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Faces of the Sun

by Peter Kater

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Raven 06:13
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2.
Faces of the Sun 06:34
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3.
Changeless and Eternal 06:23
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4.
Wind at Your Back 05:32
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5.
Feather of the Wind 05:45
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6.
Stone Teepees 06:05
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7.
Lone Hawk 04:37
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8.
Rite of Passage 05:54
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9.
Place of Peace 06:06
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Pianist Peter Kater was among the first to bring Native American flutes into contemporary music, and his recordings with R. Carlos Nakai remain pioneering examples of Native American chamber music. Faces of the Sun finds Kater in familiar terrain, matched with a clutch of Native players, mostly flutists, on every track. Kater takes these often simple, emotionally direct performances and maps them onto cinematic grandeur and smooth rhythms. You can hear the voice of every player on these songs as the basis for Kater's inspiration. Flutist Joseph Fire Crow and violinist Arvel Bird charge Kater toward an anthemic march on "Rite of Passage," and Bill Miller's multitracked vocal choir interspersed with his powwow cries reaches a certain hymnal spirit on the title track. But Kater undermines many of these moments with uncharacteristically rhapsodic piano accompaniment, rote rhythm loops, and swaddling strings. Artists like Native fusionist Mary Youngblood and Kevin Locke, the most traditional player on the album, get a smooth-jazz shellacking with snappy grooves and strings that swamp them in their backwash. Kater took a similar approach on his Red Moon album a few years back, but the slightly moodier, darker sound of that disc was just enough to keep it from the easy-listening, smooth-jazz sensibilities that threaten to eclipse Faces in the Sun at every turn. --John Diliberto

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released July 31, 2007

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Silver Wave Records Colorado

Welcome to Silver Wave, “one of the most storied record labels in the history of New Age and Native American music”, based in Boulder, Colorado since 1986.

We invite you to explore the timeless music in our award winning catalog with artists such as Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai, Mary Youngblood, Joanne Shenandoah, Robert Mirabal, and many more. ... more

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