Artist: Wayne Gratz
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
A Place Without Noise
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Island Sanctuary
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Somewhere In Time
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
From Me To You: Love Songs Of Lennon and Mccartney
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
A Gift Of The Sea
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Follow Me Home
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Panorama
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Reminiscence
Year: 1989
Tracks: 13
For much of the 1990s, pianist Wayne Gratz delivered one refined new age-inflected, smooth pianoforte album after another, each with a different temper and concomitant musical theme. Gratz's presence on the Narada roll gave him substantial equity in footing of list recognition, helping him become one of the more recognized and best-selling artists working within his niche. Critics slammed him for existence less inspired than insipid and bitterly reproached his accessible, mass market glide slope. The artist pink-slipped such criticism and continued releasing albums at a prolific rate -- this being most discernible in 1997, when he cranked out four-spot LPs. Gratz always focussed on a especially appealing motif -- for deterrent example, some albums were interpretations of popular medicine, others odes to particular locales. While the pianist often focused his efforts on composition and playing both the piano and synthesizers, he would as well collaborate with a variety show of musicians for each album, infusing eclectic sounds and styles into his accessible approaching.
