William Ackerman

Early Windham Hill albums such as Ackerman's aerial and mostly solo "Passage" from 1981 set the tone for New Age music of the last two decades. "Processional" has since become standard repertoire for most every would-be New Age guitarist.

If you demand "Boogie!" from your turntable and nothing else, Windham Hill's music will
come off like diminished chords emanating from a hot tub. But if you spend a fair amount of
time wandering in a mental landscape of koans and quarks, you may find that Alex de Grassi
and William Ackerman can have a highly salutary effect on your inner processes. Both
essentially solo acoustic guitarists, de Grassi and Ackerman play a pensive hybri... More >