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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 1) | Pete Namlook | 11:45 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 2) | Pete Namlook | 5:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 3) | Pete Namlook | 2:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 4) | Pete Namlook | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 5) | Pete Namlook | 7:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 6) | Pete Namlook | 3:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 7) | Pete Namlook | 0:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 8) | Pete Namlook | 4:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 9) | Pete Namlook | 8:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 10) | Pete Namlook | 4:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Travelling Without Moving (Trip 11) | Pete Namlook | 5:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
Air 2 is a CD of 11 "trips" by Pete Namlook, one of the most prolific recording artists of all time. These compositions — "Trip 1" through "Trip 11" — are individual atmospheres with overt and subtle influences. Namlook is well versed and well traveled in many ambient styles and displays them here. The primary modus operandi for this disc, however, is minimalism. The individual atmospheres build from drones and intertwine to create grand soundscapes. This is one of Namlook's deeper works. It will appeal to fans of Alio Die, Zero Ohms, Brannan Lane, and Mathias Grassow.
Customer Reviews
Travelling
One of the great things about electronic music is that it can transport the listener to new, undiscovered worlds. Certainly this masterpiece does that and more. We get to experience an artist whose palette of sound colors is large and rich. I've been listening and performing electronic music for decades now, and Air II is special. I can only give my highest recommendation for this wonderful tone journey.
Tracks 4 and 5 Are Outstanding
My review is based on an original Air II CD that I own. I have not downloaded the iTunes Air II tracks, although the iTunes samples sound true to the original.
Air II is a fluid trip around the world and beyond. Each track blends into the track after it, and a number of recurring themes occur across the album.
-- Track 1 has a moody, ambient, deep, choral drone, a deep, resonant drum (tabla?), voice clips that involve lines from the movie Dune, and a woman speaking in hushed tones in French. Some compare it to the group Enigma, but the track is more ambient, and less beat, than Enigma generally gets.
-- Track 2 extends Track 1, but brings in a mellow melody on Southwest Asian flutes (neys?).
-- Track 3 keeps the deep ambience going, but picks up the pace and extends the Southwest Asian theme with brisk hand drumming, what sounds like Turkish bells, and other things.
-- Track 4 opens the album up into a vast, deep, distant, ambient system of chorus and roiling drones that provides a sense of tremendous space and flow. While it has no beat, its vastness and depth are a fitting preparation for track 5.
-- When track 4 transforms into track 5, wide frequency response (think subwoofers) suddenly becomes essential to understanding the music. Very deep synth notes intermix with higher notes to create a tight, relatively fast, circular rhythm (without wide frequency response, the circularity is not present). Then a drum starts in and further punctuates that rhythm. Eventually the drum ceases, giving way to a vastly echoing chorus performing an ascending series of notes. At its highest note, the chorus ceases, followed closely by the return of the drum. The effect is a musical bridge deep into the cosmos. After a few rounds of the drumbeat interspersed with the choral bridge, track 5 turns into track 6. Tracks 4 and 5 are reminiscent of Vangelis at his most effective and moving.
-- Track 6 backs off from drums, moving into deep drones, some faint chanting, and a variety of what sounds like echoing, melodic, Far Eastern xylophonic percussion instruments.
-- Track 7 is an extension of track 6, with clips of a man speaking (played backwards?).
-- Track 8 turns right into a relatively fast-paced drumbeat working closely with an alternation between ambient chords and didgeridoo.
-- Track 9 once again drops the drums, turning to a faintly echoing mandolin-like instrument, a high-pitched, wistful, solo voice-synth effect, and voice clips of a woman speaking in French.
-- Track 10 is faint, slow percussive elements on primitive wooden instruments, mixed with jungle bird-calls.
-- Track 11 finishes up the trip with a very light synth tune, beat, and ambience, reminiscent of a cosmopolitan urban setting.
Heaven
Trip 2 is the reason I started listening to Ambient music a decade ago. An excellent transition album between multiple genres - techno, electronica, world, alternative. This is the album to convert the ambient non-believers.
Biography
Genre: Electronic
Years Active: '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Pete Namlook
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V/8 - Psychedelic Brunch | The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog | 8:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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VII/6 - Obscured By Klaus | The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog | 7:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nilüfer | Sultan - Nilüfer (Exclusive) - Single | 5:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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While Angels Sleep | Silence V | 8:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The 7th Spirit (Edit) | Re:sonate | 5:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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III/4 - Phantom Heart Brother | The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog | 6:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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VIII/6 - Careful With the AKS, Peter | The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog | 8:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I - Wish You Were There (Excerpt) | The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog | 3:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nerden Geliyorsun, Pt. II | Sultan Orhan | 8:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You (Spiritual Invocation) | Air | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
