Everywhere he travels, he records sound out of the window, with his portable DAT machine. He also takes a snap-shot of each window with a digital camera. Two musical themes, one representing a man, the other a woman, inte... more »ract with these ambiances, so that the music and the couple the music seeks to represent, embark on a voyage, as if searching each other, across all the planet, and beyond? Meditative music to concentrate you, listen while you work. Contemplative.« less
Everywhere he travels, he records sound out of the window, with his portable DAT machine. He also takes a snap-shot of each window with a digital camera. Two musical themes, one representing a man, the other a woman, interact with these ambiances, so that the music and the couple the music seeks to represent, embark on a voyage, as if searching each other, across all the planet, and beyond? Meditative music to concentrate you, listen while you work. Contemplative.
CD Reviews
A great record from a great keyboard player
evounette | 03/15/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Windows is a quiet record you can listen when you feel really tired and worried. Between Ambient and Rock, Steve Nieve released an instrumental cd which will bring you anywhere its author may have been during the recording. Different moods, different styles, it's a journey with one of the greatest keyboard player of our times."
For the tired people
chikucyu- | Fukuoka. JAPAN | 04/04/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This album has bestiful tunes. These songs has a power of healing. So, I recommend this album to the tired people. If you feel this music, you will want to travel somewhere. And you will search your window."
Steve Nieve-Worldly Wise
Frank DiRoberto | St. Louis, MO, USA | 04/04/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Steve Nieve is not just another supporting player, he is THE keyboard player of our generation. Sometimes lost in Elvis' shadow, Steve steps front and center here with haunting melodies and diverse, subtle movements of sound and emotion, imploring the listener to use imagination to see and hear the moment the music defines. Unimaginative folk need not apply, this album requires thoughtfulness and investment, time and attention, whether looking out your car window (recommended listening venue) or your bedroom window Steve's personal view of the windows he has seen will add to your enjoyment of that memory or the moment you are in. An interesting, singular view from an interesting worldly wise traveller."
Simply beautiful...
Mr. S. A. H. Done | Liverpool | 10/18/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have little I can add to the excellent, perceptive and accurate reviews that preceed this one. All the other 5 totally 'get' what Steve Nieve is saying on this sublime album, and frankly for the (sadly) rather exclusively small club of people who own this cd, we have a real musical gem, a masterpiece, an album that thankfully goes so far to counter-balance the endless poor quality rubbish the music industry churns out. This is thoughtful, unique, beautiful, qenuinely therapeutic (in the nicest sense of the word) music, that repays your time and concentration by the spade-load. BUY THIS ALBUM! BUY IT FOR THE YOUR FRIENDS. they really will thank you!
Track Listings (9) - Disc #1