Windham Hill Sampler '96

1. Last Look - Torcuato Mariano

2. When the Snow Melts - Phil Cunningham, Manus Lunny

3. Theme from in Search of Angels - Tim Story

4. White Spirit - Uman

5. Playground - Henry Adam Curtis

6. Different Shore - Nightnoise

7. Jenny's Room - Andy Narell

8. Southern Jukebox Music - The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

9. If You Believe - Jim Brickman

10. Mädchenlied, Op. 85, No. 3 - Wayne Horvitz

11. Prelude in C Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier - Steve Erquiaga

12. Picture This [#] - Jim Brickman

13. Rio Amazonas [#] - Lakki Patey, Øystein Sevåg

14. Castille - Ray Obiedo

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Average customer rating: A truly wonderful sampler. Relaxative Must Have Comfort food for your heart More sentimental than ever No

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Tracks:

1. Last Look - Torcuato Mariano
2. When The Snow Melts - Phil Cunningham
3. Theme From In Search Of Angels - Tim Story
4. The White Spirit - Uman
5. Playground - Henry Adams Curtis
6. A Different Shore - Nightnoise
7. Jenny's Room - Andy Narell
8. Southern Jukebox Music - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
9. If You Believe - Jim Brickman
10. Brahms: Madchenlied, Op.85, No.3 - Wayne Horvitz
11. Prelude In C Minor From The Well-Tempered Clavier - Steve Erquiaga
12. Picture This - Jim Brickman
13. Rio Amazons - Oystein Sevag
14. Castille - Ray Obiedo

Customer Reviews:

A truly wonderful sampler. .......2004-11-01

Windham Hill is one of my favorite record labels and this 14 track collection is the best sampler of this wonderful label that I've enjoyed since early 1998 onwards. My favorite songs are teh Brazilian-tinged "Last Look" by guitarist Torcuato Mariano, the soul searching classic "When the Snow Melts" by Phil Cunningham, the worldly "White Spirit" by Uman, and closing out with "Castille" by jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo. This is a highly recommended album for long trips along the Appalacian Mountains during the rainy days of spring!

Relaxative Must Have.......2003-07-10

I love the release of this smooth jazz CD and still enjoying it. I spent most of my adolescence listening to this kind of jazz from time to time. The truth is, it has enlightened my perilous adolescent expriences. Every now and then, I occasionally listen to this CD during the overnight. I would really recommend this for older adolescent and adult listeners of jazz!

And for those who are expriencing difficulty but want time off from their children as parents, mostly adolescents, this is still a must-own!

Comfort food for your heart.......2002-09-29

It's an odd thing, really. In 1996, when this album was first released I was breaking up with my, then, girlfriend. I opened the case and slipped this CD into my Discman®. I was walking through a sheeting rainstorm, a hard, cold, upstate NY rainstorm in early March. I was crying, I was cold, I didn't really care. At track 4, the White Spirit, I stopped moving... I stood rooted to the ground, tears running down my face and rain pouring off the brim of my hat and over my oilskin coat. I was lost in the simple beauty of the music, unbidden a smile forced it's way to my mouth, and I started to walk again, leaving all my problems and worries at the spot I'd stopped.
A few years later, out of high school, I wandered off onto the road, in search of my life. Pursuing a dream through the Renaissance faires... there were weeks of sub-human living conditions, freezing cold nights and canned green beans at every meal for weeks, simple poverty. Yet, whenever all seemed lost I slipped this, my one luxury, this album out. I'd sit huddled in my blankets, the wind howling by, not a friend for a thousand miles and listen to track 8, Southern Jukebox Music, over and over. I'd listen to all of this album, and I'd begin to smile. My parents divorce, the death of my grandfather, my own failures and the cold, bitter days of January in the mountains are no longer enough to crush me. Not when I have music as my armour, my shield and my sword.
Even now, when my best friend and I fight, when my love and I fight, I need only to play this CD and all my troubles melt away.
Windham Hill has made my life better for the music they bring.
Life can't touch you when your days have music like this in them.

Thank you.

More sentimental than ever.......2002-08-02

When hearing this album, it's getting sentimental and lesser visible as we can see at Sampler 86 etc. Imagery is another representative character of WindHam Hill's music. But, thier music looks somewhat changed like the time has changed.
May not same as ever 'WindHam Hill Sampler' series. However, easier get to be familliar than ever before compared to 1980s'.
Anyway as a fan of WindHam Hill music, I still like this.

No.......2000-08-15

Idi Amin will die comfortably in bed of old age; Martin Luther King and Gandhi were shot dead; much of humanity is starving and unhappy, and there's nothing we can do to help; and Wyndham Hill release records of such unbelievable mediocrity that I cry myself to sleep at night because of it. I bought this entirely for the Penguin Cafe Orchestra contribution, but decided to listen to the rest. It's precisely the kind of thing that gives 'New Age' a bad name - sappy, inoffensive, empty and utterly false background music for faux-ethnic shops that sell Taiwanese-made wooden African masks and scented candles, for people who find proper classical music 'too edgy'.

Average customer rating: A beautiful find this was.

Sampler 96 - Windham Hill Torcuato Mariano , Phil Cunningham , Tim Story , Uman , Henry Adams Curtis , Nightnoise , Andy Narell , Wayne Horvitz , Jim Brickman , and Penguin Cafe Orchestra Manufacturer: Windham Hill ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000ET7PI2

Product Description

Sampler 96 - Windham Hill // 1. Last Look - Torcuato Mariano 2. When The Snow Melts - Phil Cunningham 3. Theme From In Search Of Angels - Tim Story 4. The White Spirit - Uman 5. Playground - Henry Adams Curtis 6. A Different Shore - Nightnoise 7. Jenny's Room - Andy Narell 8. Southern Jukebox Music - Penguin Cafe Orchestra 9. If You Believe - Jim Brickman 10. Brahms: Madchenlied, Op.85, No.3 - Wayne Horvitz 11. Prelude In C Minor From The Well-Tempered Clavier - Steve Erquiaga 12. Picture This - Jim Brickman 13. Rio Amazons - Oystein Sevag 14. Castille - Ray Obiedo

Customer Reviews:

A beautiful find this was........2006-06-07

"Windham Hill Sampler 1996" was a wonderful find that I purchased in the opening days and weeks of 1998 during a trip to Fredericksburg, Virginia. The CD almost perfectly captured the beauty and adventure of that wonderful trip now forever etched in my memory.

Onto the music itself, this is an astonishing collection of 14 tracks from selected artists on the Windham Hill label and focuses on the latest artists up to this point when it was released in 1996. Torcuato Mariano's "Last Look" I was familiar with for a long time when I got this and have it on his sophomore album of the same name. My favorite song however could very well be the mournful classic that is "When The Snow Melts" by Phil Cunningham. I was only 15 when I first listened to it but I almost was in tears when I was done listening to it. Even though it's a major note song, sometimes major note songs can have a far more somber feel than a minor note song and this song demonstrates that. My other favorite is the haunting "The White Spirit" by French brother/sister duo Uman with the sister's almost surreal vocals and the various exotic musical elements all weaved into one of the best New Age classics of the 1990s. What happened to this duo? I would've loved to have heard more albums after this. Other songs that stand out are "Jenny's Room" by Andy Narell.

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4. Across the Mountain
5. Africa Fete 3
6. Alma del Sur: Music of South America
7. Amazon
8. Beatles on Hammered Dulcimer
9. Behind the Light
10. Beyond the Invisible [CD-single]

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