Excellent addition to any rock music collection.
Shadowdance confidently strides into the Windham Hill catalog with the showstopping New Electric India, electric guitar and thundering bass resounding.
Essential: A masterpiece of progressive rock music.
The legendary first pressing of Shadowfax is that I present today.
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
On several occasions I have spoken of the important role of radio in my knowledge of music: Groups or soloist are lost in the distance and the little diffusion.
An excellent acoustic Dutch guitarist
Harry Sacksioni (born 23 October 1950 in Amsterdam) is a composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin. The peak of his fame was during the 1970s to 1990s.
Essential: a masterpiece of Fusion music
Nightnoise is the first Windham Hill album to include Celtic music influence, at a time before Celtic music was considered one of the pillars of New Age (along with synthesizer washes and the more folk-inspired music that Windham Hill is best known for.
I return to the Windham Hill label, today with the Jazz-Fusion pianist Scott Cossu.
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
SHADOWFAX. Nice name for a progressive rock band. At least that's how they started off. Named after Gandalf's a horse in Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings.
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive folk music.
This is a 'nostalgia trip' for me, since the band was founded in the second half of the Seventies I have seen fellow Dutchmen Flairck at least 10 times during the tours of the albums Variaties Op Een Dame (1978), Gevecht Met De Engel (1980) and Circus (1981), mainly in the wonderful venue Diligensia in my hometown The Hague.
These four pieces are arranged for solo guitar along with four duets, featuring cello, English horn, piano by George Winston and violin by Darol Anger.
For his fifth album, Ackerman added new instrumental colors to his guitar work.