Acoustic Alchemy
Starting out as a partnership between guitarists Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael
in the early 1980s, the duo created in-flight background music for Virgin
Airlines before recruiting a team of musicians to experiment with all manner of
styles and sounds on their debut album Red Dust and Spanish Lace (1987). Their
delicate, serene, instrumental melodies included blues, folk, Latin and
classical influences, and they even stretched to "Chinese reggae" on
breakthrough single Mr. Chow, before they came to wider attention when their
track Natural Elements was used as the theme to BBC TV s...
