Customer Reviews

Ether Dome

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Richard Bone's music is really compelling. I prefer ambient music with some sort of theme, whether it is a musical, tuneful one, or overdubs. Richard Bone's music is graceful and very interesting to listen to. It is definitely on the ambient with a musical theme side, as you can hear the cut "Unawakened". The more ethereal, ambient flavor of his music comes out in cuts such as "The Introduction of Gilbert Abbott". All the cuts on this CD are very good. Playing the CD from one end to the other maintains interest throughout, and never gets repetitious, or dead. Richard Bone also does music which is completely different, but equally as wonderful, on his own Quirk label. Amazon carries the latest one, Ascensionism. I recommend both CDs.

I heard several tracks from this CD on a Hearts of Space show, and knew i had to have it. Each track is different enough to keep you interested in the entire CD, but an eerie yet dreamlike mood is held throughout. Mostly electronic instruments create a canvas that a minimalist piano paints upon. If you have any other Richard Bone releases, but not this (or The Spectral Ships), you'll be surprised ... this isn't like anything he had ever done before or since. Really great stuff.

Why 4 stars? I reserve 5 stars for CDs that are classics in every sense. The audience for this CD is limited, but if you need something to get you in an eerie/dreamy mood, you'll enjoy this.

Richard Bone is fast becoming one of my favorite artists in the ambient-chill-transglobal-with-a- Brian-Eno-twist genre. I risk limiting scope with such a description of this music, for words are not adequate to describe the soothing segues and melodious justapositions achieved on Ether Dome. A must for the serious collector of ambient/chill...

This music is as luscious as a fresh, hot, Krispy Kreme doughnut. Smooth, luxurious, textured, delicate and compelling. You melt into an altered state of consciousness without even realizing that you have been seduced by these soothing feelings.

This album is a very rich aural experience. "Unawakened", "The Incubus Wave" and "Plateau to Level 30" are especially hypnotic as Richard Bone wraps your consciousness in waves of undulating sounds that evoke really sensual feelings within.

Song #3 "Calenture" is like being counted down into sleep. The music paces with your breathing as you feel yourself slipping deeper and deeper into that delicious relaxed space that offers total release from everything that may be causing tension or pain. It is a wonderful anaesthesia. When the voices come in about 3:45 minutes into the song one can imagine hearing an angelic choir soothing you and offering the promise of comfort and peace. Song 4 "The Letheon Men" could easily be the "Borgs" when they appear in their cubes in a Star Trek episode. You can almost hear them say "you will surrender, resistence is futile", indeed. I think this is my favorite cut of the entire CD.

If you are of a mind to get high on music and want something really exotic and erotic, then this CD will do it to you. On every level.