundance Season - Ritual II [04:10] |
| 6 | Water Bearer [03:06] | 12 | Continuum [02:47] |
Description:
The Sun Dance ritual is the subject for R. Carlos Nakai's Sundance Season. The Sun Dance celebrates and honors man's relationship with Mother Earth. Nakai explains that tribal dancers in the ritual are encouraged to concentrate on their reasons for dancing and to meditate on the orderliness of life. Nakai's original melodies arise from the themes of the sacred traditions: On Eagle's Wings, (meditations on the scintillating flight of the golden eagle), Light Waves, (recurring phenomenon of light refracting through water droplets, manifesting as rainbow paths) and Water Bearer (reaffirming the essence of life upon this small dust speck orbiting a very small star). The inspired playing by Nakai of the wooden flute, together with vocal chanting, drumming and the lonely sound of the eagle bone whistle, brings to life this celebration of creation.
Biography:
R. Carlos Nakai has explored and developed the relationship between established and new musical ideas for the Native American wooden flute. Classically trained on the trumpet, Nakai has nevertheless always been involved in the music and culture of his Navajo people. He has become accomplished on the siyotanka, the Lakota name for the wooden flute. Nakai has studied and lived with many different Native American tribes, adapting their musical traditions to his own style. He represented the Native Americans at the Magic Flute Festival in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has performed at galleries, schools, museums and festivals. A visual artist and teacher, Nakai works with the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
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