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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Review: R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman - Awakening the Fire

Making Canyon Records proud, grammy-nominees Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai’s and percussionist Will Clipman's, Awakening the Fire has the purity only a flame can bring.  

This is one of the best albums I have heard all year.  It hasn't left my player since it arrived and I often keep it on repeat all day.  The music is transporting and transformation.


Awakening The Fire allows the mind to travel to it's own sacred lands and find the places within that beckon a soul retrieval.   With each listen I am continually amazed at where I end up.  This is real music that echoes the heart and passionate flame of life.

Awakening The Fire is an invocation of the soul, in its entirety - of the true self.  It urging the listener to take a soulful and inspiring journey with these two talented musicians, channeling the riches of the innermost depths of the genuine being.  You are invited.  You are welcome to jump into the flame of Clipman's purifying drums and percussion and Nakai mystical Native American flute.  

The music takes you on an adventure.  Native American cedar flute initiates the album and then the soothing rhythms of Native American, African and Asian percussion capture the listener forever.   Awakening the Fire draws heavily upon the power of Clipman's percussive rhythm.  It is one delicious, earthy track after another, that is sure to awaken the fire within and connect the listener to their authenticity, the truth within themselves. 

You can feel something special about this album ... something quite magical, laced with emotions and intention.  Clipman and Nakai are two of the most talented individuals in music today.  Getting them together was a really good idea. 

An uplifting and inspirational album, I absolutely LOVE IT.  I really hope these two work together again.  They have a certain chemistry and harmony that is unmatched.  I cannot recommend this album enough.  

For more information or to sample this music, please visit Canyon Records.




1 comment:

  1. Great review of an amazing team of artists!
    I love this music!

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