Phenomena 256

Phenomena 256 Artist: Experimental Audio Research
Label: Sympathy 4 the R.I.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 790276045927
EAN: 0790276045927
ASIN: B000003L06


Release Date: 1996-09-24

Phenomena 256


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Tracks:

  1. Delta 6 (Hydroponic)
  2. Space Themes Part 1 & 2
  3. Sub Aqua (Left Channel)/Tidal (Centre Channel)/Lunar (Right Channel)
  4. Ring Modulator
  5. As The Night Starts Closing In
  6. Phenomena 256 (3 Piece Suite)
  7. Spacestation
  8. Mood For A Summer Sundown

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Another great album from E.A.R........2000-07-05

Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember has steadily moved away from the traditional song structures that marked his early solo work and instead moved to an ambient/experimental M.O. This is ambience with an edge, not the typical background fodder ambient music is known for. However, it can swing both ways as some of the sounds found here are soothing like ice water in the middle of the desert. Kember quietly made some of the most engaging minimal music of the 90's, and he continues to work with new technologies and methods of sound generation. The only reason this gets four and not five stars is that this album didn't change the face of ambient music the way Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream et al did in the 70's. However, this album is easily accesible to the masses and is worth seeking out.

5 out of 5 stars amazing, powerful soundscapes.......2000-06-13

This CD is incredible. The sounds Peter Kember, aka Sonic Boom (formerly of Spacemen 3) has unleashed on this CD are brilliantly effective & gorgeous. It isn't loaded with annoyances like some of E.A.R.'s other output, it's just a pure, incrediblelistening experience, from the dark & cool wash of "Space Themes Part 1 & 2--Tribute To John Cage in C,A,G,E", to the intense feedback on track 3, the stunning atonal, percussion-heavy "As The Night Starts Closing In", & the overwhelming, "bugs under your skin" "Spacestation", you couldn't ask for a more glorious narcotic. The last track is the one disappointment--it doesn't fit in very well, & to put it a certain way, it kinda feels like 'upbeat filler' (haha)--but even still, this is a masterpiece, & if you're only going to have one E.A.R. disc, this is unquestionably the one to have.

3 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Train Songs ~ Two Dollar Guitar
  2. Overcome ~ Cast Aside
  3. Early Tapes ~ Cat Stevens
  4. King Biscuit Flower Hour ~ Rick Wakeman
  5. Life in Slow Motion ~ David Gray
  6. The Atlantic Collection ~ Hall & Oates
  7. Coma Rally
  8. Sixties Groovy Hits ~ Various Artists
  9. Laughing on Judgement Day ~ Thunder
  10. Crystal Jungles of Eos ~ Spiral Realms

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Afro ~ Dizzy Gillespie

Sunshine Express ~ Bud Shank

Play Monk and Powell ~ Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band

Collection ~ Patti Austin

Garota Moderna ~ Rosalia de Souza

Mystery of Love ~ Mohammad Reza Lotfi

Sua Sanfona E Sua Simpatia ~ Luiz Gonzaga

PEACEFUL WORLD ~ Nicole Milner, Nomi Yah, Xsample

Kokoro Iro ~ Suguru Ikeda

Souvenir of Australia ~ Various Artists