Track Listings (5) - Disc #1| All Artists: As Lonely As Dave Bowman Title: Pod Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Projekt Records Original Release Date: 7/16/2007 Release Date: 7/16/2007 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Ambient, Goth & Industrial Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 617026019529 |
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Electronic side-project from Projekt and black tape for a blue girl founder Sam Rosenthal... — Exploring the vast isolation of cold, dark space, POD creates a chilling ambient environment. Detaching and drawing back into it... more » |
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Product Description Electronic side-project from Projekt and black tape for a blue girl founder Sam Rosenthal... Exploring the vast isolation of cold, dark space, POD creates a chilling ambient environment. Detaching and drawing back into itself like droplets of mercury, expanding and contracting into eternity, it calls out like a haunting beacon signaling to earth from the deep reaches of space. Inspired metaphorically by the 2001: a space odyssey character Dave Bowman, by the absence of human civilization, and by the texture of pure sound, As Lonely as Dave Bowman explores the next stage of ambient drone. POD crafts a singular sound of metaphoric loneliness that is not just a strand that drifts through space but is an enveloping, permeating cloud. It travels in an infinite trajectory, exploring the realm of the unknown. For this recording, Sam worked in the studio in new and organic ways. Forsaking his usual melodic and lyrical approach to song-writing, he quickly developed musical pieces that are principally texture and spacial landscapes, created from a flow of synthetically produced loops and old-fashioned outboard effects. Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsLook, here's the deal . . . I am the | Live from Kolob | 10/10/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Whenever an artist with an established fan base and a discernable style produces work that departs significantly from what his admirers have come to expect, there are going to be those that are left scratching their heads. I think that some Black Tape for a Blue Girl fans might not be accustomed to minimal ambient drone, and hence might not know what to make of this. I found this release via Amazon's "People who bought that also bought this" feature, and being a fan of Steve Roach and other ambient minimalists, bought this on a hunch after listening to the sound samples. I'm glad I did, because when it comes to ambient drone, this is as good as it gets. Moody, evocative, isolating, sinister, peaceful, serene-- all of these at once. This isn't the kind of music you listen to on your iPod. You don't put this in your car stereo on the way to work. Last night I leaned back in my recliner and put this on in a pitch black room. Try that, and you'll know how it feels to be as lonely as Dave Bowman. This is a great piece of work that compares favorably to the best of Steve Roach, Oophoi, and Lustmord." Ambiant Marie Moyer | North Augusta, SC | 08/24/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "Soft Ambiant wave wash over one as if lying on a beach with thier eyes close and their sensories are more acute to the sounds, smells, tastes, and feel of nature surrounding them. Hauntingly beautiful." FIVE STARS Michael Laird | Central Texas Hill Country | 08/24/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "I LOVE THIS CD! I loved it since the moment I first heard it; the music sounds extremely cold and extremely dark; the only thing I could compare it to would be Harold Budd's "Abandoned Cities." Whoever gave it "two stars" doesn't understand what this CD is all about! It's uncompromising and difficult and magnificent. That reviewer's suggestion to infect this CD with some "space blips" or "NASA chatter" is simply IDIOTIC. To me this CD is PERFECT as is.
If you cannot think outside the box, if you watch endless reality TV (including all the banal commercials) or if you needs to be spoon-fed formulaic pop-songs, then this CD will *not* be for you. However, if you want to hear something truly original, then this might be for you. As for me, it's now one of my "Desert Island" CDs -- check it out for yourself!" |
