I put on my headphones, put on woob, and close my eyes. The music is a story, a journey of pictures in color, with an interesting cast of characters. The sounds of the birds, middle eastern vocals, and the other variations. The sounds are very much three and four dimensional, maybe more, and the transitions are as seamless as they can get. It's only limited by ones imagination being represented by the music. Putting this together was genius and probably lots of time and creating. I'm happy with it.

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Leslie Light

On Earth is my favorite and the reason I purchased this album after I ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2015

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Moody, dark, delightful, intriguing...all rolled into one album. On Earth is my favorite and the reason I purchased this album after I heard it on Soma Radio a few days ago.

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Happy Shopping

TOO EXPENSIVE CD ~~~!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2015

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My only problem with this Cd why it cost so expensive? I guess the artist is very poor needs the money?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2014

Very good...

It's not music. It's food for the ears.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2008

I went through the craziest stuff to get my copy of Woob1194. Suffice it to say, I don't know how or when I first heard Woob, but when I heard it the second time, my consciousness said something to the effect of, "That AGAIN! What is it?!" That was...years ago.

If you're reading this, good luck finding a copy. They're not common. But, if you do, Woob1194 is worth the quest.

Don't expect weird or creepy or psychotic. Woob is real, thoughtful, clever music...without melody or apparent pattern. The best way to describe this collection is like sucking on one of those multi-flavored jawbreakers that have a different taste for each layer. Some layers go quickly, some go slow - some taste good, some taste different, some not-so-good, but you don't want to spit it out.

My favorite cut is Odonna - when the Gregorian chant-like-stuff-things come in, wherever you want to "be," you're "there" instantly. Paul Frankland (the mind behind Woob) is as close to a musician as a graphic designer will ever be, and/or vice versa.

All the five-stars here are genuine, no doubt. Mine is.

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Ireneusz J. Wojcik

Woob 1194

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2005

I got my copy for $80 on ebay. I thought to myself, "whatever," people are probably exaggerating, like they usually are. I put the CD in (shuffle mode, "Wuub" came first), went about my business, music started, beat kicked in, and I stopped. Seemed that everything stopped. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing -- no music, no movie has ever had such an impact on me. I believe I just stood there with my mouth open, a chill run through me, I looked at my arms and saw I was covered in goose bumps. This CD is something else. It is out of this world. There is a spooky quality to it, but it does not mean that it is devilish. Just something eerie, something weird and beautiful at the same time, something extremely powerful. I half expected a UFO to be flying outside my window. In fact I think I actually looked out for one. And to think that it is from 1994. I have plenty of Ambient CDs by some of the leading artists of today -- none of them come even close to Woob 1194. It's as if it was recorded on another planet by some advanced, higher intelligence and then thrown on Earth to confuse all those that listen to it. It is more than ambient, more than trip-hop, more than chill -- it is all of it plus some unexplained subconscious 'something' that will put your senses through such a spin that you will have a new outlook on music. On top of it all -- I now want a pet Penguin.

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skytwo

Best ambient ever....?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2003

I was pleased to see that this album had a perfect five-star rating. I can't think of any other album in the genre that deserves the same. If you know your stuff, then you know that this is perhaps the most highly-regarded album of its kind ever. And there's a very good reason for that. Paul Frankland has created one of the most consistently appealing ambient albums in existence. However, this isn't just shoe-gazing mellowness. 'On Earth' and 'odonna' each have their share of driving beats and brilliant samples. In addition to the Middle Eastern tinged-sounds, Frankland has some of the strangest, yet most haunting, selection of vocal samples in the business, ranging from 'The Abyss' to 'Star Trek' to 'Mississippi Burning.' Oh, and that show 'Quantum Leap.' Strange, to be certain, but effective.
The album is also a great introduction to ambient, ambient dub, etc. If you're curious, but afraid to just choose something, you can't go wrong with this. Several acquaintances of mine who swore up and down that they weren't interested in electronic music have added this album to their collections after hearing juts a few minutes of it. Best of all, it's aging incredibly well. That seems to be a pretty tall order for most electronic outfits, but this still sounds fresh next to current releases. And I say that after playing it fairly regularly for the last five years.
An absolute must. No, really.

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Billy Pilgrim

An ambient classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2006

Ok. So. I picked this up about ten years ago, when I first started listening to ambient. At the time, I hadn't heard it, and didn't know what to expect; after my first listen, I was instantly hooked. It was, and still is, totally unique, and I hadn't (and still haven't) heard anything like it. Original, organic, and full of surprises. Anyway, a few months after I got it, it was stolen out of my car, along with about a dozen other cd's. This was the only one I bothered to replace (I was lucky enough to find it online for $12). Good thing I did, considering the astronomical prices this is now fetching on eBay.

But that is almost beside the point; those lucky enough to own this cd have more than just a valuable collectible. This isn't just a cd, it's an experience. An event, even. So much warmth, humanity, and life. One of those rare releases that creates its own world, sucks you into that world, and won't let you leave. Not that you'd want to.

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