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A Strangely Isolated Place | 
| Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
Label: Domino
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 11141
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 32
UPC: 801390003226
EAN: 0801390003226
ASIN: B0002CHK18
Release Date: October 5, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Gone Forever | | • | On My Own | | • | A Letter From Home | | • | Monday - Paracetamol | | • | Clear Day | | • | Blumenthal | | • | In The Wrong Place | | • | A Strangely Isolated Place |
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Ulrich Schnauss's A Strangely Isolated Place was released in Europe during May of 2003, but fans had to wait over a year for it to arrive on these shores. The Berliner's follow-up to Far Away Trains Passing By is another gentle and fascinating record, similarly drunk with melody. But Schnauss has augmented his electro-synth sound with tsunamis of huge, arching major chords that rival M83's over-the-top lushness. Shoegazer influences show up in the Slowdive-esque "Gone Forever," as well as the My Bloody Valentine buzz in "Clear Day". Despite Place's ethereal sheen, the bones of solid dance-ability are also here, as several clever DJs have already noted (see Sasha's use of "On My Own" for Involver). The record could use a few well-placed batches of noise to act as counterpoint, but long-suffering fans of early Cocteau Twins looking for a fix of dreamy songcraft should find much to love. --Matthew Cooke
Album Description
The domestic version of Schnauss' second album, originally released by Berlin/Manchester's City Centre Offices in May '03. Fuses the ambient electronics of Eno & Boards of Canada with Slowdive & My Bloody Valentine, with an emphasis on melody.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
Sunsets Put To Music December 29, 2006
Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
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.
Mysterious, Haunting, Eerily Familiar December 12, 2005
Simeon Hein (www.OpeningMinds.info, Boulder, CO, USA)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
This album is sure to find a special place in your heart. Schnaus' melodies have a way of getting under your skin. They will remind of places you have been a long time ago. It's almost as if Schnaus were talking to the listener through music. Some of the songs are uplifting, others have a more classic "chill" sound. Either way, you are bound to find this CD intriguing and beautiful. It makes good listening in almost any context.
(Simeon Hein is the author of OPENING MINDS and PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE and composer of the CDs EARTH DREAMING and OPENING SKIES.)
A place I've never been November 19, 2004
Pack1980
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
strangely addictive March 24, 2006
N. goodey (new york, USA)
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
rather like campfire headphase this is an album you just continually find yourself playing and gradually loving...
if you have any sense of smile or style...musically speaking April 14, 2005
Lane A. Wagner (planet earth)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
listen, (no pun intentended) if you favor smooth, delicious, music that will take your aural system and your soul to a different dimension.... then I personally suggest purchasing this sonic architecture of beautiful imagery via the ear canal that translates itself through the very core of the region of one's brain that facilitates aural soundscapes that conjure and produce a feeling that everything is going to be alright...especially if your fond of wondering what it would be like to be without a body to hinder your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, etc. in this over-commercialized, mediocre, sometimes mundane existance as a mere mortal. This fine artist of musical splendor provides relief, solace, and in certain situations...extrememe physical pleasure. The original notes of music passed down thru the millenia of time stimulate our half-barren souls to arise and awaken to search and hopefully find the essence of life that belies each and every heartbeat of our very existance.
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