Customer Reviews

Approaching Totality

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This is a fascinating CD. It is a series of abstract collage pieces played on a really unique collection of instruments. The instrument list includes "metals", cello, oboe, voice, piano, saw-u(?), and gu zheng(?!!). Many of the instruments appear to be Asian or Middle Eastern in origin.
Even though this is clearly experimental music, it isn't annoying or noisy. It is more like clouds of abstract sound that wash over you, shimmering and strange. This is not New Age music (it is far too ominous for that) but it is meditative and evocative. It sounds like something that Brian Eno would come up with if he worked with Asian musicians.

This music is very relaxing and beautiful but it isn't vapid and forgettable like New Age music. Instead, this is a collection of abstract sounds and improvisation on instruments from around the world. It is all so wonderful and strange! This CD includes some really significant guest artists like Joseph Celli (world music reed player) and Illusion of Safety (a legendary electronic music group).

Pointless Orchestra is a group that created really interesting abstract music that challenged their listeners to hear music in new ways. Their music successfully combined free improvisation and sound collages to create something new out of familiar elements of sound. "Approaching Totality" includes a wide array of musical instruments from around the world but don't expect this to sound like folk music! It is more like a collection of strange collages that ebb and flow in constantly suprising directions. Even though this music is highly unusual, it is also very calming because there aren't any of the sudden blasts of noise or unsettling timbreal shifts that a lot of free improvisation and collage music contain. I read on their website that Pointless Orchestra disbanded a few years ago. Check out their work while it is still available!

This is the best music I have ever listened to! A combination of classical meters with a boogie woogie backbeat! Nothing like it since Joe Simon's field recordings of the Hibernian skink trappers playing their harpoons!

This music is so relaxing! I think it should be played in psychiatric hospitals, airport lounges and deparment stores. I am going to check out all the musak on this lable which I hope will cont. to produce more of this facinating music from HIbernia. Thank you Amazon for letting me praise this recording as it will make very good stocking stuffers for my relatives!

The Pointless Orchestra's Music puts me to sleep every night just like magic! I had lots of sleep problems until I started listening to this CD every night. Thank you!!!