Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other

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Artists crossing musical and cultural boundaries are common these days, but few defy categories as much as R. Carlos Nakai. A member of the Navajo and Ute tribes, Nakai took the Native american flute off the reservation and out of the hands of traditionalists when he released his album, Canyon Trilogy in 1989

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Carlos added electronic effects to his flute and then took it to the world, playing with orchestras and pianists, Japanese world fusion groups and electronica artists.

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No matter what the setting, it all sounds like R. Carlos Nakai. But the trio heard on his latest album, Dancing Into Silence, is where Nakai seems to do his best work. He's been recording with William Eaton for over 20 years. Eaton plays custom-built, hybrid stringed instruments that look like ancient artifacts from Avatar.

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The other member is Will Clipman who's percussion rig includes Pony drums based on native american designs, hang drums, African djembes, Irish bodhrans and anything that will rattle or bang.

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They've recorded several albums together, but Dancing into silence takes them into a terrain of pure intuitive improvisation. Although the concept was to leave preconceived songs off the album, these three artists have so much melody pouring out of them and are so attuned to each other after years of playing together, that every track sounds like a through composed work.

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Through deft seques between tracks, Dancing into Silence morphs from ethereal vapor ballets to throbbing percussion trances.

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The aerated performances on Dancing into Silence seem to hover above the ground like a desert mirage, but behind that mirage are three musicians in communion, bathed in a world of reverb, united by the rhythm of the earth.

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Dancing into Silence is the latest album by R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman. It's out on Canyon records. I'm John Diliberto and this has been an echo location, soundings for new music.