Artist: Steve Roach
Title: Structures For Silence
Label: Fortuna Records
Date: 1984
Tracklisting:
1 - Reflections In Suspension (16:39)
2 - Quiet Friend (13:15)
3 - Structures In Silence (28:33)
Review:
1. Reflections In Silence - Starts off the album very quiet and gradually builds up. There is a positive melody that comes in early and sticks with you throughout the track. It is a beautiful song. It makes me feel at least a little content with the world even though the world is fucked up. Violin usage in this one is great.
2. Quiet Friend - Easy beginning. It has it's own uplifting version of happiness. It begs to make a visualize of a peaceful world or a peaceful moment in all of the chaos; inviting you to it, kind of like a friend. About over halfway it changes a bit. Same feelings but with a different tone. Keyboard for a nice little melody.
3. Structures In Silence - Title track and conveniently the longest track of the album. Very slow like the other tracks but it seems to have a much more slower feel to it. It's seems to create this unknown landscape in your mind and you are endlessly wondering through it in a docile state. No animals around, no sentient life. Just endless landscape and you. The average person would find this song boring; then again, they would probably find most ambient boring at that rate. This song is soothing. I might try to listen to it while going to bed. It seems to be very comforting in an ominous way.
Overall Grade: B
Favorite track(s) are all of them really. They all are good in their own ways yet fit together to make a nice soothing sound for a good album.
