Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tuu Title: One Thousand Years Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Waveform Original Release Date: 1/1/2001 Re-Release Date: 5/8/2001 Genres: Dance & Electronic, New Age, Pop Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Meditation Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 789060110125 |
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An excellent companion to Uakti and Philip Glass's wonderful Aguas de Amazonia, U.K. trio Tuu's One Thousand Years is a densely textured ambient homage to primitive magical woodlands, tribal peoples, and sacred waters.... more » |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001 An excellent companion to Uakti and Philip Glass's wonderful Aguas de Amazonia, U.K. trio Tuu's One Thousand Years is a densely textured ambient homage to primitive magical woodlands, tribal peoples, and sacred waters. The group features not just the expected synthesizer and samples but flutes, panpipes, clay-pot drums, bowl gongs, and a chiming array of percussion. Creating nearly an hour of luscious soundscape at once both ancient and modern, Tuu seem to find influences ranging from Ravi Shankar to Tuvan throat singing and pygmy song; taking cues too, from Tibetan chant and ceremony and the inherent music of old-growth forests visited by wind and rain. Beginning with the haunting dissonance of "Exile," an interplay of sound and silence, drone and tinkling bell, One Thousand Years plays as a mystic song cycle, quite likely to find an audience beyond listeners already won over to music classified as New Age. --Paige La Grone Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsLush, Misty and Mysterious J.M. Leonard | wheaton, il. United States | 05/09/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "Think what it must have been like to trail through the undiscovered, unmolested jungles and forests of earth before humans completely "conquered" the world. The silence, the loneliness, the mystery and fear, the beauty. This is how I felt while listening to "One Thousand Years" by Tuu."Exile" is a hypnotic, melodic beckoning, as if two or more primitive tribes are communicating over distances.The title track, a masterpiece, captures the essesnce of the album. It made me forget I was living at the dawn of the 21'st century and put me in a prehistoric, timeless world I couldn't shake for hours after I heard it. "High Places" gave me the feeling of just that, sitting atop a tall tree or cliff looking at the natural events below me, contemplating. "Pan American" and "Body of Light" continue the same feeling of watching, and being watched, by primitive peoples.The only reason I can't in fairness give this five stars is that this style of music has been done numerous times. I 've heard this kind of music numerous times by others. Rarely has it been done THIS well, however.Another gorgeous late-night listening experience from the Waveform label. A spirtual cleansing. Highly recommended!" Early Tuu evokes ancient perspectives & more tranquil times David B. Spalding | Chromejob-dot-com | 12/08/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Happily reissued by Waveform, this was an excellent early to mid 90's ambient work. Its slow pace, and atmospheric mix of synths and folk instrumentation, evoke a more human past in which dreaming and spiritual speculation were stronger than any mass media or cultural technology ... heck, way back when, myths and folklore WERE the mass media. The technology ... was spoken history, and musical expression. Not quite slow and serene enough for yoga or other meditation, but a suitable soundtrack to your own afternoon of quiet melancholy for a hidden past. On the [Scary (1) -> Angelic (10)] scale of ambient works, I'd position this at 6. Followed by ALL OUR ANCESTORS, also on Waveform, also highly recommended as a companion CD." Very good CD. D.M.K | Las Vegas, Nevada United States | 08/14/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I was a little disapointed when I discovered the Nick Parkin was not on the CD, but, its very good although he is not present. In fact, Iam most certainly impressed. A very relaxing and trance producing CD, that maintains interest all the way through. One of the better purchases for me this year. I was playing it so much I was afraid I was going to burn myself out, so I put it away for a couple of weeks..highly recomended"
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