Natives

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This collaboration with new age keyboard star Peter Kater is the album that introduced Nakai mainstream record buyers. On its release, Natives stayed on Billboard's New Age Chart for almost a year, paving the way for the current renaissance in the Native flute. Once again the music is totally improvised, with Kater's romantic melodies and fat, left-hand chord clusters on the concert grand, providing a fertile environment for Nakai's flights of improvisational fancy. And although Kater is an impressive piano stylist, this is clearly Nakai's show; the brittle tones of his Eagle-bone whistle, and his measured chanting to the accompaniment of an Algonquin turtle rattle always move the music to a higher plane. --j. poet

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Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai's first collaborative effort reached #15 on the Billboard New Age Chart. Natives is the first collaboration with Peter Kater on piano and Navajo/Ute Native American R. Carlos Nakai, who incorporates the sound of eagle bone whistle, nose flute, rattle and voice into this music. Recorded live and direct to digital tape, the music is powerful yet exquisitely simple. CD Review gave it a perfect 10/10 rating., ISBN13: B000000PNP ISBN10: B000000PNP Material Type: audioCD