Windham Hill Memories

Today, I will be reviewing a CDs of the band, Nightnoise. This one was put out as part of the " A Windham Hill Retrospective" series from 1992. Here are the images: Here is the front cover of the case.  Here is the back of the case.  This is the inside of the case.  And here is the CD. Not as shiny as the Modern Mandolin Quartet one though. I won't tell you much on them just yet, but I will when I review them in a future post. But I will tell you for now that Nightnoise was a music group that performed from 1984 to 1997. Their style of music consisted of Irish traditional music, Celtic music, jazz, and classical chamber music, which inspired a generation of Irish musicians to perform in a similar style. Nightnoise has released seven albums on the Windham Hill label and at least two "greatest hits" albums that are being reviewed on this very blog. To learn more on the band, click here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightnoise

This week on Windham Hill Memories, I am going to briefly talk about a CD by a orchestra group called the Modern Mandolin Quartet. I found this CD at Goodwill (along with my other Windham Hill finds) about a month ago. Here are the images: This is the front cover and CD case.   This is the inside of the case. Here is the CD in my hand. It's so shiny that you can see me taking a picture of it. And finally, here is the back of the CD case. For those who don't know, MMQ is a string quartet group of mandolin family instruments, composing classical and bluegrass music, and the group was co-founded by Mike Marshall of Montreux fame. While still a member of Montreux before the band broke up, Marshall, who had a passion and strenth for classical music, co-founded MMQ in 1986. The group released four recordings under the Windham Hill label, then other labels years onwards. In 1995, they arrived at Carnegie Hall and their latest album, Americana is availa