Apurimac III: Nature - Spirit - Pride is an album by the German

Germany

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 cross-cultural

Cross-cultural

cross-cultural may refer to*cross-cultural studies, a comparative tendency in various fields of cultural analysis*cross-cultural communication, a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate...

 new age

New Age music

New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...

 band Cusco

Cusco (band)

The following note applies to many of the individual album pages as well, though they are not individually tagged:Cusco is a German andean new age band named after the Peruvian city of Cusco, which at one time was the capital city of the ancient Incan Empire...

, released in 1997. The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.

All tracks on this album are related to Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 cultures of North America

North America

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. The beats, chants, and flute works depict a Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 musical style, though are made more accessible to modern ears through the use of overtly synthesized instrumentation and percussive rhythms.

Track listing

1. "Ghost Dance" (traditional)
2. "Kokopelli's Dream" (featuring Craig Chaquico
   Craig Chaquico
   Craig Chaquico is an American guitarist of Portuguese and Native American descent. He has had over thirty years of success in a variety of genres: in the 1970s with the post-Summer of Love Jefferson Starship, in that band's 1980s incarnation, Starship, and in the 1990s and 2000s as a...
   
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3. "Geronimo's Laughter"
4. "Medicine Man"
5. "Little Pigeon and Crazy Horse"
6. "Pahrump-Big Water"
7. "Dream Catcher"
8. "Legend in the Redwoods"
9. "The Hunt"
10. "White Buffalo"

Album credits

• Kristian Schultze
  Kristian Schultze
  Kristian Schultze was one half of the German New Age band Cusco. Schultze has partnered up with Michael Holm and the two have produced numerous new age albums...
  
   – Arranger, programming
• Maria Ehrenreich – Director, production director
• Dan Selene – Executive producer
• Michael Holm
  Michael Holm
  Michael Holm is a German singer, musician, songwriter and producer.He is primarily known as a Schlager singer. Although his first appearance in the hit parade was in 1962 , he had his first big hit in 1969...
  
   – Arranger, producer, mixing
• Frank Von Dem Bottlenburg – Engineer, mixing
• Giuseppe Solera – Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Murry Whiteman – Paintings, photography
• Johan Daansen – Acoustic guitar
• Debra Holland – Liner notes
• Craig Chaquico – Guitar, performer
• William Aura – Digital assembly, digital mastering
• Matt Marshall – Executive producer