Loving to play the native flute part of the Coahuila nation want my music to touch your mind body and soul. Peace comes from with in.

Southwest Wold musician based in New Mexico. Native American flutes, Pan instruments like the Halo, Hang, Moyo. World percussion and flutes, vocals, singer-songwriter. Touring and recording artist. Indian Summer Awards winner, NAMMY nominee. 

Being one with the Native American Flute.

Waaju believe in highlighting the world's connection through less familiar creative collaboration. Encapsulating influence from a number of cultures across Africa, South America & beyond, the band delves deeper to leave behind preconception & promote forces largely unexplored in a Western context. Citing the rich history of Malian music as centrepiece, Waaju presents the vision of drummer & percussionist Ben Brown which draws from the exceptional spirit of the likes of Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare, Tinariwen & Baba Sissoko.

Waaju is:

Sam Rapley - tenor saxophone
Tal Janes - guitar
Joe Downard - bass
Ernesto Marichales - percussion
Ben Brown - drums & percussion

I’m a Composer, Poet & Lyricist, Crossover-Vocalist, Voice Instructor, Harpist, Pianist, Organist, Native American Flautist, Etc., for: Helping All Find a Peaceful Paradise Within. THANK YOU for Listening to, 'Liking' my music, and for 'Following' me in SoundCloud at soundcloud.com and under the name of my site titled ‘Of Oceans & Seas & Beyond’!…

