Copia

Eluvium

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2007)
• Original Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Temporary Residence
• ASIN: B000MDH88C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,414 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "On the twofold abundance of expressions and ideas", March 5, 2007

By	leopold - See all my reviews

Not knowing the meaning of the word, I decided to look it up.
The music contained within this disc perfectly coincides.
One can always trust matthew cooper to tag his releases with intriguing titles, to say the least.

This release is quite different from past eluvium releases. Gone are the glacial, atmospheric walls of guitar ambience. what we have here is a contemporary collection of pieces in relatively classical style, which is quite fresh, considering what else is going in the ambient world. Nearly all organic and orchestral instrumentation. songs are not as long (which I miss a bit), but this album is every bit as painstakingly beautiful as any eluvium release, just in a different manner. Not just "beautiful" in the sense of the annoying tag seemingly given to every record in the ambient/post rock genre, but this record contains truly transcedental beauty. Cooper's music always possesses a unique sense of honesty and meekness, making it instantly recognizable...despite it being nothing extremely groudbreaking or venturing into uncommon harmonic territory. this man is a master of tonal music. There is nothing "pretentionus" about this record. Pick up this record and be enlightened, comforted, and entranced by simplicity.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of 2007: Equal parts Stars of the Lid, Hammock and movie score sound..., July 1, 2007

By	Manny Hernandez "Author of Ning For Dummies" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

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When I first picked up "Copia" by Eluvium, I wasn't immediately in love with it, but there was something about the sound in it that I could not remove myself from.

Over time, the album has grown in me and I've found myself playing it endlessly without even noticing. If you are a fan of movie scores, you will love it. But so will you if you enjoy the music of Stars of the Lid or Hammock. It's not ambient, it's not new age, it's not drone music: it's all of the above at the same time.

After giving it a few listens, it crept up to my list of best albums in 2007.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another homerun for this overlooked Portland genius, March 20, 2007

By	F. Enderle "RAMNUTS!" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Amazingly soothing melodies, ambient, spacy and blissful without any of that nagging New Age vacuousness. My wife really enjoys this disc and she is vocally quite critical of the Fripp loops, Windy and Carl, Eno and other similar output from the same general genre. This has been on constant rotation in my car changer for over a month and I have no intention of pulling it out anytime soon.