Pentamorous Metamorphosis [Import]

Global Communication | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 1998)
• Format: Import
• Label: Daisy Dog
• ASIN: B000006C9U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,353 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alpha Phase

2. Beta Phase

3. Gamma Phase

4. Delta Phase

5. Epsilon Phase

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making a silk purse from a sow's ear, October 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pentamorous Metamorphosis (Audio CD)

I originally picked up this CD in '94 in a discount bin - it came in a promo-like cardboard sleeve and cost me all of $1.99. I had liked Chapterhouse's "Pearl" single and figured,"what the hell, it's cheap", so I snapped it up. Upon first listen, I was dismayed to find it sounded nothing like Chapterhouse. I turned it off quickly and wrote it off as a loss. That night, as was my habit, I left my CD player on as I slept, forgetting that I had left this disc in one of the 5 slots; at about 3am I woke up to the segue from Beta Phase into Gamma Phase and did not go back to sleep. Finishing the disc off and starting it over again, I realized that I had gotten the bargain of the year- it was an amazing exercise in beauty. The next day, I went out and bought the source album ("Blood Music" by Chapterhouse) and listened to it. It, in a word, sucked. The transformation of a boring album into a five-part symphony (hence the name "Pentamerous Metamorphosis") of achingly gorgeous ambience was truly a work of sonic alchemy. Buy this CD. Buy 76:14 as well. You won't be sorry.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, August 2, 2001

By 

Kenneth G. Sodergren "dfwatc17c" (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentamerous Metamorphosis (Audio CD)

An outstanding album. Ambient music at it's best. "Epsilon Phase" is one of the most moving pieces of music I have ever heard. This album is ambient at it's best. It needs to be re-released.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite ambient albums..., December 23, 2002

By 

Gus "Zonik" (Reykjavik, Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pentamerous Metamorphosis (Audio CD)

Global Communications just go it right on this one. This is a perfect mix of floating ambient with a bit of a slow deep electronic beat in it.. I would not be surprised to meet the band members; Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton in a party with Brian Eno.

If you like ambient, then you definitely need to invest in this album.