专辑简介Fans of the kind of gentle, introspective, and melodic acoustic guitar playing that helped define new age music in its late ´70s and ´80s heyday will make fast friends with this collection of reinterpretations by one of the genre´s formative masters. Ackerman, whose career spans from his cheaply recorded 1976 debut, ...The Turtle´s Navel, through his Grammy-nominated 2001 hit Hearing Voices, made an an art form out of musical reflection while also founding and guiding Windham Hill into a presence as one of the world´s top instrumental labels. His goal was to take a series of 11 favorite songs,ome originally recorded with an ensemble,rom 1970-1997 and record them for posterity in a way that reflects the emotional nuances, precision, and maturing beauty they´ve picked up along the road. He includes the graceful and lushly melodic "The Bricklayer´s Beautiful Daughter" (which he names the best song he ever wrote), the sweet and melancholy "Anne´s Song" (inspired by working with fellow genre legends Alex de Grassi and Michael Hedges), and two peaceful early gems from 1970, "Pictures" and "Barbara´s Song." Some were written as celebrations ("Unconditional"), others as elegies ("The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit"), but all are intricate snapshots of a vastly influential musical life that keeps inventive to this day.