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Sales Rank: 3896
Category: Music
Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
Publisher: Domino
Studio: Domino
Manufacturer: Domino
Label: Domino
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45
UPC: 801390004520
EAN: 0801390004520
ASIN: B0007LLOVG
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Knuddlemaus | | • | Between Us and Them | | • | Passing By | | • | Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn | | • | Nobody's Home | | • | Molfsee |
Disc 2
| • | Sunday Evening in Your Street | | • | Suddenly the Trees | | • | Nothing Happens in June | | • | As If You've Never Been Away | | • | Crazy For You | | • | Wherever You Are |
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Album Description
The long-awaited domestic release of Ulrich's dreamy 2001 debut. His 2004 set, "Strangely Isolated Place" was a hit with shoegazer and electronic fans alike, and toured with much fanfare in support of M83. Includes a 6-track bonus EP of non-LP material
Amazon.com
Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist who is influenced by forebears like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk--but unlike retro-space artists, he doesn't sound like he just emerged from their dusty studios after being marooned there for 30 years. Instead, his synthesizers bristle with contemporary electro-rhythms, a bit of New Wave romanticism, and melodies you want to last forever. Schnauss has perfected a balance between quiet yearning and joyful heroism in his music, with sweeping major-chord progressions that are triumphal without being ostentatious, expansive without being pompous. For someone who is so rhythm-centered with crackling snares and electro-glitches, it's ultimately the melodies that draw you in, turned on glistening, bell-like timbres and space-organ sustains. Far Away Trains Passing By is actually his first album, released in Europe in 2001, but it's been out of print and is being issued in the United States for the first time. The reissue comes with a bonus CD that includes six pieces pulled from various Schnauss side projects and tracks that didn't make the original album. Far Away Trains Passing By is electronica with a melancholy soul, and it has lost nothing in the intervening years. --John Diliberto
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Strangely emotional music June 2, 2009
Ulrich Schnauss' shamelessly melodic debut at times comes very close to the ideal of producing electronic music that still provokes a hefty emotional response, without forcing you to hop up and down like a rabid mongoose. In that regard you can't get much better than "Suddenly The Trees Are Given", which starts very calmly but halfway through suddenly cuts into one of the most emotional moments I have ever heard in any electronic track, bar none. Wow.
 Train ride to dreams May 19, 2009
The track "Between us and them" was my favorite. While the other tracks conjured dreamscapes passing by little windows, and the constant clickity-clack rocked me into a trance, that song made me nod my head.
Calming, rhythmic tones May 8, 2009
If Pandora's ambient music channel is somehow unavailable, it seems like any music by Ulrich Schnauss will fit the bill easily.
Peaceful and quiet... Great electronica! April 17, 2009
As a new fan of Ulrich Schnauss, I have never heard a more relaxing and soothing mix. It offers a nostalgic feeling, along with hints of nature and rustic scenes.
The only issue I can think of is that it constantly has me on my toes; the music never really climaxes, but instead it just keeps shifting.
classical chill April 5, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i stumbled onto schnauss as a recommendation spawned from another purchase, and shortly picked up all his disks. john diliberto's (amazon) review strikes me as accurate and justly appreciative. schnauss's music has an overall sheen and slickness that disguises some very carefully worked out musical details, hidden in plain view within its minimalist musical ideas and synthetic instrumental textures. the music sometimes seems near to veer into eurotrash hipness and urbanity, or discotrash superficiality, or just plain brainless electronica, but it avoids those hazards by means of a slowly evolving musical landscape that is embued with optimism, warmth and an unpretentious musical integrity.
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