Utilizing digital delay and overdubbing techniques to create the experience of being in the canyons of the Southwest.

Famed flutist R. Carlos Nakai uses his musical skills to create an expansive environment of tranquility.

Canyon Trilogy includes seventeen original impressionistic compositions for solo flute including "Homage to the Ancient Ones" and "Song for the Morning Star."

Dimensions: 5" x 5.625"
Details: CD, 59 minutes
Artist: R. Carlos Nakai

Track List

1. Song for the Morning Star 4:07
2. Daybreak Vision 1:44
3. Ancestral Home 4:44
4. Echoes of Time 3:43
5. Inward Journey 3:04
6. Creation Chant 3:03
7. Canyon People 4:27
8. Turquoise World 4:11
9. Cleft in the Sky 3:02
10. Spiral Passage 3:12
11. World of Rainbows 3:37
12. Waking Songs 3:02
13. The Sacred Reed 2:43
14. Kokopelli Wind 4:07
15. Departure 3:25
16. Into the Maze 3:40
17. Homage to the Ancient Ones 1:45

About R. Carlos Nakai

Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world's premier performer of the Native American flute.

During the late 1960s while researching American Indian music and traditional instruments, the wooden flute piqued Nakai's interest, but it wasn't until 1972 that he took it up seriously. Prior to that Nakai had devoted his musical energies to classical training on the cornet and trumpet.

In his usual determination to have a thorough knowledge of the instrument, Nakai crafted his own. He later learned from a flute-making teacher that rather than the oak Nakai was using, cedar is the only wood that works well. He also discovered that when it comes to flute making, there are no standard dimensions. The finger holes and air column are based on hand and finger measurements and are never the same. As a result, each flute has a different sound and pitch which makes the tonality of the instruments random. Nakai views each flute less as a musical instrument than "as a sound sculpture - a piece of art that also creates sound."