William Ackerman – Passage (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1981

Passage is an LP by William Ackerman from 1981 released on the Windham Hill Records label.

About this album

Passage is a quietly influential acoustic album that helped define the early Windham Hill sound. Released in 1981 by guitarist William Ackerman, it presents his fingerpicked, open-voiced style in a focused, intimate setting that sits between jazz, folk and the emerging New Age movement. The album’s calm pacing and melodic restraint gave that scene much of its aesthetic identity, showing how solo guitar could feel both reflective and compositionally precise. With pieces such as The Bricklayer’s Beautiful Daughter and Remedios, Ackerman built a reputation as one of the style’s key early voices and a major figure in instrumental music.

Genre: Pop & Rock