R. Carlos Nakai

Regarded as the world's foremost Native American flutist, R. Carlos Nakai was among the first to meld the ancestral sounds of his Navajo-Ute heritage with contemporary music and electronic instrumentation. He has sold millions of records since the 1980s, and is widely regarded as a pioneer in the new age and contemporary instrumental genres. Nakai is not an archivist of traditional songs but a synthesist of old and new sounds. He composes soaring melodies for wood flute (his own design) and eagle-bone whistle, and uses synthesizers, chanting, and sounds from nature to orchestr...