Havent heard of the stuff you mention but it seems to be something for me. Do you know of any listenable samples of the muzikk.

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Well, with google I guess you'll be able to find some more. But beware: these are all samples of the work Shadowfax did for Windham Hill, which is quite different from the Passport-version of Watercourse Way.
This site has some interesting info, but it looks like they ignore the difference between the two Watercourse Way-version

Yes, I have Watercourse Way. Good stuff! I have the Passport and the Windham Hill releases and also prefer the rawer sound of the original. :-).

When the Windham Hill-version was released I had to give it a listen, but from what I can remember, it had quite less to do with the original. Of course this may also be caused by the better/warmer sound from the LP compared with the cold, digital sound from the CD (there are some internet-sites that have compared the two versions). But anyway, I was short of money in those days so I didn't buy it. After that I thought it would be interesting to have it on CD anyway, but from that moment on I couldn't find it anywhere and even on internet it's hard to find the Windham-CD these days. When I visited the States in 2000 to see Happy The Man at Nearfest I also visited quite some record-shops in Philadelphia and guess what: I found it. I paid the price and waited for the man who would bring the CD from behind the store. But it wasn't there!! At least not on the place it should be. So still no Windham-version for me. I did however find a bootleg-CD from the original at Syn-Phonic... Sounds quite good.

The song "Ghostbird" has a light touch of HTM I think and "Song for my brother" did strongly remind me of The Muse Awakens!!!

"A Song For My Brother" is the closing piece from Watercourse Way and by far my favourite. It's their most symphonic song I heard from them. Beautiful, emotional guitarballad, with heavy use of the Chamberlin (a pre-Mellotron keyboard that also used tapes).

There's also a live-recording from 1978 released on the "famous" Tachika-label. It hasn't much in common with the first album though, the sound being quite rough, with a lot of long improvisations.

Here's a version of A Song For My Brother: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v5BfP2iqow&feature=artist

First half of the song is very similar to Mahavishnu Orchestra. I like the atmosphere.

Recently I finally found the Windham Hill-version for a very reasonable price. Listening to in now the difference between both versions are less striking, although the WH-version still sounds slightly more polished, less rough. But I'm glad I have it. These days more and more people sell their CDs because they have downloaded their stuff, so for us collectors this is a nice way to finally score some collectables.

Recently I bought a 5-CD boxset from the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I never really got into that band, mainly because of the guitar-style from McLaughlin, which is a bit to rough for me. But listening to these old albums I realized that MO was indeed a big influence on Shadowfax.
Back to HTM: I also bought Shadowfax only album made for Private Music, called The Odd Get Even (1990). Songs like Oasis and Sujata sound as if Kit Watkins and HTM must have been in the collection of these players. Fine album! After reading the book "A Pause In The Rain : A Memoir Of Chuck Greenberg And Music Pioneers Shadowfax" by Joy Greenberg (indeed, Chuck's wife) I think I'll broaden my Shadowfax-collection, because that was an intrigueing read.

I can hear some Jan Hammer influences in Kit's playing. I believe HTM listened to Mahavishnu back in the days.