Acoustic Garden

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Acoustic Garden
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 13, 2002
RecordedApril 2002
Genre Chamber jazz, new age, neoclassical new age
Length51:17
Label Narada Records
Tingstad and Rumbel chronology
A Dream and a Wish: An Offering of Children's Classics
(2002)
Acoustic Garden
(2002)
Comfort and Joy
(2004)

Acoustic Garden is a studio album by American musicians Tingstad and Rumbel, released on August 13, 2002 by Narada Records and recorded in April 2002. It received the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album at the 45th Grammy Awards in 2003. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Acoustic Garden" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 4:19
  2. "Blue Martini" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:36
  3. "Shamrock" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:55
  4. "Deep in My Soul" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:37
  5. "Empire Builder" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:56
  6. "Clear Moon, Quiet Winds" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:43
  7. "Prairie Schooner" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 4:07
  8. "Les Jardins de Nohant" (Rumbel) – 4:00
  9. "Havana" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 3:40
  10. "San Antonio" (Rumbel) – 4:05
  11. "Drayton Hall" (Rumbel) – 3:53
  12. "Windows on the World" (Rumbel, Tingstad) – 4:40
  13. "Talk of Angels" (Tingstad) – 3:09

Personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard Top New Age Albums [3] 11

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