Metanoia

Artist: Porcupine Tree Label: Delerium Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Original recording remastered Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 636551286220 EAN: 0636551286220 ASIN: B00006BCAZ Release Date: 2002-08-13

Metanoia

Tracks:

1. Mesmer I
2. Mesmer II
3. Mesmer III/Coma Divine
4. Door To The River
5. Metanoia I/Intermediate Jesus
6. Insignificance
7. Metanoia II
8. Milan

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4. Up the Downstair
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Customer Reviews:

In Absentia fans should try Stars Die next.......2004-05-09

who needs drugs with music like this?.......2003-12-19

_Metanoia_ may be outtakes, but personally I think these improvs are very successful and compelling. Spacey guitars and synths, Colin Edwin's hypnotic fretless basslines, and Chris Maitland nuance-filled, tricky drumming are merged into a Floydian soup of aural delight. Also remarkable is the band's emphatic mindset towards creating -- it's all improvised, after all. The songs are long and gaseous, only occasionally suggesting forward movement, but intuitively developing tension or dynamics or atmosphere with great expertise. Sometimes if an album like this goes on for 60 minutes, it can be tiresome. However, Porcupine Tree keeps it from dragging or putting you to sleep, simply because the sonic rapture of this set is so absorbing. Some of the most sublime PT moments are found here, minus the final track "Milan" which is just two minutes of people talking about frivolous things (I'm not sure why it's there, and the album would be better without it).

It's very easy to lay back in the dark with headphones and become lost in this expansive, lush document. And Edwin's bass is soooo mesmerizing. Some people would have no interest in this kind of thing, but I think it is a highly valuable part of my PT collection. It works as a chemical-free way to trip out or as cosmic lovemaking music for astronauts.

THIS GROUP HAS TO BE HEARD TO BE BELIEVED!.......2003-08-11

This band (despite their protestations) does sound like Pink Floyd would have sounded if (a)Roger Waters had not left, (b) David Gilmour had kept some piss in his playing, and, (c) they had aproached each new album as a challenge to write a new "Dark Side of the Moon".

"Metanoia" is about an hour's worth of studio jams and improvs during the recording of "Signify" but they are played beautifully and are rarely boring. Get this along with the expanded (2 CDs) versions of "Signify" and "Coma Divine" and you will forget the last twenty years of Pink Floyd history.

Inside the making of music.......2002-09-20

That is to be expected if put into perspective. On Metanoia we hear Porcupine Tree improvising and fleshing out material. To a great extent we get an inside look to the creative process that went into "Signify" as much of this music is from the recording sessions.

Fans of earlier Porcupine Tree albums, in particular "The Sky Moves Sideway" will be more interested in this album. Many of the moments from that album, it's ambience particularly on the last couple of tracks would fit well on this CD.

As a listener I have taken two approaches to Metanoia. I've listened to it as background music and unlike ambient or insipid "easy listening" these tracks melt into the background. Sometimes you stop what you are doing and the music catches you. It's easy to continue with what you did but you know there is something behind the ambience you hear. The second approach is sitting down, concentrating and listening. To some degree this is nearly impossible. Personally, I drift off when listening to Metanoia. The music is somewhat repetitive at times but there are details within the grooves and ambiences that are there for the discovering. This is an album that rewards listeners with small moments within larger amorphous structures.

For people who enjoy song based music it's probably a good idea to pass on Metanoia. For people that like improvisation this is appealing although mostly subdued. In part this is why I haven't reviewed individual songs. The music simply flows and undulates. There are dynamics in these songs but they are more about atmosphere and sonic textural explorations.

Metanoia achives the bridge between ambient and groove Eno has been trying for the last few years and does a better job of integrating the two. Great sound quality, interesting interactions between the rhythm section and the keyboard and guitar textures. My parting thought; think Pink Floyd meets ambient electronica, or what they call dark ambient this week :) Or consider this NEU! meets Pink Floyd at top form.

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