Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!dcoleman From: dcoleman@vlnvax.DEC Newsgroups: net.music Subject: windham hill Message-ID: <3902@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 17:40:11 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3902 Posted: Thu Oct 11 17:40:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 07:42:49 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 34WINDHAM HILL RECORDS - "The identification that our label has is really unprecedented; people know what Windham Hill record sounds like." The "sound" is that of the impressionistic compositions of guitarists Alex de Grassi, Michael Hedges, and Ackerman himself, plus such artists as pianist George Winston and violinist Darol Anger. "Briefly, my first record [The Search For The Turtle's Navel] was intended to be a single effort; but the response was so amazing that it engendered other projects. "Our first criterion is that the music has to connect to the heart. Technique is important, sure, but what comes first is pure heart. It doesn't hurt if an act is touring, but we don't insist on it. My own first performance, ever, was after Turtle's Navel came out, opening for Harry Chapin; and my second was at the Seattle Opera House! "Owning a studio is a good way to lose your shirt, and I don't intend to own one. We do however, have digital equipment we bring into studios that we use in the Stanford area. "A&M Records distributes our product, but they have no equity in our company, and we have complete say in quality control and production. We've gotten expert advice on production; the company that developed Quiex vinyl has created a special compound exclusively for our records. They make it easier for us to do what we always wanted to do in production and promotion, and it's being done better. I couldn't be happier with the arrangement." - From an April '84 FRETS magazine interview with Windham Hill founder William Ackerman. - Dave Coleman "sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own"