[net.music.classical] Windham Hill?

rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (09/24/84)

Wyndham Hill is not a group, it is a record label.  Their ads
have a list of various musical genres (rock, jazz, folk, classical),
each one crossed out, with the words Wyndham Hill (not crossed out)
at the bottom of the list.  Says something...

I haven't heard much material yet from this label, but I've been told
that the label seeks a rather diverse sound, with a fair dose of what
gets called "ECM jazz" (you have to listen to ECM to know what I'm trying
to describe).
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roger@cornell.UUCP (Roger Hoover) (09/25/84)

Windham Hill is indeed a record label, but often artists who record
on the label tour together.  This is what produced the Windham Hill
Live recordings.  I saw this years group (Lis Story, Michael Hedges,
Darol Anger, and a number of others) in Minneapolis.  It was well
worth going to.

sharpe@drivax.UUCP (Andrew Sharpe) (09/27/84)

One of the people who play on the Windham Hill label is
Will Ackerman. He is a guitarist who plays in the style
of Leo Kottke, but likes to unison overdub himself to give
a bigger sound. The reason I know about this label is that
about 5 years ago, when I was trying to break into the recording
studio field, I met a guy by the name of Scott Saxon, who
owned (owns?) Mantra Studios. This studio did the recording
of Mr. Ackerman's first and second albums. Unfortunately, I
lost contact with the studio over the years, so I don't know
if Mantra is still recording for Windham Hill.

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cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) (10/02/84)

Different Fur studios in Menlo Park does most of the recording for
Windham Hill.  I think that Shadowfax records in LA and Mark Isham
recorded _Vapor Drawings_ in London (England), though.


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