Night Garden [Import]

Waldeck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: E-Magine Records
• ASIN: B00005IAH0
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,176 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Slowly

2. The Night Garden

3. Tears Running Dry

4. Waiting

5. Fallen Angel

6. Cat People Dub

7. Floater

8. I Talk to the Wind

9. It Comes from You

10. Morning Light

11. This Isn't Maybe

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A cross between portishead and massive attack, January 2, 2002

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"solarpiranha" (Phoenix) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Garden (Audio CD)

If you are in the mood for slowing down and feeling like doing something illegal, than this is the album for you. The kind of music you would hear in a weird kinda movie like the Lost Highway. Moody female vocals with emotional lyrics and dark beats (like portishead), and dubby basslines like (Massive Attack). There are a few tracks with cheesy male vocals which kinda kills the nice even flow of the cd, but it still accomplishes its objective of creating an erotic, slow down hibernation mode. If you like Portishead, Massive Attack, and haunting female vocals, you cant go wrong here. Recommended...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lacks originality, November 17, 2004

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T. Bruce (sydney) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Garden (Audio CD)

I was a bit skeptical of Waldeck at first because I though they had borrowed most of their stuff from Massive Attack. While "Balance of The Force" did sound similar to "Protection" or any other trip-hop band of the 90s, Waldeck's music had something different to it. The piano, the synths, the sound effects, the vibes, the interesting beats so overall it was ok. However, "Night Garden" dissapoints because it clearly feels totally copied and obvious: the creepy "Mezzanine" bass lines, the cheezy lyrics "she's at ease with the past and the darkness...fallen angel", "tears running dry years passing by" "...waiting for the light..", a little embarassing at times "putting out the fire with gasoline", the pointless cover of King Crimson's "I talk to the wind". The few appreciable tracks are "slowly" ("angel/dissolved girl") and "floater" ( i.e. black milk).It would have been better if more focus had been placed on research in electronic sounds rather than on the "cliche" singing.The title track although instrumental and pretty is way too unhappenning and the album lacks balance, not leaving much variation between the rest of the tracks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AGAIN WITH THE COMPARISONS!!!, December 15, 2003

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Darrell L. Lee "dlatrell" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Garden (Audio CD)

Leave Waldeck alone!!! Once again, I must come to the defense of an artist who is being ruthlessly compared to other, more well-known groups, ergo Massive Attack/Portishead. As I mentioned in my Zero 7 review defending them against comparisons to Air: Is it really a bad thing to mimic such groups as they--or is it "as them"? It's really impossible to not sound like somebody else in the industry, unless you're going for the downright weird. Given the title "The Night Garden," it's safe to say that Waldeck was going for a darker more sensual late night theme. I played it last night (along with Waldeck's equally amazing "Balance of the Force") and it got me so worked up, I couldn't stand it. And, yeees, there will be more insults of this CD and comparisons to other "mainstream" groups who people believe started the downtempo genre of music, but you have to give Waldeck props for at least taking a familiar sound and making it even more accessible--especially to all the lovers in the house!