From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!cak Newsgroups: net.music Title: Some tasty guitar albums Article-I.D.: purdue.306 Posted: Tue Jul 20 23:05:32 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 06:43:13 1982 Just thought I would pass along a couple of albums a friend recently turned me on to. They are 'Soliloquy' by David Qualey and 'It Takes a Year' by William Ackerman. Both are solo guitar -- Qualey is a classical guitarist, complete with nylon strings, and Ackerman tends towards Fahey. I found both in the Jazz section of my favorite record store in cincy, though they might also be found in the Bluegrass section (one can never tell). Both play their own compositions, and the records are really excellent. I first heard them on a cassette, and played the tape almost non-stop for three days. Beautiful stuff. Took me a while to actually find the vinyl, but once I did, it was yet another treat. Apparently Ackermann started his own label a couple of years ago: Windham Hill Records. Both albums are on that label. The pressings are the cleanest I've heard for quite some time; the recordings seem to be basic analog, but there is absolutely no record surface noise, no warp, no crap of any kind on the records. What a change! Windham Hill also carries some other seemingly obscure acoustic artists; one of the albums in the catalog is a sampler, which includes some other guitarists and acoustic pianists. Wonderful music to lay back and relax to after a long day, to code by, to drive by....to do most anything by. Very very soothing. In case you hadn't noticed; I like them an awful lot. Anyone else heard them? Qualey especially. Has he recorded elsewhere? Chris Kent, Purdue CS Dept.