VA - Windham Hill Presents Ambient Acoustic (2002)

VA - Windham Hill Presents Ambient Acoustic (2002)



mp3 @ 320 Kbps | 345 Mb. | New Age, Easy Listening


What's surprising about this collection is not that they did it, but that it took them so long. Windham Hill records, and the label it swallowed, Private Music, wrote at least a chapter or two on chill-out music. But they've never targeted that audience before. This double CD draws from the usual Windham Hill-Private Music suspects and creates a seamless listening experience, ambient on disc one, acoustic on disc two. Disc One: Ambient features some of the pioneers of ambient music: Mark Isham, Tangerine Dream, and Patrick O'Hearn. But most of the disc draws from the melodic, bucolic, and orchestral side with State of Grace, David Arkenstone, and even Yanni. None of them are ambient by any stretch, but they do fall into an elegant flow that's more evocative than chilled. Disc Two: Acoustic has all the Windham Hill pioneers, including George Winston, Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, and Philip Aaberg. Together, they create a pastoral flow from solo guitars to small chamber ensembles. I wouldn't bring this disc into a chill-out room, but for elegant atmospheres and pastoral moods, Windham Hill Chill has more than enough charms.


Tracklist:

CD1: AMBIENT

1. Paul Schwartz (The Paul Schwartz Project): Vol De Nuit 4:23
2. Yanni: To the One Who Knows 5:25
3. Mark Isham: Raffles in Rio 4:27
4. Froese, Haslinger & Froese (Tangerine Dream): Cool at Heart 6:03
5. Richard Schonherz & Peter Scott: One Night in Vienna 5:10
6. Philip Glass (Ravi Shankar): Ragas in Minor Scale 7:28
7. Philippe Saisse: Glamorous Glennis 2:48
8. Patrick O'hearn: Malevolent Landscape 4:34
9. Garrett Schwarz (Balligomingo): Marooned 4:46
10. Paul Schwartz (State Of Grace): Miserere 5:49
11. Chuck Greenberg (Shadowfax): Shadowdance 5:16
12. Oystein Sevag: The Door is Open 5:19
13. David Arkenstone: Into the Dreamtime 7:01
14. Fred Simon: Time and the River 4:19

CD2: ACOUSTIC

1. Richard Dworsky: A Morning with the Roses 4:20
2. Michael Hedges: Rickover's Dream 4:24
3. George Winston: Cloudburst 2:48
4. Brian Keane - Carol Tatum (Angels of Venice): After the Harvest 6:27
5. Alex De Grassi: Western 3:55
6. Jeff Johnson - Brian Dunning: The Dream of Taliesin 4:13
7. Philip Aaberg: Marias River Breakdown 4:45
8. Will Ackerman: Shelia's Pictures 5:14
9. Phil Coulter, David L. Cooke New Age Chamber Orchestra (Johan Sebastian Bach-Charles Gounod):Prelude in C with Ave Maria 3:13
10. Liz Story: Wedding Rain 5:31
11. Sean Harkness: Coming Home 5:11
12. Rhil Coulter, David L. Cooke The New Age Chamber Orchestra : Sunlight on the Water 4:09
13. Steve Erquiaga (Gabriel Faure): Pavane 4:11
14. Nightnoise (Johnny Cunningham): Night in That Land 3:06
15. Samite: Having a Good Time 6:02
16. W.G. Snuffy Walden: Alone 3:43

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Pass: elcangrejo

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