R. Carlos Nakai - In Harmony, We Journey - The Best of R. Carlos Nakai - The Second 20 Years '2021

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This collection presents music released by eleven-time Grammy nominee R. Carlos
Nakai over the second 20 years of a distinguished career which explored the
expressive range of the traditional Native American flute in a wide range of
genres - jazz, new age, classical, Hawaiian, and EDM - and features harp
guitarist William Eaton, percussionist Will Clipman, cellist Udi Bar-David,
Hawaiian singer/slack key guitarist Keola Beamer, the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet
(Nakai with AmoChip Dabney, Johnny Walker, Will Clipman), electronic dance music
producer Cliff Sarde and composer James DeMars. In Harmony, We Journey is the
companion album to Nakais first best of collection, In Beauty, We Return.

R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo-Ute) began playing the Native American flute in 1980
when he received one as a gift and challenged to see what he could do with it.
In the decades since then, Nakai released forty albums (4.5 million sold) with
Canyon Records (plus albums for other labels), earned two Gold Records (Earth
Spirit and Canyon Trilogy) and a Platinum Record (Canyon Trilogy), and received
11 GRAMMY nominations. Nakai has worked with GRAMMY -winning artists Paul Horn
and Billy Williams as well as guitarist/luthier William Eaton, composer James
DeMars among many others. Nakai introduced the traditional flute into New Age,
jazz, and classical genres and authored the best-selling book, The Art of the
Native American Flute.

This collection presents music released by eleven-time Grammy nominee R. Carlos
Nakai over the second 20 years of a distinguished career which explored the
expressive range of the traditional Native American flute in a wide range of
genres - jazz, new age, classical, Hawaiian, and EDM - and features harp
guitarist William Eaton, percussionist Will Clipman, cellist Udi Bar-David,
Hawaiian singer/slack key guitarist Keola Beamer, the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet
(Nakai with AmoChip Dabney, Johnny Walker, Will Clipman), electronic dance music
producer Cliff Sarde and composer James DeMars. In Harmony, We Journey is the
companion album to Nakais first best of collection, In Beauty, We Return.

R. Carlos Nakai, flute



01 - R. Carlos Nakai - Winter Camp (3:29)
02 - R. Carlos Nakai - Alpine Dawn (5:11)
03 - R. Carlos Nakai - Waipio Pakaalana (5:04)
04 - R. Carlos Nakai - Excursions into Memory (6:46)
05 - R. Carlos Nakai - Omaha Song (4:30)
06 - R. Carlos Nakai - Obsidian Talisman (5:33)
07 - R. Carlos Nakai - Sunrise Song (3:03)
08 - R. Carlos Nakai - Horses in the Rain (5:05)
09 - R. Carlos Nakai - Monsoon Morning (4:47)
10 - R. Carlos Nakai - Oasis (5:50)
11 - R. Carlos Nakai - Kathmandu This (8:07)
12 - R. Carlos Nakai - Wanderers Dream (3:43)

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