Showing posts with label New Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Age. Show all posts

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Jürgen Müller - Science Of The Sea [MP3][320]

Science Of The Sea

Label: Digitalis Recordings
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1982 (Remastered 2011)
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Age, Experimental, Ambient









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Let me have a try to change your day. Download this album, close your eye, put in the first track and let it go. Forget your bad feelings, your pending to-dos, your worries, and let it all go. Let the ocean take it. Let the wind blow you away today, open your window and see how wonderful the world is. Look at it carefully.

Maybe this will change your day.

Ripped from pure FLAC into MP3 320kbps.

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In 1979, Jürgen Müller, a self-taught amateur musician studying oceanic science at the University of Kiel, travelled with a film crew to document a mission testing sea-water toxicity a few kilometres offshore in the North Sea. As ever, necessity was the mother of invention, and the experience proved so memorable that he was impelled to create a soundtrack to the footage and his own recollections using some electronic equipment borrowed from friends and a local school.

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A wonderful album full of fragile beauty and a delicate sense of melancholy and longing. Liz Harris has a rare talent for evoking these emotions in the most vaporous, subtle way, without ever gliding into dull and obvious territory. Next to her timeless classic "Cover the windows and the walls", this is her most accomplished and heartfelt work. A must for all those who relish peaceful solitude and introspective, emotive journeys.

Comment by chris.topp




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Saturday, October 08, 2011

Oren Lavie - The Opposite Side of the Sea [MP3][320]

The Opposite Side of the Sea
Label: A Quarter Past Wonderful
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Folk, Indie
Style: New Age, Vocal










This is one of my favorite albums ever. It's sweet, easy-listening, peaceful. It exercises your brain for you to become a better person inside and out. It's like a therapy. This is one of a really few albums that create images on your brain, it's like reading a book.
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Yes, another discovery through TV ad music: Oren Lavie, one of the coolest, most talented but understated artists on the indie scene. No lack of writing talent here - there's poetry in every lyric, not to mention the throaty, intimate (maybe even sexy?) delivery of those words into silky, very male, odes of expression. Rounding out the package are playful and original musical arrangements of the folk/rock genre that keep your ears at attention no matter how relaxing the voice. Luckily, the good taste and strong effort is sustained throughout the album - filler material is just not part of this opus.

A very edgy, forward use of Lavie's music, but oh how lovingly poetic in a boomer father-daughter kind of way, is in a car ad promoting safety throughout the young life of said daughter. You can find the video of the Chevy Malibu commercial at YouTube, featuring a part of the "Her Morning Elegance" track (slightly modified). You can see it here.

The most succinct summary of Oren Lavie's bio is at Artistdirect (below); the funniest is the self-written one at Myspace; the most extensive, at tuition-music. His flash-based official site (orenlavie.com) is very complete and quite original in that it opens its own browser window with a virtual booklet like you find in the CD case. You even hear the paper page turning when you drag the corner of a page with the mouse pointer.

Review by QuietGeek

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