As of 30 March 2023: I was born with 2 genetic and major and very rare and incurable eye disorders, which had caused me to become about 60% blind at this time of 69 years old, and I just went through an eye emergency and another surgery on 7 March to replace a nearly 20 year old artificial lens that totally dislodged on 4 March and made me fully legally blind as that artificial lens was floating aimlessly around in the center of my eye’s vitreous. I went through a Vitrectomy to also clean out the debris from a Vitreous sack detachment in August of 2022, and of course, the dislodged artificial lens had to be broken into 3 sections and carefully removed out of my Vitreous at the same time. Meantime, my vision was like looking through a heavily-frosted shower door glass, in which all I could see was a little bit of color and some movement of people or dogs or the blurred color of stationary things. 
However, a Great Miracle occurred between March 4th and 7th, when right after my private fervent inner Prayer, that after my bending way down, and carefully sitting back up, my artificial lens floated back into place for an hour and I could perfectly see again while standing or sitting or walking, until I laid down on my back to rest and the lens floated around in my eye again! Before I laid down, I Gratefully prayed to my Almighty God - my Heavenly Father through His Beloved Son Jesus Christ about that Miracle! I had prior discovered that the lens would temporarily float back into place if I bent my head and body way down toward the floor. Then I could read again and text and write again until I sat back up. Then my lens would aimlessly float around in my eye time after time after time. The middle of the night, I woke up about 3 AM and went into the living room, laid down on the sofa, and saw the lens floating in the center of my eye and could see the entire shape and color of it clearly, even though it was nowhere near to the place it dislodged. I thanked Heavenly Father for my literally seeing that Miracle too, and Prayed that I would be able to experience again the lens floating back into place for me to see clearly again until my pre-scheduled surgery in the following 2 days. But, I was tired and with still very blurred vision went back to sleep in my bed and awoke with blurred vision a few hours later and started to get ready for my pre-surgery appointment with my surgeon that morning. But, I bent way down toward the floor again, and Prayed more fervently for my lens and vision to return to where they were for that hour the day before, and as I carefully and slowly sat up while still Praying and pleading with the Lord that I had much I needed to accomplish before my surgery that next day, my lens and vision returned to not only see all of that day and even through the night as I awoke several times to test it to see if it all was still clear, but all the next day of the surgery in the afternoon. I was able, with my husband helping me with errands and he driving and the gardening of our daughter Lauran’s Memorial Garden we started before my lens originally totally dislodged, to get everything done before the surgery. It wasn’t until I laid down for the surgery on March 7th that my lens totally went to floating inside my eye’s vitreous again until removal. Even the day before the surgery, the surgeon could see my lens was in place for me to see clearly, but he knew there was nothing physically holding it in place because it wasn’t hooked into anything. I told him the very shape and color of my lens, and of me seeing that and describing the lens to him was a kind and subtle way of my letting him know that I wasn’t making any of this up, and I know he knew that too. 
I KNOW that by my fervent Prayer and with an unseen Angel; maybe even my deceased daughter Lauran or my deceased brother John, or my deceased parents, or even the Lord Himself, my lens was held in place by at least one of Them until I could accomplish the things I needed and wanted to complete before my eye surgery. I already had the Faith, and I already experienced many Miracles of my own and through the many Miracles of my daughter Lauran’s mortal experiences, and I KNEW that this personal eye Miracle could and would happen IF it was expedient in the Lord to happen.
Backgound: because of genetic Pars Planitis, I lost central vision in one eye in latter 1979 after scarring so badly inside that eye after a retinal detachment repair surgery. The scarring also caused my retina to detach again. My other genetic eye disorder, Retinitis Pigmentosa, had deteriorated a lot of peripheral vision in both of my eyes, but also deteriorated my inner vision natural lens capsule tissue at the place where the original artificial lens was hooked in, and caused the hooks and lens to dislodge out of place. My highly-gifted Eye Surgeon had to hook the new artificial lens into the Sclera (white part of my eye) because my natural lens capsule was totally deteriorated from Retinitis Pigmentosa. My original artificial lenses were placed in both my eyes in the summer of 2003. My first eye artificial lens was placed because of experimenting with that eye to see whether I further scarred or not in that already blind eye before placing an artificial lens in my still-seeing eye. However, in about 2010, my lens in my blind eye dislodged and slid downward inside the outer part of my natural lens capsule. Nobody, not even myself wants to do anything to fix that. To do a fix of that lens would not restore that eye’s vision anyway.
While still in recovery, this date of June 12, 2023, I am currently using a magnifying glass coupled with a magnified reader’s lens in sunglasses to write this information.
I cannot yet see as well as before the dislodging and surgery, not even with these sunglasses and magnifying glass I’m using to write this part of my history. On 21 March 2023, the inner pressure of both of my eyes went dangerously high with Open-angle Glaucoma, another blinder if not treated for life, and so I must use special eye drops to help bring and keep that pressure down. I also had a 6 week suture in my upper cornea edge, which was removed in latter April, and I still had a lot of inflammation from the surgery, but I and my surgeons are hopeful with time and good doctoring that healing and probably further prescription sunglasses are what it will take for me to see well-enough again; even well-enough to drive a car again whenever I need to or want. 
All this does not mean that I will ever again in this life be able to see better than 40%, if even that much after recovery and aging, because again, my eye disorders are incurable. However, I continue to do my best to practice my musical instruments and singing with or without sight. I now and will forever say that even or especially with these eye problems, I have every reason to be, and am, so grateful to Almighty God for this gift of music!…
I have sung as long as I had learned to make vocal sounds as an infant, and am still singing now at age 72. Being a Crossover-Vocalist means I can sing in different, even many, genres and styles. I sing from Country to Opera, and a whole lot of genres and styles in-between. I can sing very low and I can sing very high, and of course, in-between. I love to sing harmony as well. I sang in school and church choirs and also in a professional choir in Europe, and was chosen out occasionally for some solos; even to sing ‘Rejoice Greatly’ in a Messiah Concert in a beautiful German Cathedral in 1988. Then, I studied operatic voice with European and Canadian Opera Star - Jessica Ernst in the Netherlands. I have taught voice in Germany and here across the United States, and my sole vocal purpose and specialty and technique is to help and teach others to maintain their beautiful singing voices for LIFE, because without this technique, as happened to me before I found Jessica, I nearly ruined and lost my singing voice in my young 30s! I'm so grateful to the Almighty Godhead for giving me the Blessing of Jessica and Singing in my life!
I started playing the organ ‘by ear’ at age 3, and started composing and arranging at the piano at age 12. I have had about 1.5 years of piano lessons, if even that much, but have mostly played instruments by ear for the majority of my life.
In my personal travels, my singing voice and some of my compositions have been heard live from Europe to Australia and other Countries in-between. I am so very grateful and feel very Blessed for such amazing experiences!
Now, in SoundCloud, I have been heard in over half of the countries on this planet! Thank You SoundCloud and Thank You Listeners!!!
I own nearly 70 musical instruments of various kinds and various sizes, and try to implement some of them into my recordings, including in SoundCloud. When it comes to musical instruments, I am like a kid in a candy store in trying to play them and maybe purchase some of them. I become really excited about each one of them in learning to play them!
Since age 13, I have directed music in my Church, and sometimes in elementary schools. I have been an Organist and Pianist  in Church. I love to accompany other soloists and choirs with piano, organ, and my harps. I love to add my harp music to occasional live orchestras, as well. I often sing along with playing my harps. I have received many compliments when so doing, and some have said I have an angelic singing voice along with my playing the harps angelically. I’m humbly Grateful for their feedback!
I was a Music Chairman/Coordinator and Music Director and Leader from November 2019 - March 2025 in my Church, but I asked to be released from those duties so that I could spend more time with my super-busy husband of 51 years (as I write this on September 17, 2025).
Until my 7 March 2023 eye surgery, I was arranging Church Hymns Choir Music on computer and mixing English and Spanish lyrics into some of them since we are mostly an English and Spanish speaking Congregation. We also have Native Americans in our Church, and I know of several others from Madagascar, Germany, the Orient, and Polynesian Islands in our Church. We are a very diverse and closely-knit group of Church-goers, and musical people here in our Church! With new full trifocal prescription sunglasses acquired in July 2023, I was able to arrange the Church Music again!
Yes, I'm so VERY grateful to the Almighty Godhead - Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit for the Blessing of Music in my life!

