Peter Mergener – Noises In The Sky (rare!! 2nd hand)

Description

Skylistening 02:52
Into The Great Wide Open 07:07
In Orbit 04:58
Touch Down 02:01
Another World 04:11
Noises In The Sky 07:11
Cosmic Winds 03:36
Frozen Landscape 06:35
Celebration 07:29
Return Back 05:07
Skywatching 04:08
Home Planet 06:39
Total Time: 62:17

Good music creates visions in the listener´s mind. Especially spheric electronic music has traditionally been connected, by its creators and their listeners alike, with images from outer space.
On of the most respected musicians from Europe´s electronic music scene continues this tradition in a quite unusual manner: each of the twelve tracks on his new album “Noises In the Sky” is based on a space-imagination.
In his fantasy, PETER MERGENER has found these exiting sounds by listening to the sky. He has transformed them into music. The German composer has become prominent through his innovative work with projects such as Software and G.E.N.E. as well as his soundtrack work like the score to the tv-docu-series “Terra X”.

This release from 1998 offers 62 minutes of cosmic electronics.
Joining Mergener in this studio project are: Achim Elson on guitar, and Ingo von Wenzlawowicz on percussion. While voices (provided by Kathryn Thornton and Rusty Schweickart) grace a few brief tracks, the rest of the album is instrumental in nature.

Giving in to conventional associations drawn by the public between most electronic music and outer space, Mergener explores the galactic void with the music on this release. Half of this music is vibrant and rhythmic, pulsating electronic textures and chugging chords and propulsive percussion. These tunes possess an expansive quality, outgoing and relentless with subtle pop undertones. Often frenetic rhythms goad the tuneage to breathless velocities as keyboard riffs meld into expressive sequences of celestial awe. Mechanical devices are employed to enhance the illusion of space travel, delivering enormous scope to the melodies. Astral guitar, again squealing in a progrock mode, provides a powerful element to these already exuberant passages.

The peppier, more epic pieces are generally separated by more ethereal compositions, affording the audience the opportunity to reboot their sensibilities in preparation for the grandeur lying ahead in the next major composition. These lighter pieces undulate with languid qualities, giving electronic voice to the nebulous demeanor of interstellar domains.

2nd hand copy of this rare out of print CD in mint condition!!