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Corin Nelsen is a Grammy Award-winning recording engineer and music producer. [1] He is best known for his work with William Ackerman, the Grammy award-winning founder of Windham Hill Records, and as chief engineer at Ackerman's Imaginary Road Studios in Vermont.
Nelsen met William Ackerman in 1986 while working as a carpenter and building Ackerman's home in Vermont. [2] Nelsen quickly helped coordinate and became assistant engineer for the recording of two Windham Hill Records albums that Ackerman was producing, Eugene Friesen and Scott Cossu's Reunion and Malcolm Dalglish's Jogging the Memory .
In 1991 Ackerman and Nelsen started designing and building Imaginary Road Studios, [3] originally intended for work on Ackerman's own recordings and his spoken word label, Gang of Seven, formed after he sold his stake in Windham Hill. Together Ackerman and Nelsen developed an efficient process for editing various takes to create a truly optimized "best" basic track for an artist around which the music is built. [4]
In 2000 Nelsen also became the Director of I-Media for Websound and Rock River Communications mastering music for branded CDs and custom internet radio players for some of the world's top brands such as Volkswagen, Polo, Eddie Bauer, Pottery Barn, and more.
Nelsen won a Grammy for his role as Co-Producer and Engineer on Ackerman's album Returning , in the category Best New Age Album Year 2004.[ citation needed ]
Nelsen has also designed and built other recording studios of varying sizes and built acoustic treatments for several musician's home studios, including a studio for guitarist Damon Buxton. [5]
In 2007 Nelsen worked with Bruce Swedien (Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington) co-mixing tracks on Jeff Oster's album True including "Saturn Calling" which featured recordings from NASA's Cassini space mission.
In 2010 Nelsen founded SynchroSonic Productions, which expanded operations in 2012 [6] and his own studio in Bremen, ME.
Nelsen has also worked with the late Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Tony Levin, Damon Buxton, Dana Cunningham, Marc Enfroy, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Lawrence Blatt, and others. [7]
Michael Alden Hedges was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter.
The Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Philip Aaberg is an American pianist and composer. He gained international recognition through a series of successful piano recordings released on Windham Hill Records. Although classically trained, Aaberg incorporates classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock, and new music elements into his compositions and musical structures. Although best known for his solo piano work, he is most at home in the chamber jazz genre. His compositions are noted for their "rigorous keyboard technique, diverse influences, and colorful compositional style."
William Ackerman is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.
Alan Parsons is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
Eugene Friesen is an American cellist and composer.
In Search of the Turtle's Navel is the 1976 debut album by guitarist Will Ackerman. Some consider the album to be the start of new-age music. The album took Ackerman from his work as a carpenter and head of Windham Hill Builders to becoming a professional musician and executive of Windham Hill Records.
Eric Tingstad is an American record producer, musician, songwriter and composer. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Best known as a fingerstyle guitarist, Tingstad has performed, recorded, and produced alternative country, blues, americana, rock, smooth jazz, ambient, and New-age music. Tingstad frequently collaborates with woodwinds player Nancy Rumbel as Tingstad and Rumbel.
Russel Walder is an American jazz oboist and the founder of Nomad Soul Records.
Imaginary Roads is an album by the new-age guitarist William Ackerman, released in 1988.
Steven Miller is an American record producer and executive. He is best known for his association with Windham Hill Records, where his ambient sound helped create notable instrumental recordings such as Michael Hedges’ Aerial Boundaries, Mark Isham’s Vapor Drawings and George Winston’s December.
Aerial Boundaries is the second album by guitarist Michael Hedges released on the Windham Hill label in 1984. It was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Engineered Recording.
Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
Returning is a compilation album by William Ackerman, released in September 2004 through the record label Decca. In 2005, the album earned Ackerman the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Damon Buxton is an American fingerstyle acoustic guitarist and composer. His primary instrument is the six-string classical guitar. He uses silent spaces, open tunings, natural reverb, and double picking. His compositions draw on musical traditions of fingerstyle, classical, new age, and jazz. Buxton is a self-taught musician who began playing the guitar at age 21 and developed his trademark fingerpicking style. He currently lives in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area with his wife and two cats.
Flow is an American New Age music group consisting of pianist/vocalist Fiona Joy from Australia, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter and flugelhornist Jeff Oster, and guitarist Will Ackerman, all from the United States. The band's name is an anagram of the initials of their names.
Charles Moniz is a Canadian recording engineer who worked on Bruno Mars's studio albums Unorthodox Jukebox and 24K Magic. Alternatively, he recorded "All I Ask" for Adele's 2015 studio album 25. For his recordings with Mars and Adele, Moniz has won multiple Grammy Awards. Out of his seven Grammys, Moniz is a three-time winner of the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and two-time winner of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He has also received the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Outside of engineering, Moniz played for the Canadian hardcore band Grade and was the bass guitarist for Avril Lavigne from 2002 to 2007.
Jeff Oster is a Grammy-nominated American musician who specializes in trumpet and flugelhorn in the New Age music genre. He is a member of the four-piece band Flow. Oster's style has been described as "Miles Davis meets Pink Floyd." He is three-time winner of the Independent Music Awards and ten-time winner of the Zone Music Reporter Awards. He was featured on the Laura Sullivan's Grammy-winning album Love's River. Flow's debut album reached number 4 on the Billboard New Age Albums Chart in 2017.
Stephen Sedgwick is a British mix engineer best known for his work with Damon Albarn and Gorillaz. He is based at Studio 13 in West London.
Tom Eaton is a Grammy-nominated American multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and mastering engineer. He is known as the composer of multiple albums, and as a producer and engineer who works with Grammy Award-winner William Ackerman.
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