Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
Страна: France
Жанр: Ambient
Год выпуска: 2003
Формат: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 75:40
Трэклист:
1. Central Plains 8:07
2. Tensor 5:43
3. MOS 6581 (Album Version) 7:10
4. Silent Running 7:04
5. Neurotransmitter 7:27
6. Hydroponic Garden (Voice - Yoji Ishida) 9:12
7. Exosphere 5:05
8. Comsat 7:07
9. Epicentre/First Movement (Voice - Anna Andersson) 5:57
10. Artificial Island 5:11
11. Refraction 1.33
Доп. информация: Carbon Based Lifeforms surprised everyone in 2003 with this release. CBL quickly rose from relative unknowns to having an ambient cult following; this is definitely one of the very best ambient albums in the past decade.
Central Plains and Tensor conjure up traditional ambient images of walking through peaceful gardens, except with more emphasis on the acid. Both of these tracks are totally beautiful and enough to hook me from the start.
MOS 6581, typically the fan favourite, is one of those tracks which you won't forget. A spooky sample overlaid with some great synth lines make this another wonderful track.
Neurotransmitter makes me feel like a giant, walking in the countryside and taking huge, regular footsteps. This is really the peak of the album before drifting off into an ambient second half.
Most of the second half isn't nearly as exciting as the first; in fact sometimes I feel tempted to start again when I get to Hydroponic Garden, the title track. It's got some wailing voices which tread a very fine line between lush and annoying.
Anyway, Exosphere and Comsat are nice sleepy tracks which begin to pick up again, before Epicentre, which sounds like classical on acid - this is another beautiful track. Artifical Island is sort of haunting and makes you think what an Artifical Island is... does this music create an Artificial Island, for you to enter another realm?
The album ends with Refraction 1.33, a complex and profound ending to a complex and profound album. Like really good ambient albums, this manages to create its own world - the Hydroponic Album, a land of floating trees and untouched beauty.
© & ℗ on this album 2003 Ultimae Records
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