Desert Dance is R. Carlos Nakai`s musical interpretation of his experiences in the sacred place of his
ancestors, Colorado`s San Luis Valley. Like his critically acclaimed 1988 release, Sundance Season (13024), the Navajo–Ute musician`s latest album was recorded in the
Lindisfarne chapel, a uniquely resonant structure situated within this dramatic expanse of holy ground. Many tribes, from the early pueblo dwellers to the Kiowa, Arapaho,
and Comanche, have inhabited this alpine valley over time. Near Alamosa, Colorado, where the Great Sand Dunes lie, is the site of the Navajo`s eastern sacred mountain,
Blanca Peak, and the center of the Ute world.