White Winds
by Andreas Vollenweider
- Type: Album
- Released: 1984
- Label: CBS
- Country: Switzerland
- Length: 36:45
- Community rating: 3.67/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Featuring his signature electro-acoustic harp, Andreas Vollenweider recorded 'White Winds' as an immersive, instrumental journey drawing from global musical traditions. The record achieved immense international popularity, cementing Vollenweider as a central figure in the mid-80s instrumental and new age music markets.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, complex, melodic, ambient, gentle, piano, atmospheric
Tracklist
- The White Winds / The White Boat (First View) (1:50)
- Hall of the Stairs / Hall of the Mosaics (Meeting You) (5:04)
- The Glass Hall (Choose the Crystal) / The Play of the Five Balls / The Five Planets / Canopy Choir (7:37)
- The Woman and the Stone (4:28)
- The Stone (Close Up) (3:02)
- Phases of the Three Moons (2:44)
- Flight Feet and Root Hands (3:37)
- Brothership (3:27)
- Sisterseed (1:24)
- Trilogy : At the White Magic Gardens / The White Winds (3:27)
Credits
- Thomas M眉ller - artwork [front cover special effects assistant]
- Cornelius De Fries - artwork [front cover special effects]
- Patrick Demenga - cello [embracing the violoncello]
- Walter Keiser - drums [drumming out the axis of time]
- Rico Sonderegger - lacquer cut by
- Pedro Haldemann - performer [rhythmanatomic acousticolours, taebrat, dajang, drone tubes, drone boards, tajiah, so-na, makamas, tadji-ben, serpent, naii, p鈥檃i-kou, ta-kou], lute [moon], strings [san-h'sien, ehr-hu], harp [gothic, wind], flute [fish, moon, snare, pan], timbales [timbal], surdo, gong [glass], bells [glass, water, carillon], percussion [metal anklong, bamboo anklong], drums [water], wind chimes
- B眉di Siebert - performer [wind in instruments]
- Elena Ledda - voice [of the isle of the voice]
- Andreas Vollenweider - Primary Artist