The Indie Acoustic Project Announces Best CDs of 2012 Awards

The Indie Acoustic Project (IAP) has announced the winners of the IAP “Best CDs of 2012” Awards. The winners in each of 9 categories were selected from among the 3 finalists in each category.

“It is the position of the IAP that all of the 27 CDs selected as finalists were in fact the 27 Best CDs of 2012,” said John Sirkis of IAP. “Accordingly, it was extremely difficult to determine the “winner” for each category, as all of the finalist CDs were outstanding in their own rights. But, since our award process is (loosely) modeled on the Oscar and Grammy Awards, a winner is expected to be chosen. Picking a winner also makes it easier to publicize the musicians: most publications are more likely to make note of CDs winning an award than they are to write an article announcing all 27 finalists.”

Winners:

Acoustic Ensemble

Whitehorse – The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss (Six Shooter)

Instrumental

The Olllam – The Olllam (Compass)

Lyrics

Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around (Blue Rock)

Multi-Genre

Surkalen – Essence de Lumiere (Self-Produced)

Progressive Edge

Red Cardell – Falling in Love (Keltia)

Rock

Elin Furubotn – Heilt Nye Vei (Ozella)

Roots

Infamous Stringdusters – Silver Sky (High Country / Sci Fidelity)

Singer-Songwriter

This category had a tie, the first in IAP history

Antje Duvekot – New Siberia (Self-Produced)

and

Maia Sharp – Change the Ending (Blix Street)

World Music

Ramzi Aburedwan – Reflections of Palestine (Riverboat/World Music Network)

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