Opening of Doors

William Ackerman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• ASIN: B000000NJ5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,640 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will Ackerman Creates a Spiritual Haven, April 12, 1999

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This review is from: Opening of Doors (Audio CD)

Opening Doors takes you on a soft deep journey to places in the heart, it's sunlight escaping through lace curtains on a breeze. It's coming home in a warm way. I play this CD every day at work and I love it more each time.A gift of life. Will Ackerman has created beauty. What a gift.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is my favorite Will Ackerman, November 19, 2006

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Russell E. Martin (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opening of Doors (Audio CD)

I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. This was my first Will Ackerman album and it remains my favorite. I like the electric guitar and all of the other instruments that accompany his playing on this one.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Inferior Ackerman, May 3, 2003

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Paul A. Scofield (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opening of Doors (Audio CD)

The music fan from Ithaca's got it right. I've got all but the first and most recent of Ackerman's cds, and this is the weakest of the lot (8 cds). Somewhat surprising, perhaps, since it comes on the heels of Imaginary Roads and Conferring with the Moon, and followed by The Sound of Wind Driven Rain- all outstanding. On this cd, it seems that Ackerman tried to experiment with adding electric guitars on some tracks- which I found unlistenable (a word which rarely applies to his entire output). Also, even some of the quiet, solo guitar tracks seem uninspired when compared to those on, say, The Sound of Wind Driven Rain. Consider often overlooked releases such as 'Passage' (1981)(his last of the early works based in folk guitar, though I like 'Childhood and Memory' even more), or 'Past Light' ('83)(his first of the 'new age' sound- Imaginary Roads and Conferring w/the Moon are his two major releases during this phase, and sound very similar). Finally, I consider 'The Sound of Wind Driven Rain' to be a sort of return to his early solo acoustic guitar recordings. All of this to say that this is, in my opinion, 'for completists only.'