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R. Carlos Nakai, People of Peace
Audio CD
Disk ID: 165649
Disk length: 54m 2s (12 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Wingyaa | 4:52 |
| 2. Trade Winds | 4:01 |
| 3. Flute Forest | 4:26 |
| 4. Kiva Smoke | 6:06 |
| 5. E'she'no | 5:36 |
| 6. Gnu H2O | 3:23 |
| 7. Taos Thunder | 4:42 |
| 8. Condor Canyon | 4:44 |
| 9. Club Dread | 4:17 |
| 10. Native Tongue | 4:28 |
| 11. People Of Peace | 3:29 |
| 12. Cedar And Clay | 3:49 |
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Review
1. Wingyaa (4:57)
2. Trade Winds (3:57)
3. Flute Forest (4:23)
4. Kiva Smoke (6:02)
5. E_she_no (5:32)
6. Gnu H20 (3:19)
7. Taos Thunder (4:38)
8. Condor Canyon (4:40)
9. Club Dread (4:14)
10. Native Tongue (4:24)
11. People Of Peace (3:25)
12. Cedar And Clay (3:50)
Format: CDThe Quartet has always been the least satisfying of R. Carlos Nakai's ensemble configurations. On People of Peace, Nakai and bassist/singer Mary Redhouse indulge their jazz backgrounds, while multi-instrumentalist AmoChip Dabney gets funky. The result is neither funk nor jazz, but sounds more like a white-collar professional loosening his tie and getting down: feels good for him, but no one else is convinced. People of Peace has many moments like that, exemplified by the ersatz Weather Report-style jazz of "Gnu H2O" and "Club Dread" which, despite its reggae name, is more Afro-Cuban than Jamaican, but really succeeds at being neither.
As a pianist, Dabney is lockjaw stiff. But as producer, he has taken much of People of Peace into a more ethereal, world-music direction, with spare, ghostly chants, percussive echoes, and Nakai's flutes reverberating through a virtual kiva. Tracks like the haunting chant "E'she'no," complete with drum & bass break in the middle, and "Native Tongue," featuring the ambience of Will Clipman's udu drum, seem to have stronger centers. But the RCNQ usually throws in the kitchen sink with too many dirty dishes. --John Diliberto
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