Strangely Isolated Place

Ulrich Schnauss | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Domino
• ASIN: B0002CHK18
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,744 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gone Forever

2. On My Own

3. A Letter from Home

4. Monday - Paracetamol

5. Clear Day

6. Blumenthal

7. In All the Wrong Places

8. A Strangely Isolated Place

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sunsets Put To Music, December 29, 2006

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Mark Eremite "This Is A Display Model Only" (Seoul, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strangely Isolated Place (Audio CD)

In the past (before I listened to this record) whenever I heard someone describe an album or artist as "lush" (see M83) or "noise driven" (see My Bloody Valentine) or "ethereal" (see Boards of Canada), I usually just hummed and nodded in half-acknowledged understanding. Those are pretty ambiguous adjectives, I used to think.

Now I get it.

In this album, Ulrich Schnause uses broad, rushing sweeps of sound (think static, think airplanes taking off, think blood pumping in your ears) to make some of the most evocative music I have heard in a long time. If not ever.

This is an album that is supremely bittersweet, sandwiching layer upon layer of honest emotion between rich, achingly beautiful chords. Driven by a pulse that is strong but never insistent and colored by a hue that is subtle but impossible to ignore, this album exemplifies everything that the words "lush," "noise driven," and "ethereal" could ever possibly mean. If I didn't think it would devalue (and ultimately demean) the record, I would try to explain the heart-breaking beauty of each and every song on this CD. As it is, I'll just say that every song is just as gorgeous as the next, and the sum total is something that is quite seriously a work of art and a treasure to own.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A place I've never been, November 18, 2004

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Pack1980 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strangely Isolated Place (Audio CD)

I have been a fan of Electronica for over 10 years and have kept up with pretty much every new sound that has come out in that time span. I have never heard anything so beautiful in my entire life as I did the day I picked up this album. I was driving in my car just flipping thru songs to catch the intros as a lot of us may do when we buy a new CD. It was different this time in that I found myself getting drawn into every song that I flipped to. I can only say that this album took my mind to a place that I have never been to, as far as emotions that is. I listen to a lot of my music in my car as I drive and just like to chill and think. Most of the time I will put on some MOBY, BT, Orbital, or Hooverphonic, all great music if I may add, to chill out. I popped this album in the CD player and it gave me an awesome sense of emotion. All the songs are top notch. If you let each song play thru, you will hear different beats and sounds come up all the way to the end of each song. Every song changes from start to beginning. One song stuck to me though and that was song number 6. ("Bluementhal") This one song made me feel a way I've never felt before. It moved me in an awesome way. I thought of everything from my childhood to my wife to my family to everything that brought joy in my life. I know this sounds corny, but it's the truth. I will never forget this feeling as long as I have this song and the CD to listen to. Pop it in the old CD player on a long ride, or perhaps even when you're lonely and need something to help you get by. I hope everyone can get these same feelings that I have gotten while listening to this CD. If not, keep looking because I know Electronica has always helped me out in life and it will help you too. This CD is a perfect example of it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a lavishly painted landscape, May 13, 2007

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I. Nedvalyuk "digifruitella" (dale city, virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strangely Isolated Place (Audio CD)

First of all, I discovered about Ulrich back in, I believe 2003 when Nick Warren was coming out with Global Underground Reykjavik, I believe his track Nobody's Home was on that compilation, as soon as I heard it I knew I had to look up this artist. I have to tell, ever since discovering about him he has NOT disappointed me. This guy is like the Beethoven of Ambient. I know some OR most will not or MIGHT not agree with that statement, but I just have not heard anybody come close to the music he creates. This guy does not just make music, he paints landscapes. Certain tracks that he makes (Monday - Paracetamol, Clear Day, Strangely Isolated Place) for instance, just sound so beautiful that I feel like I can't take it. I feel like that guy from "American Beauty" talking about "beauty in the world" It just all sounds so unbearably beautiful what Ulrich does with melodies. It's like he is capable of taking you on a trip with lavish landscapes - taking you out of the ordinary world and placing you in an extraordinary one. It's a ride that you never want to end. That ONE hour that is A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE is like an escape from reality - one that is just hard to describe simply by words - you have to HEAR it. It's an unforgettable experience. I have listened to so much music in my lifetime, especially anything that has to do with IDM or simply electronic, and Ulrich Schnauss is the ONE man that made me feel something special. His music is so powerful in this album (a lot more intense than FAT) that it invokes feelings in you that you might have never thought music would possibly do to you. I am really lost for words just like the dozens of people that already posted. This is like one of those albums you simply don't even NEED to hear a 30 second sample of.

10/10

I think this album will be remembered for ages to come and will be studied in the future. Masterpiece.