Music to Sell Your House By

David Berthy Posts:

I am attempting to sell my house in anticipation of my upcoming move to San Francisco. Marketing your home is much more complicated than it was a few years ago, and it is now a requisite to create an online virtual tour for potential buyers. I watched a few of these tours to get the idea. They're pretty much what you expect: successive shots of mirthlessly clean rooms suspiciously free of clutter. What stands out as odd is the music that accompanies them. I was trying to describe it to Mike over drinks the other night, who immediately asked if it was like something on Windam Hill, the new-age superlabel that, from 1980 to 1987 or so, made George Winston's piano the soundtrack of choice for leaf-peeping excursions in Swedish automobiles. The music accompanying the virtual tours isn't quite like that. It's got more of a Vangelis feel, like the soundtrack to a sex scene in a seventies science fiction movie.

You can listen to the yourself here:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/homes-for-sale-chicago-il-janet-crabb/273800085.

The discussion naturally moved to what type of music would be appropriate accompaniment. My choice would be John Fahey's, "Requiem for John Hurt," the first track from his 1967 album Requia. It kind of sounds like something on Windam Hill.


REQUIEM FOR JOHN HURT