Will Ackerman - Little Hartley Music

October 2010
No 1
LITTLE
HARTLEY
MUSIC
Featuring albums
produced by the founder of
Windham Hill Records
Will Ackerman
Contemporary Instrumental,
Easy Listening & World Music
LITTLE
HARTLEY
MUSIC
is dedicated to promoting the very best in new
music. Music inspired by the world,
the landscape, our emotions and our thoughts…
This is beyond genre - just good music
that lifts the spirit and soothes the soul
Special Introductory Offer
Purchase
five artists for $72.00+
$12 Postage
And receive FREE
Award winning album
Portrait of a Waterfall
by Fiona Joy Hawkins
This offer also includes a FREE
6 CD table-top stand
[email protected]
Phone: +61 0428 637 498
Cat No
Title
True
Artist
Jeff Oster
Number
837101377034
Produced by Will Ackerman
RR11003
*Imagine Miles Davis meets Enya* Winner of the 2007 NAR Lifestyle Music
Awards for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Album. A CD Baby
Editor ‘s Pick in New Age: Contemporary Instrumental, Jazz World Fusion
and Soundtrack. As you listen, imagine...
Released
Jeff Oster
837101067706
Produced by Will Ackerman
RR11002
Winner -Two NAR Lifestyle Music Awards; Album of the Year and Best
Contemporary Instrumental Album. Winner - Independent Music Award
(Best New Age Song - AT LAST -Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman).
“Released is an excellent recording from every standpoint...I’m delighted to
highly recommend it with room to spare”.
Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire.
The Other Side
Paul Jensen
884501058506
Produced by Will Ackerman
PJ1060-3
Modern folk music with beautiful acoustic guitar and vocals. Paul’s voice is
gentle and true, and his lyrics are spiritual and often refer to nature. The
music is calming and effortless with a couple of uptempo exceptions. If you
like Dan Fogelberg and John Denver you will love this.
Trillium
Kori Linae Carothers
884501146432
Produced by Will Ackerman
KLC010
Trillium is a brilliant coalescence of acoustic and electronic music that carries the listener through an array of cinematic imageries to pure dancing in
the aisles, recommended if you like Mannheim Steamroller, Shadowfax or
Tangerine Dream. The key word for this album is diversity, with everything
from contemporary to Celtic to Native American. Carothers has a winner
with this album and we highly recommend it.
Rainshadow Sky
JPM002
Jeff Pearce
884501032643
No wonder this album was so high on the charts and won NAR Album of
the Year 2008. Those of us who know JP's music have come to enjoy his
pensive melodies, and in Rainshadow Sky we are invited to follow yet another exquisite ripple of thought typical of Windham Hill.
Cat No
Title
Artist
Portrait of a Waterfall Fiona Joy Hawkins
FJH001
Fiona Joy Hawkins
9329408002791
A beautiful and emotional journey. Atmospheric and captivating, this romantic piano album takes you from the perfect ‘Hollywood movie moment’
to the extraordinary wilderness of Antarctica. In 2006 Angel Above My Piano won the NAR Lifestyle Award for Best Piano Album and charted at
the top of the NAR International radio charts.
ICE-Piano Slightly
Chilled
FJH003
9329408002258
Described as ‘music to dream to’, Portrait of a Waterfall features piano
and calms the mind and yet allows it’s listener to become lost in the
beauty of romantic melodies. An ambient album perfect for massage,
yoga, contemplation or just to live by. Portrait of a Waterfall debuted at #1
on the NAR International radio charts.
Angel Above My
Piano
FJH002
Number
Fiona Joy Hawkins
634479625206
ICE is an exciting mix of piano and rhythm—instrumental chill at its very
best… but like nothing you have EVER heard before! Sensual, with some
vocal tracks, ICE covers chill, jazz, world and rock, with a taste of the unusual thrown into the mix. ICE charted at #1 on the NAR International Radio Charts and won the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards Best Chill Album in
2008.
Music for Massage
Fiona Joy Hawkins
884502238402
Produced by Will Ackerman
FJH009
Dream, imagine… Take an hour journey and fill your senses. Perfect for
massage or meditation. Be swept away, be quiet within your soul yet take
in the beauty, be at peace.
