Windham Hill Memories

What can I truly say about this album? It's basically like a comeback album, but contains re-recordings of previous tracks from his previous albums. On the plus side, however, this one did win the 2004 Grammy Award in the Best New Age Album category that year (it seems like just yesterday too).   Here is the video.   As always, here is the track listing: 1. The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter 2. Anne's Song 3. The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit 4. Pictures 5. Hawk Circle 6. Barbara's Song 7. Unconditional 8. Visiting 9. Processional 10. In a Region of Clouds 11. Last Day at the Beach If you wish to purchase this album, here:  http://www.amazon.com/Returning-Will-Ackerman/dp/B0002RQ2R6

I'm back! This time I will be presenting the 2001 William Ackerman album: "Hearing Voices". Unlike his other releases, Ackerman took a completely different approach - Hearing Voices contains vocalists. Here is a quote by John Diliberto:  "The founder of Windham Hill Records, Will Ackerman has stretched his sound occasionally with different instrumentation, but Hearing Voices is an entirely new approach. Picking up on his uncredited production of Samite's Stars to Share album, Ackerman enlists a group of singers that includes Samite, Happy Rhodes, Curtis King, and Heather Rankin to intone his quiet meditations, sometimes with English lyrics, other times with Native tongues and imaginary dialects. As a result, Hearing Voices has a hymnlike quality on tracks like "Somewhere in All This Green" and "Fear Not Mary." Rankin gets to do some ecstatic Gaelic chanting on "Walk with Me," which also features Ackerman's only elec...

In the late 1990s, Will Ackerman released an album of a completely beautiful style called "The Sound of Wind Driven Rain", which was released in 1998. This album contains solo guitar works, similar to that of his earlier recordings of the 1970s, as well as duets and trios. I have nothing else to say about this album at the moment. I do promise to update this post if I ever find something to add. But for now, here is your weekly album cover art. There were so many breathtaking songs from that album, that I had to choose the title track instead. As always, here is the track-listing for the album: 1. Shella's Pictures 2. A Child's Song 3. Driving  4. Lions In The Sky 5. Unconditional 6. Sound of the Wind Driven Rain 7. Wings On the Water 8. Ponchartrain 9. I Know This River 10. Hawk Circle 11. Mr. Jackson's Hat If you wish to order your own copy of the tracks or the whole album in any available format,...

Happy 2013! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday with your families and ringing in the new year together. But now it's time to get back to business. This week I'll be covering the Will Ackerman album: "A Windham Hill Retrospective: William Ackerman" from 1993. This is pretty much a "greatest hits" album if you will. Many of the artists under this label had their own "Windham Hill Retrospective" release, including those of Montreux, Mark Isham, and Alex de Grassi to name a few. This one in particular, however features many of Ackerman's earlier hits (15 tracks to be exact) and it's worth buying if you don't have, never had, and/or can't afford all of his records that were released earlier than this one. It makes it easier on one's music collection, in my opinion. Just check out this site if you wish to read the overview. http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-windham-hill-retrospective-mw0000093326 Here is you...