Music CD - Ulrich Schnauss: Far Away Trains Passing By

	Music CD: Far Away Trains Passing By Artist: Ulrich Schnauss List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $11.54 Your Save: $ 4.44 ( 28% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Domino
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Tracks: 1. Knuddlemaus 2. Between Us and Them 3. Passing By 4. Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn 5. Nobody's Home 6. Molfsee
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801390004520 Label: Domino Manufacturer: Domino Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Domino Release Date: 2005-11-01 Studio: Domino
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not very impressed! Comment: I bought this CD because of all the great reviews. You people need to get out more often! Customer Rating: Summary: Sighhhhh... Comment: ...kick back, mellow out and listen to Schnauss. His simplistic compositions offer just the right amount of originality to be enjoyed either with full attention or as backround music. 'Love this guy! Customer Rating: Summary: Subtly majestic, if a little monotonous. Comment: Full of wonderfully melancholy and atmospheric textures; lacks the dull synthetic drone of "space music". The cool strings and melodies kind of drift over warm, crunchy beats and basslines. It's the kind of thing you put on while you're working or, yes, driving. While the music is beautiful, it inevitably draws comparisons to folks who have done the same thing with a little more thoughtfulness, which is why I've rated this a 4-star album. If you find more than one or two of Schnauss's drum loops original, I'll eat my hat. Most of the variation within the songs is found in adding and removing layers of melody and texture, and while Schnauss is very, very good at it, the music just lacks the musical variety of artists like, say, the Boards of Canada, who use much more original beats and clearly spend a lot more time on the details. But the fact that there's better music to be had doesn't make this a bad disc. It's one of my favorite buys of the year, and it'll enjoy many a listen in my office (heck, it's going right now). Recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: New perspective on "electronic" Comment: It' important for you to know that I am most certainly not a musical buff. I'm an average Josey-on-the-street who just enjoys finding beautiful music in lots of different genres. For the most part, I've found electronic music either numbingly repetitious (read "boring") or inaccessible because it seemed too focused on pushing the boundaries of what could be considered musical. From the first notes issuing forth in compelling, bell-like tones that remind me of Christmas, I was drawn-in, wanting more. I was worried that the first lovely compositions would give way to the dreaded, over-the edge junk that I imagine is designed to be intellectually challenging and make you feel superior for sticking with it. It never happened. The music is eminantly listen-able, with beautifully constructed scores that actually go somewhere --mysterious, yes, new -- but in a joyful ride that is simultaneously relaxing and exhilarating. I urge you to take this journey: if you're anything like me, you'll be so grateful for stumbling across this CD. Customer Rating: Summary: Ulrich is a musical genius Comment: Fantastic music, "Wherever you are" gets you through tunnels of time. For someone romantic at heart who likes electronic music this is a must have musical jewel. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist who is influenced by forebears like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk--but unlike retro-space artists, he doesn't sound like he just emerged from their dusty studios after being marooned there for 30 years. Instead, his synthesizers bristle with contemporary electro-rhythms, a bit of New Wave romanticism, and melodies you want to last forever. Schnauss has perfected a balance between quiet yearning and joyful heroism in his music, with sweeping major-chord progressions that are triumphal without being ostentatious, expansive without being pompous. For someone who is so rhythm-centered with crackling snares and electro-glitches, it's ultimately the melodies that draw you in, turned on glistening, bell-like timbres and space-organ sustains. Far Away Trains Passing By is actually his first album, released in Europe in 2001, but it's been out of print and is being issued in the United States for the first time. The reissue comes with a bonus CD that includes six pieces pulled from various Schnauss side projects and tracks that didn't make the original album. Far Away Trains Passing By is electronica with a melancholy soul, and it has lost nothing in the intervening years. --John Diliberto