Search - Jeff Greinke :: Places of Motility

Offering from the Master

M. Watkins | 04/26/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Updated 11/6/06



Jeff Greinke has always had his own unique

approach to ambient soundscapes. With even

a casual listening, one will quickly come to

realize that he is an original musician.



"Places of Motility" is a highly rewarding

atmospheric effort, and delivers Greinke's patented

blend of electronic music and elemental/organic

textures that seem to perfectly capture his

fondness for the ever changing skies of his

hometown in Seattle. His music even captures a

sense for the nuanced vagaries and quirks

of meterology and reveals to us how fascinating

those sounds and places can be. Places of Motility

never ceases to give the ear something meaningful

and engaging to contemplate.



It would be fair to call greinke a pioneer of what

folks refer to when they say 'dark' ambient

or 'isolationist'. He probably doesn't care for such

titles (and his more recent works have moved into some

new directions) but he remains his own man.

Out of hundreds of ambient recordings, I have about a

dozen of Jeff's works and cherish them all - they

enjoy the status of belonging to the albums

I'll always keep.



Jeff Greinke is one of a handful of composers

whom I consider to be true lights of the ambient

genre, and so I don't dole out high praise

too easily. So sit back, close your eyes and

open your mind to the Master of Motility.

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