Customer Reviews

Relax with...Majestic Canyon Echoes

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The "Relax with..." series of Environments is the largest entry into the Ambient Backgrounds field which I've seen in the last few years. Piggybacking on the success of the original Syntonic Research, Inc.'s series from the early '70's and Rykodisc's Atmosphere Collection (to name only two major ventures), this NY-state-based series is large (about 50 titles so far); is half "music enhanced," half "pure"; is disarmingly inexpensive...features some of the worst-written and least informative liner notes I've ever seen (one incorrectly using lie/lay); and is variable in quality from disc to disc. Amazingly, however, most of the discs are rather good-much better than any of the comparably-priced CDs I've tried.

This is one of my least favorites in the "Relax with..." series. To me, the bird sounds seem artifical, mixed by a bored audio engineer who kept pressing buttons to create new sounds with echoes. Silence separates cries, so the continuity which is usual with Ambient Recordings is lost here, which I found annoying. My wife, however, didn't mind the silence and somewhat liked the bird cries, so I rated this 3 rather than 1 or 2 (which I might have done left to my own devices).

The "Relax with..." series of Environments is the largest entry into the Ambient Backgrounds field which I've seen in the last few years. Piggybacking on the success of the original Syntonic Research, Inc.'s series from the early '70's and Rykodisc's Atmosphere Collection (to name only two major ventures), this NY-state-based series is large (about 50 titles so far); is half "music enhanced," half "pure"; is disarmingly inexpensive...features some of the worst-written and least informative liner notes I've ever seen (one incorrectly using lie/lay); and is variable in quality from disc to disc. Amazingly, however, most of the discs are rather good-much better than any of the comparably-priced CDs I've tried.

This is one of my least favorites in the "Relax with..." series. To me, the bird sounds seem artifical, mixed by a bored audio engineer who kept pressing buttons to create new sounds with echoes. Silence separates cries, so the continuity which is usual with Ambient Recordings is lost here, which I found annoying. My wife, however, didn't mind the silence and somewhat liked the bird cries, so I rated this 3 rather than 1 or 2 (which I might have done left to my own devices).