Saturday, 26 April 2008
Acoustic Alchemy
Artist: Acoustic Alchemy
Genre(s):
Jazz
Instrumental
Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
New Age
Discography:
This Way
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
American/English
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Radio Contact
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Aart
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The New Edge
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
The Beautiful Game
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Positive Thinking
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Arcanum
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
The New Edge
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Back On The Case
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Reference Point
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Blue Chip
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Natural Elements
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Red Dust and Spanish Lace
Year: 1987
Tracks: 9
Early Alchemy
Year: 1982
Tracks: 14
Sounds Of St. Lucia (Live)
Year:
Tracks: 12
During the late '80s and '90s, Nick Beatrice Webb and Greg Hoagy Carmichael produced a series of mellow albums classified ad as adult coeval music, though the guitarists embrace the reach out of jazz and newfangled age as well. Both grew up in England during the '60s hearing to pop/rock, though Sidney James Webb studied jazz guitar at Leeds College of Music patch Hoagy Carmichael focussed on classical guitar at the Greater London College of Music. Originally formed by First Baron Passfield and Neil Simon Jesse James, Acoustic Alchemy later became Webb and Hoagland Howard Carmichael; the duette ab initio worked for Virgo the Virgin Airlines, providing on the wing medicine on transatlantic trips. Signed to MCA in the mid-'80s, Acoustic Interpersonal chemistry released its debut album, Redness Dust & Spanish Lace, in 1987. After deuce subsequent releases, the duet signed with GRP in 1990. Their bit GRP album, Point of reference work Point, was subject case for a Grammy Prize. Positive Mentation followed in 1998 in the awake of Webb's February 6 cancer-related demise; their jazz content was quite small, only if Acoustic Alchemy's albums systematically charted number unrivaled on the adult modern-day charts. By 2000, Hoagland Howard Carmichael unveiled a revamped Acoustic Chemistry that included longtime sidemen care bassist Frank Felix, guitarists Toilet Talcott Parsons and Miles Gilderdale, and keyboardist Terry cloth Disley, as well as newly members such as keyboardist Tony White. That year's The Beautiful Game was the newly lineup's first discharge. AArt followed in 2001 and proved to be the group's biggest squish, landing them another Grammy nominating address that twelvemonth. Empowered by that success, the band continued to spell and, when they had meter, track record book. The resulting deuce albums, 2003's Radiocommunication Contact and 2005's American/English (soundless on Higher Octave), farther coagulated the fresh card and ushered in the spillage of the concert/documentary Videodisc Charles Herbert Best Kept Secret in 2006. 2007 establish Acoustic Alchemy collaborating with Higher Octave labelmates Shoot down to the