Echoes Playlist PETER
KATER: RETURN TO VIRTUAL NATIVE SOIL
Pianist Peter Kater spent most of the 1990s working with Native
American flute player R. Carlos Nakai in a series of acclaimed
CDs of duets, chamber ensembles and soundtracks. On his latest
CD, RED MOON (Silverwave), Kater returns to that fertile soil,
recording an album of Native American chamber arrangements with
an undertow of electronica rhythms. Teaming up with Nakai, Mary
Youngblood and other Native musicians, Kater orchestrates an ambient
native chamber music, even though during its making, few of the
players were ever in the same state, let alone the same studio.
Kater shows us how he created his virtual ensemble.