Canyon Trilogy

R. Carlos Nakai

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Canyon Trilogy Review

by Timothy Monger

Arizona-based flutist R. Carlos Nakai's 1989 album The Canyon Trilogy became the first ever Native American release to be awarded gold record status. Elegant in its simplicity, the record is divided into three sections: Dawn's Mirage, Dreamscapes, and Resonance, with each section containing nothing more than Nakai's unaccompanied cedar flute. Soothing and spiritual, the album remained a staple on the new age charts for many years. [The 2015 deluxe reissue of The Canyon Trilogy features the addition of a fourth section, Recollections, which contains five previously unreleased songs.]

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Dawn's Mirage: Song for the Morning Star	R. Carlos Nakai	04:16
2	Dawn's Mirage: Daybreak Vision	R. Carlos Nakai	01:49
3	Dawn's Mirage: Ancestral Home	R. Carlos Nakai	04:52
4	Dawn's Mirage: Echoes of Time	R. Carlos Nakai	03:51
5	Dawn's Mirage: Inward Journey	R. Carlos Nakai	03:13
6	Dreamscapes: Creation Chant	R. Carlos Nakai	03:09
7	Dreamscapes: Canyon People	R. Carlos Nakai	04:36
8	Dreamscapes: Turquoise World	R. Carlos Nakai	04:20
9	Dreamscapes: Cleft in the Sky	R. Carlos Nakai	03:11
10	Dreamscapes: Spiral Passage	R. Carlos Nakai	03:21
11	Dreamscapes: World of Rainbows	R. Carlos Nakai	03:45
12	Resonance: Waking Song	R. Carlos Nakai	03:03
13	Resonance: The Sacred Reed	R. Carlos Nakai	02:43
14	Resonance: Kokopelli Wind	R. Carlos Nakai	04:16
15	Resonance: Departure	R. Carlos Nakai	03:37
16	Resonance: Into the Maze	R. Carlos Nakai	03:52
17	Resonance: Homage to the Ancient Ones	R. Carlos Nakai	01:51	Amazon
18	Recollections: Within the Sacred	R. Carlos Nakai	03:53
19	Recollections: Mysteries of the Past	R. Carlos Nakai	03:03
20	Recollections: Images in Sound	R. Carlos Nakai	03:25
21	Recollections: Place of Emergence-Sipo'phe	R. Carlos Nakai	03:16
22	Recollections: That Which Surrounds Me	R. Carlos Nakai	02:00