Temple in the Clouds

Artist: Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp
Label: Projekt Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617026010427
EAN: 0617026010427
ASIN: B00004WK1W

Release Date: 2000-08-22

Temple in the Clouds

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Tracks:

The Pillars Of Hercules
The Sky Below
A Temple In The Clouds
The Stars Below

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Customer Reviews:

Great ambience!.......2006-02-14

This recording is one of the best releases to experience if you're into "passive listening." As is Fripp's (and Brian Eno's) original intent, this ambient music is a great accompaniment to have going if you're doing something else in a more physical capacity (reading, walking / hiking, light housework, computering, etc.). Now that Fripp has retitled his "Frippertronics" technique as "soundscapes," it definitely adds a somewhat different audio dimension to his delivery and the end result, of course, is simply exquisite. Be sure to check out his similar work with Bill Rieflin and Trey Gunn .... Amazing stuff indeed!

This release though is highly recommended for those of you who enjoy listening to something different but still within a "passive" mode.

Great job, as always, Robert!!

ticket to another world.......2005-04-01

Maybe it's just me, but I cannot listen to this CD without becoming utterly transported to some other world. It's not for actively 'listening to', but have it on while reading Lovecraft or some similar otherworldly tome, or while painting, or writing, or dozing... it gives me a delerium-like 'high'. I think something about the sounds and the semi-random noise induces some kind of alpha-waves or wakes up the right side of my brain or something. I found my first copy at the library and became addicted enough to buy the CD for myself. I wish I could find another album like this but I have not yet; no other ambient album does this for me. Alas!

Astoundingly Boring.......2001-02-21

I liked some of Fripp's other sound loop projects, but this was so boring I couldn't stand it. Better to get one of those ambient sound records of wave crashing on the beach. At least there is some rhythmic component to that. New age music at its worst.

A lot like evening star.......2000-11-11

If you like the soothing mercurial guitar lines in Fripp and Eno's Evening Star 's side one, you will like this cd for sure. Nothing new or spectacular, but really nice for quiet , relaxed listening.

Not Fripp's best, but fine soundscapes.......2000-11-08

After listening to this and then going back and listening to both the Fripp & Eno recordings (No Pussyfooting and Evening Star) I understand where the Fripp & Eno comparisons are coming from. Is Temple in the Clouds as good as these? No, I don't think so. But then again, I don't think those two will ever be surpassed; they're the original classics of ambient. Is this collaboration worthwhile? Yes, if you're into ambient sound-sculptures that still push the envelope a bit. While the four tracks on A Temple In the Clouds don't have the quiet, near-academic discipline and focus of No Pussyfooting or Evening Star, the four tracks on Temple in the Clouds are certainly mesmerizing, and surely as good as any of the non-dance-oriented trance that's come out this year (except, maybe, for Biosphere's things). The use of tape-loop sequences are somewhat less evident than on Fripp's earlier recordings, buried as they are in heavy keyboard washes. Titles like "Pillars of Hercules" and the title track, however, beautifully capture the mood of the piece.

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