Carlos Nakai
Centering - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
East - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
South - Peter Kater,
North - Peter Kater,
Earth - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
Within (Recentering) - Peter Kater,
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 c.
more »urrent 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