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[1980] George Winston - Autumn

Vinyl, Windham Hill Records - WH-1012

Photography by Ron May. Design by William Ackerman.

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It’s not spooky or eerie or Halloween-like, but this is my current Samhain/autumn jam. Listen to it and tell me that it doesn’t absolutely fill you with an intense longing and yearning. This feeling cannot be captured into words or lyrics. It’s something else entirely.

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Happy 70th, William Ackerman.

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I don’t know who the art director was over at Windham Hill, but they did some incredible work. They were like the Blue Note of New Age.

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It's the first snowy day of the year where I am, so time to listen to this per my personal tradition of trying to get into the holiday spirit (let's just say my idea of winter/Christmas music is very much NOT anything mainstream).

from "A Winter's Solstice"(1985)　Windham Hill Records　「ニュー・イングランド・モーニング」　ウィリアム・アッカーマンアルバム「ウィンター・コレクション」から　 "A Winter's Solstice"http://www.

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A-T-3 087 And It's Illegal

Part 6 wittering on about reissues when they make up 75% of album sales in the US

I've not touched upon the internet yet. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) sharing sites sped up the process of what was already happening with major record labels resulting in the triopoly of the 'big three' that remain Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group. Sony is the only one still parented by a media corporation and ultimately the conglomerate Sony, the ownership of other two are shared by large investment conglomerates. P2P like Napster and Limewire shook the music industry up, questions were asked about how these conglomerates should still exploit musicians and extract profit when people could download music for free, reminiscent of Home Taping Is Killing Music hysteria

P2P music sharing was perfect for music geekery, for the first time ever those mythical recordings that were talked about could be searched for and heard not instantly but overnight. It was like spending all day everyday in a record shop trying out new music. And we didn't stop buying records, not even slow down. I read a lot of books on music history, books like The Rough Guide To Reggae and Love Saves The Day now you could look up music as you were reading about it

DjHistory began its all things Dj and records online forum around 2000, not long after founders Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton released their book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. I lurked on the forums a bit, not much, but I avoided getting sucked in like many of my record collecting and Dj friends (I also have a long term illness which despite me trying gets in the way, if you're taking something like learning it's only polite to put something back into it.) I like the Dj community, they're a good laugh, it's a bit blokey but that's been changing

Andrew Hogge began lovefingers.org in 2006 posting a single Fingertrack mp3 more or less everyday for 4-years. The Fingertracks were mostly obscure discoveries made by people that spend way too much time hunting for moments of recorded magic. What emerged was a well curated collection of mp4s which resonated with me and many other like-minded people, I think I read at its peak Lovefingers was getting 100k hits a day. Other sites followed like Bumrocks, Dirty Sound System, Feel My Bicep. These sites also shared record collector knowledge with the curious. Listening to the music on these sites was the first time I realised the more you discover the less you knew

These websites had a positive impact and encouraged compilations of more obscure music and reissues outside the usual

I got an invitation to beta test Spotify in 2008, at this time there were no regional restrictions to music catalogues so you could find, say, German copies of albums with different takes, mixes, or extra tracks. The catalogue was overwhelming, it still is. When the catalogue reduced, regional markets went into effect, artists pulled their music to negotiate, and adverts were introduced it became less interesting to me and I took it off my computer. I like record shops and searching through the racks of music, I enjoy the social (or anti-social depending on what way you view it) aspect to it. It's also a more chaotic when looking though boxes of second hand records who knows what you might find, sometimes there might be forgotten about notes in the sleeves or the sleeves might be decorated in graffiti and stickers

Bandcamp is cool though. There's a 'sense' of supporting the artist and many artists who haven't had releases for decades have put their music on Bandcamp. Of course depending on who owns the rights the money might not go to the artist but sometimes this might be the first time they see revenue from a session done 40-years-ago. It's also an outlet for new music, what do you recon, is Bandcamp a new MySpace? With reissue packages becoming so expensive (personally I'm not arsed about coloured vinyl) digital downloads on Bandcamp are the budget option and also a way of getting your hands on out-of-print material

William Ackerman - Synopsis was Fingertrack 094. William Ackerman is founder of Windham Hill Records which is now controlled by Legacy/Sony