Of & the

Illusion Of Safety | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Soleilmoon
• ASIN: B00000363P
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #894,392 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Puer

2. Playground

3. Erosion

4. P.O.E.

5. Lilt

Disc: 2

1. Immerse

2. Clearing

3. Center

4. Holding

5. No Thing

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Immersion in Sound, January 17, 2007

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dream factory (Triangulum, M33) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of & the (Audio CD)

Somewhere in their musical experimentation Burke & Klein discovered this heavy masculine atmosphere. Synthesized with modulated drones and reverberations these lenthy compositions are redused to a few divisions of sound. Both harmonious and dissonant an equivocal depth has been achieved with a minimum of condiment. (You must listen to these pieces at a higher volume setting. They shall certainly draw you in.) In "Immerse" the listener is absourbed by a tornadic overwhelming brooding wall of sound. Dark acidic winds on a high empty plateau blow through "Holding". In "P.O.E." you are engulfed in a bulbous droning cloud. This is not decorative music. Instead OF & THE is a sound tide blanketing your surroundings. The graphic foldout is appropriately a wall of water. This lengthy double CD collection is a masterpiece of experimental ambient minimalism.