Track Listings (1) - Disc #1| All Artists: Gavin Bryars Title: The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-) Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Touch Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 12/11/2007 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop Styles: Electronica, Techno, Experimental Music, Dance Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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 | Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-) Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop
Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the oddest and at the same time most mesmerizing works to come out of this end of the century. It began in 1972 as an abstract art piece that kept on building and changing in... more » |
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Amazon.com Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the oddest and at the same time most mesmerizing works to come out of this end of the century. It began in 1972 as an abstract art piece that kept on building and changing in the composer's mind. It's a ghostly tapestry of eerie echoes, distant sounds almost like whale songs, and interjected rifts representing the band that was playing even as the boat sank. This is a masterpiece that rewards repeated listenings. --Paul Cook Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsMeditative Douglas T Martin | Alpharetta, GA USA | 02/05/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I wonder how many people bought this recording thinking it had something to do with the "Titanic" movie? And if so, how many kept the recording? Their loss. This is a great work, well performed and recorded. Repetitious without being monotonous, it's the aural equivalent of watching light move across the water as seen from beneath the surface. Recommended to fans of Eno, Philip Glass, and their contemporaries." Beautiful A. Laye | Maryland | 07/26/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "It isnt mentioned in any other reviews or in the product description that this version includes Philip Jeck and Alter Ego. Most viewers already know that the piece of music has been performed with many different ensembles and ranges from 15 minutes to 80 minutes in length. This recording, however, is my favorite. Philip Jecks turntablisms are more for sound construction than for "DJing" in the traditional sense of the term. Alter Ego consists of strings, brass, winds, percussion, keyboard, tape recorder and sound design. This ensembles interpretation of this peice of music is truly breathtaking and beautiful - adjectives I do not use lightly. Besides the georgious instrumentation, I much prefer the production of this record over the 1995 version. I will refrain from falling into the trap of making comparrisons or saying "fans of [x] will enjoy this", but for my personal tastes, this one one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. Highly recommended. " Unobtrusively ambient Hingehead | Cairnsberra, Australia | 12/04/2004 (4 out of 5 stars) "Like Phil Glass this piece relies on repeating relatively simple patterns in layers that slowly change the overall colour of the sound without any obvious melodic or key changes. Unlike Phil Glass rhythm has virtually no place in this piece. It moves like a light mist over the valley of your listening ear.
Predominantly strings, pensive but not unhappy in mood, it would be a fitting to have it playing in the submersible's cd player while you scouted around the wreck of the Titanic when it was on the bottom of the ocean, wondering about the what-ifs of the lives lost, who last drank out of that coral encrusted champagne glass, who's pocket that coin fell from... Also good to go to sleep to if, like me, you love to drift off to music." |
