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Natural States: David Lanz & Paul Speer

Since its release, the video has achieved multi-platinum sales and the soundtrack album has sold several hundred thousand units. Considered by many to be one of the outstanding works in the contemporary instrumental genre, it also spawned the hit single, "Behind the Waterfall."

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The visuals, directed and photographed by Emmy winning director, Jan C. Nickman, are a journey of wonder into the beautiful and lush Pacific Northwestern United States. The music by Lanz and Speer was painstakingly composed to perfectly match the stunning images of nature.

PEOPLE MAGAZINE REVIEW
"NATURAL STATES A dusky forest behind a scrim of sunshine, a frothy collision of waterfalls, the ice-blue peaks of a forbidding mountain range soothe the eye in this expertly crafted mix of music and images. Filmed in the Pacific Northwest, this 45-minute voyage pulls the viewer into what seem like secret corners of the universe. No discarded beer can or abandoned shoe gives a clue of human intrusion. Seattle producer-director Jan Nickman has created a video album to be replayed like an LP. David Lanz and Paul Speer scored the tape, using woodwinds to lend a haunted quality to some segments. The same team produced Desert Vision, which sweeps viewers over the burnt orange mesas and into the baked canyons of the Southwest. Among the spectacular images: New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns (off the usual tourist route), where the camera (a Steadicam operated by Jeff Mart) hovers among the monster stalactites and stalagmites." Copyright Time, Inc. 1987 from "People Weekly" Oct. 19, 1987.


VARIOUS MEDIA REVIEW
Natural States is, quite simply, some of the prettiest music you're likely to hear. David Lanz and Paul Speer together expand "New Age" or "ambient music" into tonal colors more familiar to jazz-rock fans while still maintaining a basically minimalistic framework. The video is a series of Steadicam (and aerial) journeys over the Pacific coastline, through the Northwest rainforests, or up a snow-covered Mt. Rainier, edited to the music by talented filmmaker Jan Nickman. Robert Carlberg, Various Media, 1985

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