Audio Fidelity - AFZLP 256 -  180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - 1st Time on Vinyl

Mastered by Steve Hoffman - Numbered Limited Edition - Pressed at RTI 

Will Ackerman’s 2005 Grammy award winning recording Returning is coming on 180g vinyl for the first time.  

Ackerman is universally recognized as the preeminent pioneer and face of the new age music movement.  Will is also the founder of the legendary Windham Hill Records. 

Ackerman re-recorded an album of his best-known songs, a greatest hits collection with all new performances.  Will took 11 of his favorite songs and recorded them for posterity in a way that reflects a maturing beauty they have picked up along the road. 
Included in this very special collection are “The Bricklayer’s Beautiful Daughter”, “Anne’s Song”, “Pictures” and “Barbara’s Song”.  All the well-known classics are here.  A one of a kind compilation.

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 -- some originally recorded with an ensemble -- from 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.

Side 1
    Bricklayer’s Beautiful Daughter
    Anne’s Song
    The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit
    Pictures
    Hawk Circle
    
Side 2
    Barbara’s Song
    Unconditional
    Visiting
    Processional
    In A Region of Clouds
    Last Day at the Beach

THE ULTIMATE SOUND QUALITY FROM AUDIO FIDELITY
You've never heard your favorite music sound this good!  
The clarity is truly exceptional.

Engineers Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray use their 30 years of expertise to create the best sounding versions of the music ever released.

Our Vinyl series of 180g Virgin Vinyl 12” LPs features some of the classic recorded concert performances of all time.  These are both single or double-gatefold album packages that include all the details and imagery of the recorded performance.  The titles in the series include albums at both 33 1/3 rpm as well as some soon to be released at 45 rpm for the peak in quality of sound.  This unique set of recordings truly lives up to our name by offering the ultimate sound experience, absolute Audio Fidelity.

Audio Fidelity, it’s as simple as 1-2-3……our three basic principles

To be associated with classic artists and entertainers;
To keep the integrity of the artist’s original vision intact; and,
To reproduce vintage recordings with the finest quality sound based on our supreme standards of quality control.