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Structures from Silence
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 6170260119294
Format: Enhanced
Label: Projekt Records
Manufacturer: Projekt Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Projekt Records
Release Date: 2001-07-10
Studio: Projekt Records
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Customer reviews of Structures from Silence
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Summary: Planeterium-premier
Comment: Early ambient masterwork is an auditory space odyssey which may lack some of the underlying subtleties that made similar artists compelling but remains warmly engaging and surprisingly undated even at its most monotonous.
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Summary: relaxing music
Comment: I had the old cassette and wanted a CD. It has been around for a long time and it is one of my favorites as it seems to put me in a trance.
Good music to help the mind quiet the chatter.
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Summary: Tender ~ Peaceful ~ Timeless
Comment: There's not much that can be said about this release.
It's beauty, on beauty, on beauty.
I have never felt so loving, tender and quiescent as when listening to this perfect album.
Throw away your expectations - one has to be daring to find real beauty in the world. Retreating into a forest with pre-conceived ideas of how the trees should look will only result in disappointment. Offering no resistance, 'just going with it', the trees reveal their secret beauty. So it is with music like STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE.
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Summary: Steve Roach moves with you
Comment: Despite being one of Roach's oldest works, this album stands out as timelessly fresh, listenable and intense. These pieces have a focus and fluid progression often missing from Roach's work... rather than hanging in the air for extended durations in disorienting stupor (something Steve's music often does these days, seemingly intentionally), this music is filled with youthful persistence. It is a powerful statement against lazy hopelessness, it screams out against apathy in airy violet blue beauty. Nowhere in ambient music are the extended track lengths more justified than here, and never has ambient music had this sort of insistent energy. The attitude of this music will rub off on you, leaving you contemplative and calm but deeply empowered.
There is emotional clarity and sobriety here that Steve rarely, if ever, embraces anymore. There are watery, beautiful synth textures, which may not be as perfectly produced as his recent work, but hardly sound dated or cheesy. There is real melody, perfectly placed. Each new idea in each piece is introduced exactly when needed.
By comparison, similar works in Roach's catalog, such as "Quiet Music" (or even "Dreamtime Return", although that one still belongs in the category of "brilliant") are overlong and emotionally one dimensional. "Structures From Silence" says so much with so little. It is indeed an ambient masterpiece. 5 stars.
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Summary: Cathedrals of Beauty from pure Silence.
Comment: Widely considered to be his first true masterpiece, 1984's "Structures From Silence" is among the most groundbreaking New Age albums of the 1980s, and arguably of all time. The sounds that permiate throughout the three pieces were like nothing ever heard before at the time of it's release. Though only three tracks total, each track is of an epic length that progresses through several stages that you'll hardly realize it. The entire album is absolutely stunning from start to finish. The faint flickers of the opening track introduce us to theraputic bliss for a grand 17 minutes. The closing title track is a near 30-minute trip with extremly repetitive yet hauntingly gorgeous ambient keybaords and a unique chord structure and a very innovative sound for the early 1980s.
The original album cover featured 3-D shapes but the album went out of print for a while. However, thanks in part to the Projeck record label, this marvelous masterpiece has seen it's second incarnation with remastered sound quality and beautiful new artwork which actually perfectly matches the mood of the CD. hIGHLY RECommended!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Owing a healthy debt to European synthesists like Klaus Shulze and Tangerine Dream, Structures from Silence is perhaps the best of Roach's early outings. Though it lacks the organic feel of later albums like Dreamtime Return or Well of Souls, it exploits sounds and compositional techniques that Roach would continue to refine: flowing sheets of near-choral synth sound; long, slow melodies drawn out of overtones and partials; implied rhythms built from pulses of electronic tone. Made up of only three pieces, including the epic 29-minute title track, Silence found an audience among meditators and musical therapists; no wonder, since its reflective properties echo what Roach has called the music's essence: "What [you feel] when it ends, a returning to the silence." --James Rotondi
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