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Filmmakers Seeking Funds for Windham Hill Documentary

- $47K of $56.5K raised thus far

Windham Hill Records is due for a documentary.

And if director Tal Skloot can raise $56,500 by Aug. 2, “A Quiet Revolution: The Story of Windham Hill Records” will be made.

Established as a blowback against disco and the frenetic pace of life in the 1970s and home to such artists as Michael Hedges, George Winston, Darol Anger, Liz Story and others, the label released music that “allowed for a sense of introspection, contemplation and harmony,” Skloot said in a statement.

Or as mandolinist and Windham Hill recording artist Mike Marshall put it: “Sometimes, a whisper is the greatest way to get somebody’s attention,”

Filmmakers plan to use modern interviews, archival footage and recordings and fan testimonials to explore the label’s genesis and influence.

“We were a definition,” label founder Will Ackerman says in the trailer for the in-the-works film. “People called it ‘Windham Hill music.’ So the name became a genre.”

The Kickstarter campaign for “Quiet Revolution” had raised $47,000 as Sound Bites went to press.