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srv-musikmaker · Post by **srv-musikmaker** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:08 pm

Thnx guys. Some pretty good suggestions there

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SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:23 pm

D.H. Miltz wrote:John Fahey (earlier stuff rather than later: Maybe Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes or The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death).

+1

And Leo Kottke.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:57 pm

Here is a bunch picked out of my own collection (I have more than 3.000 CDs of classic and peaceful music):

Steve Hackett:

Bay of Kings (1983)
Momentum (1988)
There are many sides to the night (1999)
A midsummer night's dream (1997, inspired by Sheakespeare)
Sketches of Satie (2000, the famous gymnopedies and Gnossiennes magistrally played at classic guitar with his brother John at the transverse flute)
Metamorpheus (2005, with a mythological inspiration) which is wonderful with transverse flutes (played by his brother John), double bass and two cellos, french horn, soft trompet, and violin.

Steve Howe:

Natural Timbre (2001)
Skyline (2002)

Bindu:

John Williams (the classic guitarist, not the movietrack composer):

Spanish Guitar Music (1990)
Romance of the Guitar (2000)
Bach: The Four Lute Suite (2001)
The Ultimate Guitar Collection (2007, 2 CD)

Paul Galbraith:

Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas (1998)

Jesse Cook:

The Ultimate (2005, 2 CD)

Marcel Dadi:

La Guitare à Dadi (essentially the first and the second which were both released in 1973 and followed later by two others, beware, the second was titled by joke "La Guitare à Dadi 3" instead of "La Guitare à Dadi 2" though it was really the second and not the third). These two albums are worldwide considered by all the fingerpicking lovers as two historic albums in the History of the folk style instrumental guitar.
Nashville Rendez-vous (2 CD pack. Beware, it gathers three previous albums included one which had the same title. This pack is one of my favorite guitars albums ever, if you read french here is a little review that I made years ago in the french Amazon, and if not, ask me if you want me to make you a little translation)
Guitar Legend (2 albums: one in 1989, one in 1991, both now gathered in a 2 CD pack with a big 130 pages booklet of tablatures)
Guitar Memories (1992)

Chet Atkins, 15 years after the death of Marcel Dadi, repeated that "Marcel was one of the five greatest world masters of the fingerpicking who have born on this planet". Sadly Marcel Dadi was one of the victims of the flight TWA 800 which exploded in july 1996 over the Atlantic Ocean.

Mark Knopfler:

Cal (1984)

Pushkar:

Inner Harvest (1986)
Ding (1989)
Blue flame (1991) is one that I don't like at all, it's an exception in the marvelous music of Pushkar
Silent Explosion (1991)

Norbert Kraft:

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Music for Solo Guitar (2000)

Govi:

Medwyn Goodall (guitars) and Scott Jasper:

Tribal nation (2006, ultra beautiful with amazing didgeridoo, and even more amazing ethnic african and indian percussions, indian and South African voices!)

Medwyn Goodall (guitars) and Terry Oldfield (one of the greatest new age flute players):

Om (2006)

I love ALL the albums of the flautist Terry Oldfield !, especially his album Zen and his "serie" xxx Spirit and he is Mike's brother, remember his wonderful flutes in his brother's first albums and notably in the chef-d'oeuvre Ommadawn.

And from Med Goodall playing alone (he is multi-instrumentist although his instrument of predilection is the acoustic guitar) the albums I prefer are Medicine Woman 1 to 4.

Mike Oldfield:

Guitars (1999)

Shastro:

Michael Hedges:

Aerial Boundaries (1984)
Beyond Boundaries (2001)

William Ackerman:

Sayama:

Yin Tao (1997, ultra beautiful ! In this euro-chino-japanese album the instruments are mainly 12 & 6 string acoustic guitars, shakuhachi, Guzhen, DiZi, bansuri, koto, cello, oboe, pianos, and discrete violins, tibetan bowls, chimes, and japanese percussions. Definitively one of my desert island collection in the style euro-chino-japanese with I Ching Symphony from Frank Steiner Jr.

Not a guitar but in the same family I love the Oud (the arabic ancestor of the lute, and played also in Greece and in the peaceful armenian musics with the duduk) and to really appreciate the pure cristalline beauty of this very old instrument you should listen the wonderful and very peaceful album Foundou de Bechar (1994) by Alla (if you read french, see these two reviews...).

If you really love peaceful guitar works, you should also consider these instruments:
the Pipa of China, the medieval Lute (mainly the pieces of John Dowland and of Ennemond Gaultier also known as Le Vieux Gaultier), the Sarod of India, the Saz of Turkey, the Baglama of Greece (don't confuse with the baglama of Turkey, it's not the same instrument), all the zithers (the classic zither but also the Kantele of Finland, the GuQin and the GuZheng of China, the Koto of Japan, the Ðàn Tranh of Vietnam...) Many of these instruments are used not only in traditional tunes of people around the world but also in modern peaceful musics, new age, jazz, etc.

And to finish, here are some wonderful pieces of Medieval Lute that are also very, very often played on classic guitar but I prefer them played with their original instrument... the medieval lute:

Nigel North:

Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009, 4 CD)

Anthony Rooley:

John Dowland: The Collected Works (2007, a box of 12 amazing CDs !)

All these links are on Amazon.co.uk but you can change the .co.uk to a .com or .de or .fr or whatever you want. And also...I'm not married with Amazon. Simply it is the place where I was quite sure to find all the references that I needed to suggest these CDs that I own among my very big collection.

And throw an eye (and an ear) to this little comment I made some weeks ago about the excellent free VSTi called Richman by Krakli...

Best acoustic guitar albums (without vocals) ?