Our Beloved Land

R. Carlos & Beamer, Keo Nakai (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (July 12 2005)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: CANYON RECORDS PRODUCTIONS
ASIN: B0009VI5K2
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #20,487 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #15 in Music > World Music > Pacific Islands > Hawaii

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1. Waipi'o Paka'alana

2. Aia I Moloka'i Ku'u 'Iwa

3. Ka Honua - 'The Earth'

4. Ke Ha'a Ala Puna

5. E Manono

6. Ka Mano - 'The Shark'

7. Ia 'Oe E Ka La - 'For You, O Glittering Sun'

8. Nani Ha'upu

9. Ke Ao Nani - 'The Beautiful World'

10. Lapule - 'Sunday'

11. The Good Road

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Hawaiian slack-key guitar and Native American flute aren't the most likely combination one could think of. Slack-key guitar is a sound both laconic and light, made from loosely tuning the guitar strings. The Native flute is renowned for its frail, lonesome call. But two masters of these instruments, Keola Beamer and R. Carlos Nakai, find common ground and lay some new turf on their first full collaboration, Our Beloved Land.

Beamer is a guitarist who makes it look easy as he peels fingerpicked melodies from his instrument the way Tiger Woods peels off a long drive. All but three of the tunes on this album are either traditional Hawaiian songs he arranged, or his own originals. Hawaiian and Native American chants share a certain sound, and you can hear that when Nakai joins in singing on "E Manono." On "Lapule (Sunday)," Beamer picks up the Hawaiian nose flute and duets with Nakai over the sounds of a rain forest. Together, they create a sound far from the tourist music you may have heard before. Instead, they orchestrate a tribal mood full of ambience and rumination. Shakers, rattles, double gourd drums, and coyote echoes encase their often fragile melodies. R. Carlos Nakai has a knack for bringing out the more soulful side in musicians, but Keola Beamer probably didn't require any prompting. He remains the most original and exploratory of modern slack-key guitarists. --John Diliberto

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Amazon.com: 4.4 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, atmospheric, full of mana, Oct 24 2005

By happyhaole "K.W." - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: Our Beloved Land (Audio CD)

We have a lot of Nakai CDs and quite a few of IZ's and other Hawaiian artists' work. This album is as good as IZ's Facing Future and has instantly become one of my favorite top ten albums of all time. Nakai is amazing as always. But here Keola Beamer is not the warm, talented slack key Hawaiian master we know and love. In this release he is even better -- powerful, haunting vocals in Hawaiian, accented by understated minor key guitar arrangements. The songs stir your soul and feel like the raw power of primal, pre-Captain Cook Hawaii. If you've never strayed from the resorts that might sound weird, but if you've been deep in the rainforest or visited the top of Mauna Kea, you'll know the feeling. What IZ did for love with Facing Future, Beamer does for spirituality on this album, and both will give you goosebumps.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Two native masters join hands across the big water, Sep 14 2005

By Pamela S. Barcita "Honey Cat" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Our Beloved Land (Audio CD)

These two masters of native music create a blend never heard before. As a collector of native american recordings I find this refreshing, haunting, mellow and full of spirit. I listen when my soul needs to be nourished, which is often in this material world.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, Dec 30 2005

By Margot Noir - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Our Beloved Land (Audio CD)

The atmospheres musically created by these two masters results in one of the most awesome CDs ever recorded. In this day of cloned & sampled digital music, it is so refreshing to hear two virtuoso musicains laying down fresh material never before attempted, and with astounding success. Nakai is at his usual spendid self, but Keola goes where no one has gone before. Singing deep spiritual Hawaiian chants while his Slack Key minor chord useage creates soulful atmospheres and melodies that Nakai fills with his haunting Native American flute. This CD is a true masterpiece and Keola's finest recording.

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