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Track Listings
| 1. An Accidental Memory |
| 2. Genius And The Thieves |
| 3. Perfect Neglect In A Field Of Statues |
| 4. Nepenthe |
| 5. In A Sense |
| 6. The Well-Meaning Professor |
| 7. An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death |
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Not bad, but not great.
Jun 13 2008
Format:Audio CD
I had heard another of Eluvium's songs on Radio Paradise, and on a chance ordered this album (which actually did NOT have the song I heard on it). It's mostly a piano mix, similar to Philip Glass but without the monotony. My main gripe is that it clocks in at under a half hour of entertainment (26'26"), with nothing that really stands out.
soundtrack to your transcendence
May 10 2004
Format:Audio CD
This album is nothing short of awe inpiring bliss. Upon opening the plastic and peeling the seal off, the magic starts. The artwork is stark and beautiful. Very Tim Burton-esque. The listening experience is breathtaking. It is a half hour of the most beautiful piano peices ever composed. This album will be the soundtrack for many experiences in my life. Experience this masterpiece.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
soundtrack to your transcendence
May 10 2004
Format:Audio CD
This album is nothing short of awe inpiring bliss. Upon opening the plastic and peeling the seal off, the magic starts. The artwork is stark and beautiful. Very Tim Burton-esque. The listening experience is breathtaking. It is a half hour of the most beautiful piano peices ever composed. This album will be the soundtrack for many experiences in my life. Experience this masterpiece.
I've listened to this so many times, yet it is still beautiful...
May 10 2009
Format:Audio CD
I was sold immediately after hearing 30-second clips of a few songs. Since then, I must have listened to this CD hundreds of times. The sounds are simple, they repeat, and it sounds very lo-fi (In fact, it was recorded in less than two hours using but a single microphone. No post-production of any kind was used; it is more or less live music). The more familiar these tunes become, the more I grow to love them. It is as if they have become mine, part of me.
It's like the soundtrack to a wonderful, bittersweet movie. So beautiful.
It's like the soundtrack to a wonderful, bittersweet movie. So beautiful.
Memorable
Aug 1 2008
Format:Audio CD
As another reviewer suggested, I recommend listening to this if you're a fan of piano or ambient music. It is ambient music played on the piano: leitmotifs are used with varying amounts of focus and repetition, so that the mind is free to wander during the less focused parts, then a repetition happens, drawing the listener into a semifocused trance. It's rather beautiful for this ambient effect, because the beginning of the leitmotif recalls the comfort and peacefulness of the whole song. The music also recalls somehow memories -- perhaps due to the keying, it feels nostalgic.
The faults are that the recording sounds more muffled than it should, and the notes are too discordant and overlapping throughout, leaving one always with the feeling that the conflicting notes will clear up, leaving peace, but instead the awkward tension continues. It's however still a an interesting artwork, because the melodies stay with one, if one can get past these difficulties.
I give it four stars because I like the novelty of using classical methods to play ambient music, the compositions are interesting though of course spare, and the issues are cosmetic while the musical ideas are strong.
Is the title a reordering of the phrase "A memory in the case of accidental death?" Is it an allusion to the desire of artists to be immortalized by their music, to encode memories in their works and live on?
The faults are that the recording sounds more muffled than it should, and the notes are too discordant and overlapping throughout, leaving one always with the feeling that the conflicting notes will clear up, leaving peace, but instead the awkward tension continues. It's however still a an interesting artwork, because the melodies stay with one, if one can get past these difficulties.
I give it four stars because I like the novelty of using classical methods to play ambient music, the compositions are interesting though of course spare, and the issues are cosmetic while the musical ideas are strong.
Is the title a reordering of the phrase "A memory in the case of accidental death?" Is it an allusion to the desire of artists to be immortalized by their music, to encode memories in their works and live on?
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