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Distance
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Price: $12.05
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0031257149020
Label: All Saints
Manufacturer: All Saints
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: All Saints
Release Date: 2006-03-14
Studio: All Saints
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Customer reviews of Distance
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Customer Rating:  
Summary: Calm and Lush
Comment: I believe I had a blind preconcieved notion of what this album would be like. It's a little hardcore for my soft ambient listening self. I think I expected more landscape, less structure and beats in the tracks. That being said; it's not harshness, a calm disc.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's like sex for your ears. Only better.
Comment: This album deserves no less a rating than 5 stars. If you're being tempted by the chilled sounds of ambient music, look no further than Distance. It could very well be the new standard in ambient music.
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Summary: Excellent ambient work
Comment: According to the dotca.co.uk Web site, "Distance" was conceived as a sort of soundtrack to a nighttime journey through an urban environment in the safe isolation of an automobile. The music is soft and the arrangements are sparse. The instrumentation is mostly guitar and electronic keyboards, other than the saxophone on the final track "A Temporary Life." The music is built on the typical ambient foundations - repeated loops, washes of sound, and so forth.
The appropriately named opening track "Sleepless" is deceptively gentle, but as you listen more closely you realize that beneath the calm surface there is also a restless, anxious edge to the track. "Distance" strikes a balance between sustaining a mood and employing melodies. A good example of this is "These European Cites." At first it seems to be nothing more than a gentle loop with synthesizer swells, but halfway through a beautiful melody (played on a guitar) is added.
Listening to Distance is pure pleasure. It would be hard to pick a favorite track because the effect of each track is cumulative. As for comparisons (always a risky business), fans of Brian Eno (it's released on his All Saints label) and Harold Budd would probably find Marconi Union enjoyable as well.
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Summary: Really grew on me
Comment: When I first got this, I dimissed it as minimalist noodling. Now, weeks later, it is one of my favorite selections on my ipod. This grows on you. You can't bring any preconceptions to it and you have to let it work its magic on you. Try it as background when you are driving during rush hour, try it with some good headphones, try it when you want to chill out. This is understated, yes, but put together with skill and intelligence. Very good, quiet ambient pieces.
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Summary: re: Celestial Melodies Great Work Album
Comment: This album resonates with beauty... the music provides you with a very thought provoking journey. If you want to transcend your current time and place, just put this album on and you will be transported by the delicate yet etheral melodies.. it is an album with tremendous beauty. I cannot recommend a album more, it relaxes me and gives me insight into what I am doing. Absolutely fantastic album to listen to while at work...
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Editorial Reviews:
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Marconi Union is a reclusive electronic duo from Manchester, England. Their sound has been described as "a post rock cinematic orchestra." Distance, their first U.S. release, is unique, individual and timeless, fusing acoustic sounds, strings and pianos with electronica, post-rock guitars and even occasional nods towards jazz and dub. Described by the band as "a soundtrack to a film that has not yet been made," listening to Distance evokes the feeling of being driven silently around an unknown city at night, observing the activity and life of the urban sprawl in safety and isolation.
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