Artist Review
Fiona Joy Hawkins
Fiona Joy Hawkins crosses genres from Contemporary Instrumental, to World, Jazz and New Age. She has four award winning
albums; Portrait of a Waterfall, Angel Above My Piano, ICEPiano Slightly Chilled & Blue Dream.
Fiona charted #1 on the New Age Reporter International Radio Charts,
achieving the highest ranking in the history of the charts, been an ARIA
Finalist, won the ZMR Album of the Year, Best Piano Album (twice) and
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Dance/Chill Album as well
as winning the MusicOZ Award for Best Classical/Jazz Artist in 2008,
with over 43 nominations in Indie Artist Awards across nine countries.
In 2010 Fiona won prestigious awards in an unprecedented 3 categories
in the Zone Music Reporters Awards, and the CD Baby top seller in both
World Music, New Age and Contemporary Instrumental.
Fiona is currently recording “600 Years in a Moment” and also records
for ABC Music (Blue Dream) .
www.fionajoyhawkins.com.au
Jeff Oster - TRUE
Produced by Grammy Award winner Will Ackerman
Mixed by the legendary engineer Bruce Swedien (Michael Jackson,
Count Basie, Duke Ellington)
Grammy Award winner Corin Nelsen (Will Ackerman) and
Bryan Carrigan (Alanis, No Doubt)
Mastered by Bob Ludwig (Gateway Mastering)
Chosen as a Top 25 CD for 2007 by both Echoes’
Listeners and Producers. WINNER - 2008 Independent
Music Award - Best New Age Song ( Saturn Calling)
On “True”, Oster’s flugelhorn and trumpet expands and goes beyond the themes of “Released”. Once again produced by guitarist
and Windham Hill founder, Will Ackerman, “True” maintains many of
the characteristics of “Released” with sophisticated electronic looping, harmonized and multi-tracked flugelhorn lines and textured,
ambient arrangements.
With its illusory edges and blurring of electric and acoustic textures
provided by sound designer Brian Carrigan, “True” is deftly sequenced. It accommodates dark film noir moods on "This Place"
along with the jubilant, uplifting "Mumbai”, a triumphant ode with a
surging drum loop, Melissa R. Kaplan's wailing wordless vocals and
Oster's clarion flugelhorn cries sounding the charge.
“There have been a million recordings of horn players, some of
them utterly brilliant, but in all these recordings there has never
been anyone who incorporates so many influences or blurs genres
or traditions as gracefully as Jeff Oster does. The elements are
familiar, but the synthesis is unique. This is a milestone recording”.
Will Ackerman (Founder Windham Hill Records)
“Oster has an incredible talent for writing lush, visual music..”
R J Lannan - New Age Reporter
Album Reviews
Kori Linae Carothers -Trillium
Produced by Grammy Award winner Will Ackerman
Engineer, Mixing & Mastering by Grammy Award winner Corin
Nelsen at Imaginary Road Studios
“Kori's ‘Trillium’ project is a brilliant coalescence of acoustic and electronic music
that carries the listener through an array
of cinematic imageries to pure dancing in the aisles”.
Corin Nelsen - Imaginary Road Studio, Windham Hill
“There are many stunning moments on this fantastic
multi-instrumental CD. Kori has a gentle, yet strident, piano
style... in other words, her music doesn't invade you with
overbearing penetration... rather it's like she's breathing
through her fingers for you”.
Dick Metcalf - September 2009
“Kori Carothers is, without question a brilliant pianist and
composer. What sets her apart, however, is the broad
range of styles she utilizes so gracefully. Kori moves between the worlds of achingly beautiful acoustic piano composition and lavish keyboard production with remarkable
ease. The result ‘Trillium’ a cohesive collection of compositions of stunning breadth and dynamic range, confidently
held together by her singular musical voice”.
Will Ackerman - Founder of Windham Hill Records.
Wholesale Price
$14.50 +GST (Apply for bulk discount)
Postage charged at cost.
Special Introductory
Offer
Purchase
five artists for $72.00
+ $12 Postage
And receive FREE
Award winning album
Portrait of a Waterfall
by Fiona Joy Hawkins
This offer also includes
a FREE 6 CD table-top stand
[email protected]
Phone: +61 0428 637 498
COMING SOON to Little Hartley Music
More exciting artists including
Grammy Winning Guitarist
Will Ackerman
Founder of Windham Hill Records
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