Sounds of the Season Live from Will Ackerman and Friends and the California Guitar Trio on a Sonic Seasonings Classic from Echoes.
Imaginary Road Studios
Will Ackerman & Friends and the California Guitar Trio play seasonal songs old and new.
Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster, Jill Haley, David Cullen, Kori Linae Carothers, Scarlet Rivera
In 2009, on a chilly day deep in the hills of southern Vermont, a group of musicians gathered at Will Ackerman’s Imaginary Road Studios to create the sound of Sonic Seasonings. Will Ackerman is best known as the founder of Windham Hill Records. He’s also a fingerstyle guitar player. Will not only founded Windham Hill Records, he’s also released several beautiful acoustic guitar albums over the years and won a Grammy for one of them. Will gathered a bunch of musicians in his studio near Brattleboro, Vermont to play songs for the season. They included pianist Kori Linae Carothers, the duo of Jill Haley and David Cullen, trumpeter Jeff Oster and Violinist Scarlet Rivera. Over the course of 2 days, Will Ackerman and friends performed music for the Holiday season both traditional and new.
California Guitar Trio: Hideo Moriya, Paul Richards, Bert Lams
We’ll hear that and a 2006 Sonic Seasonings performance from The California Guitar Trio. In that year the trio consisted of three students of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft and The League of Crafty Guitarists. Hailing from Japan, America and Belgium, these string pickers are as likely to play the surf hit “Pipeline” as a Bach fugue, or original songs that reveal elements of baroque
counterpoint and African cross-picking. In 2006, they came into the Echoes living room to play a set of seasonal songs, but not your usual songs.