Crossroads

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Product Description For the first time Crossroads melds the music of the native people of the Great Plains and Mexico. Featuring award winning flutist Robert Tree Cody and Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, Crossroads is a colorful blend of indigenous flutes (Native American, Mayan and Aztec), pulsing drums and ancient chants. Tree, who performs regularly across the southwest and Xavier, who is known throughout southern California as a member of the group America Indigina, present twelve amazing songs on this landmark album. Amazon.com Crossroads is a meeting across the southern border with Robert Tree Cody, a Native flute player of the Dakota and Maricopa tribes, and Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, born in Guadalajara and reputedly of the Huichol tribe of Mexico's indigenous people. He specializes in pre-Colombian instruments, including Aztec and Mayan flutes. Their cultures and instruments are close relatives and the two find a common ground in slow and midtempo acoustic trance grooves ornamented by an array of little percussion instruments, including rattles, rainsticks, rasps, and drums. These form the atmospheres for their simple flute melodies and chants. Extreme stereo panning amplifies rhythmic counterpoints over the native "one beat," especially in the cross rhythms of "Procession of the Jaguar King." --John Diliberto