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Native American Music

My significant other's father just bought a wooden "flute" which looks just like one of those recorders they used to make us play in grade school. Anyway, he's just nuts about this thing and keeps calling it his "Indian flute." He's interested in finding some Native American music that incorporates woodwind instrumnets. Do you have any leads? Thanks.
shersta
rec
328 posts
 
I recommend the catalogs of Coyote Oldman and R. Carlos Nakai. Two of my favorites by Coyote Oldman: Compassion and Tear of the Moon and Nakai: Big Medicine and Journeys vol.3.
ozfly
887 posts
 
Budrew & Rec, do those recordings also include percussion? Thanks (I'm a big fan of all kinds of percussion).
budrew
467 posts
 
The Coyote Oldman albums do not. However, Nakai does various collaborations and some of them do include percussion. Go to Amazon.com and listen to some sample of the various albums. I don't recall offhand which ones do.
shersta OP
140 posts
 
Budrew and Rec--thanks much for your help.
goinbroke
105 posts
 
If the instrument you mention is made of cedar and doesn't seem to be in any particular standard key, it may well be a traditional cedar flute. As mentioned by Budrew and Rec, Coyote Oldman and R. Carlos Nakai will provide the best examples. Personally, I prefer the works of R. Carlos Nakai. For some of the best of his solo flute recordings with a traditional flavor, may I suggest 'Emergence: Songs of the Rainbow World'.
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