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Sales Rank: 95252
Category: Music
Artist: Patrick O'hearn
Publisher: Patrick O'Hearn
Studio: Patrick O'Hearn
Manufacturer: Patrick O'Hearn
Label: Patrick O'Hearn
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1005
UPC: 804628100520
EAN: 0804628100520
ASIN: B0009ML2U6
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Music For Three Vibraphones | | • | Slow Time | | • | Lets Move On | | • | I Could Live Here | | • | Where We Once Stood | | • | I Remember Now | | • | A Welcome Sight | | • | Still Standing |
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There comes a time in most ambient electronic composers' careers when they head into the abstract. Melody and rhythm are abandoned for a music that explores the timbral and textural possibilities of their instruments. Vangelis did it with with Beauborg, Steve Roach with The Magnificent Void, and the Orb with Orbus Terrarum. Now Patrick O'Hearn follows suit, albeit in a less confrontational style, with a CD that is largely generated by analog electronics, each piece a study in timbral flux and ambient design. Fans of O'Hearn's popular electro-melodicism from Ancient Dreams or deep melancholic washes from Beautiful World will find little to hold onto in Slow Time. The opening "Music for Three Vibraphones" is dedicated to Frank Zappa, though comparisons to Steve Reich will more readily come to mind as O'Hearn spins an undeveloped melodic cycle with vibraphone-like metallic tones. Other pieces move even further afield. With its pinging tones and glissandos, "Let's Move On" wouldn't have been out of place at the Columbia-Princeton electronic music studios of the 1960s. More familiar O'Hearn turf can be found on "I Could Live Now," with its austere hand percussion, thready piano melody, and electro-jungle groove, as well as on "A Welcome Sigh," the only piece that comes close to O'Hearn's patented sound with one of those sublime Satiesque melodies. Slow Time is an album of experiments and departures for this veteran artist. --John Diliberto
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Patrick O'Hearn- Slow Time March 4, 2009
I really have liked and listened to Patrick O'Hearn since the mid 1980's when KMET in LA went "New Age". Now its XM all the time and I can hear cuts from this and other CD's of his on XM 72 "Spa". You can also try Pandora or Slacker also to hear this kind of music. I have all his CD's to this one in my collection and have listened to his transformation to a more Ambient kind of music, which I like very much too. As with just about any artist/CD, some tracks are better than others! I personally think his last two CD's are a bit better overall which is why 4 stars, but if you like this, and his, kind of music to be reading this review I'd say check it out!
 Unfortunate recording problems October 20, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like Patrick O'Hearn and Slow Time is no exception. However, there is some quite noticible recorded distortion. I have been an audiophile for about thirty five years and my system is quite revealing. I admit I have not played the disc in the car or on some lesser equipment where the distortion may not be evident.
I was quite surprised to hear the problem on my primary two channel system and immediately suspected an equipment problem, not the recording. But after some checking, and also playing it back through a dedicated headphone system, I realized (to my relief) that the problem was with the recording and not an equipment failure.
The original production and mastering may have been clean with the problem occuring in CD manufacture but, in any case, my copy is headed for the bin.
Small Change of Pace April 6, 2007
For "Slow Time" Patrick has laid aside his usual sound of bass guitar against synthetic ostinatos, and instead constructed a set of, from the sound of it, computer-generated electronic pieces. They are not so melodic, nor as dynamic as his usual fare. Among the "thanks to" on the cover is Steve Roach, which gives some indication of the direction he's taken.
There are still some infrequent "O'Hearnisms" and the release matches the high production standards of all of his other releases, so past fans will not necessarily be disappointed.
They could be surprised though.
Music that grows on you August 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nothing can top the last 2 CDs of O'Hearn's: Beautiful World & So Flows the Current. Hard to follow a dancing bear!
"Slow Time" the CD is just that, quite mellow, but it grows on you the more you listen to it. My favorite songs are 'Where We Once Stood,' and 'Slow Time.'
O'Hearn is pure quality, even in "slow time" January 18, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Patrick O'Hearn since 1988, well actually since his days with Missing Persons! And although this album is a departure from River's Gonna Rise (his most easy listening) or Between Two Worlds (typical O'Hearn, so melodic) or Ancient Dreams (I believe to be a fav among many fans),I disagree that this album is a departure from his signature style. In fact, in listening to the album and picking it apart song by song, it sounds like it exactly what makes O'Hearn, but at his core.
Granted, Music for Three Vibraphones, for the average listener like me, is a bit hard to capture. I'm just not that musically savvy. I Remember Now reminds me of Devil's Lake (from Indigo) and its darkness leaves me more likely to skip over it.
I find the rest of the tracks to be very much in the style of Patrick O'Hearn - introspective, lush, thoughtful and able to evoke a mood unlike that of any other musical artist. In fact ,IMHO, A Welcome Sight is so compelling, so almost magical, that at each listen I realized that I had stopped whatever I was doing and my mind was drifting along to to someplace -- some mental landscape -- where I had not been before. Other pieces he has written, such as Crossing the Divide, Sacred Heart and Forever the Optimist have produced the same effect on me. That is the gift and creativity of Patrick O'Hearn.
If you're a new listener, start with his first two albums or a "best of" before you try Slow Time. If you're a fan, don't let this one go by without a deep listen.
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