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William Ackerman, Past Light
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1737785
Disk length: 46m 24s (10 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1983
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Visiting | 6:11 |
| 2. Garden | 4:24 |
| 3. Three Observations Of One Ocean | 3:34 |
| 4. Pacific II | 3:16 |
| 5. Synopsis | 5:10 |
| 6. Ventana | 5:24 |
| 7. Threes | 5:09 |
| 8. Synopsis II | 4:22 |
| 9. Rain To River | 6:28 |
| 10. Night Slip | 2:18 |
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Review
Guitarist William Ackerman was still writing the book on the new age genre when this album came to light in the '80s, back when he operated the Windham Hill record label. You can hear many of the distinct, far-flung elements of the meditative, often-derided music mingling here in a somewhat pre-commercial state: classical, funk, folk, and more. Ackerman's guitar playing is often light as air, but his technique suggests a formidable aesthetic at work, rendering softness with expert, crafty precision. The slurpy electric bass on the opening track, "Visiting," doesn't do the rest of the album justice, especially the intricate, Tangerine Dream-style minimalism of "Synopsis." Of additional interest: the track titled "Garden," a fairly straightforward Utopian nod to "Greensleeves," features Ackerman's neighbors, the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet. Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud also guests on "Three Observations of the Ocean," a duet. --Marc Weidenbaum
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Tracks: 10, Disk length: 46m 24s
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 46m 24s
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Tracks: 10, Disk length: 46m 18s (-1m 54s)
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