Saxophone & World Flute Performer/Recording Artist, Composer, Instructor, Audio Engineer. Member: NARAS (Grammy voting member), HMMA (voting member), ASCAP, World Flute Society.

Ed Koban is a Guitarist and Native American Flutist. By blending the sounds of rock, blues, jazz, with the haunting sounds of the Native American Flute he gives life to a fresh and original sound, that sounds new and satisfying. He has performed as guitarist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Nokie Edwards from the Ventures, Grammy Winner Tina Marie Johnson from '70s disco sensation Taste of Honey, and Grammy Winning Native American Artist Joanne Shenandoah. He has performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, The Kennedy Center, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival and has supported acts such as: Three Dog Night, Foghat, Molly Hatchet, Rusted Root and many others. Ed has currently started his own band- The Ed Koban Group- and is preparing to bring his unique brand of music to the world.

Hello! I am not a professional musician, but I've always really liked music.
Curiously many melodies come to my head while I sleep and thanks to the
Mobile phone I can record them and get that don’t disappear like soap bubles.
The recording is homenade (recorder and audacity).
I like to can share with you what I receive. The Native American flute is one
of my favorite instruments and all the musical compositions are preformed
with flutes that I created in my own workshop. Thanks for being there.
I hope you enjoy it!
SPANISH
Hola! yo no soy músico profesional, sin embargo
siempre me ha gustado la música.
Curiosamente muchas melodías me llegan durante el
sueño. Gracias al móvil  puedo grabarlas
y conseguir que no desaparezcan como pompas de jabón.
La grabación es casera
(grabadora y audacity). Me gusta compartir lo que recibo. La flauta nativa
americana és uno de mis instrumentos favoritos y todas las composiciones
musicales las realizo con flautas que creo en el taller. Gracias por estar ahí.
Espero que disfrutéis.


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