Cities of Foam "A Great Day for the Race", Brian Eno "Music for Films", Ecstasy of St Theresa "In Dust 3"

CITIES OF FOAM - A GREAT DAY FOR THE RACE

Year: 2005

1.Last Man Standing [5:57]8.5 Mb

2.Barry Can't Do Flat Tops [5:24]7.7 Mb

3.Out of Reach [3:06]4.4 Mb

4.Half Empty [4:32]6.5 Mb

5.Girls in Bars [5:21]7.6 Mb

6.Safe Inside [5:36]8.1 Mb

7.Goldtop [5:56]8.5 Mb

8.Liquid Remedy [5:38]8.1 Mb

9.Le Melomane [4:57]7.1 Mb

10.Without You [4:52]7 Mb

11.Oleambi [4:42]6.7 Mb

12.Under Stars [3:15]4.6 Mb

13.Picking Up Tin Cans [5:57]8.5 Mb

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Cities of Foam "A Great Day for the Race" Album Review

solid album
This, their debut album, is a solid piece of chillout musica. Not every song is a knockout, of course, but at worst the songs are repetitively pleasant. At best, they're infectious and gorgeous! The layered instrumentation is nicely varied, with acoustic instruments and understated vocals appearing often, but also spiced up with plenty of electronic warbles and synth buzzing.

They won't win any awards for originality, but I give 5 stars for immense enjoyability.

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BRIAN ENO - MUSIC FOR FILMS

Year: 2005

1.Aragon [1:36]2.1 Mb

2.From the Same Hill [2:59]4.1 Mb

3.Inland Sea [1:24]1.7 Mb

4.Two Rapid Formations [3:22]5 Mb

5.Slow Water [3:16]4.3 Mb

6.Sparrowfall (1) [1:10]1.7 Mb

7.Sparrowfall (2) [1:43]2.5 Mb

8.Sparrowfall (3) [1:23]1.9 Mb

9.Alternative 3 [3:14]4.3 Mb

10.Quartz [2:02]3.2 Mb

11.Events in Dense Fog [3:43]5.3 Mb

12.There is Nobody [1:42]2.2 Mb

13.Patrolling Wire Borders [1:41]2.4 Mb

14.A Measured Room [1:05]1.6 Mb

15.Task Force [1:22]1.9 Mb

16.M386 [2:49]4.2 Mb

17.Strange Light [2:09]3 Mb

18.Final Sunset [4:13]5.4 Mb

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Brian Eno "Music for Films" Album Review

Okay but not great
I am a big fan of Brian Eno's early abstract work. I like the way he took simple ideas and explored them until they became transformed into something completely different. For example, on "Music for Airports" he recorded women singing single notes, made tape loops of varying lengths from those recordings and let them circulate until many different combinations of notes and silences emerged. The result was beautiful and other-worldly. So, when Eno recorded an album of "soundtrack material" (for non-existant films) it seemed that he had stumbled onto a great outlet for his music. Instead, this is a collection of pieces that sound like floor sweepings from the "Another Green World" sessions. The pieces are short and often sound like passing thoughts that never developed into anything of substance. There are some nice moments on this recording, including some great bass parts and guest appearences by people like Robert Fripp but overall this is one of the weakest of Eno's early recordings.

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ECSTASY OF ST THERESA - IN DUST 3

1.Just A Fade [4:01]5.7 Mb

2.Neon [3:07]4.4 Mb

3.Winter 22 [5:17]8.2 Mb

4.Danger [4:48]6.9 Mb

5.Dumb [5:41]8.3 Mb

6.Go [2:33]4.2 Mb

7.Noises of Silence [6:33]9.6 Mb

8.Ikarie XB1 [4:37]6.6 Mb

9.Haunted by Demons [7:08]9.4 Mb

10.1 and 1 (11) [5:39]8.1 Mb

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Ecstasy of St Theresa "In Dust 3" Album Review

Review
The Czechoslovakian ambient group the Ecstasy of St. Theresa comprised vocalist/keyboardist Irna Libowitz, sound designers Jan Muchow and Petr Wegner, bassist Jan Gregar, guitarist John Moore, multi-instrumentalist Misa Klimkova, keyboardist Colin Stuart, flautist Vladimira Jestrabova and percussionist Katie Hecker.

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