fading daydreams

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Piano based new age/ dark classical compositions. Perfect for reading or a cup or green tea.

fading daydreams
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fading daydreams

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | New Age | Styles | Music
General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000055YV9
Release Date: 2000-10-30

karmic law
distance relationship
return period
borealis
fading daydreams
7:12
she's asleep in my arms
march of leaves
swan
thoughts of grandfather
yet another tragic love affair

Album Description

Piano based new age/ dark classical compositions. Perfect for reading or a cup or green tea.

Customer Reviews:

From STARVOX.NET.......2001-06-16

Rarely do I have the chance to review a CD quite like this. “Fading Daydreams” is a lengthy piano driven work by composer Benjamin Stauffer. Despite being released on the recently formed Chicago indie rock label Somnimage Records, this CD is a straightforward neo-classical work of art. Utterly romantic and soothing, the CD ghosts its way through lush piano instrumentals, thickened by subtle new age synth backdrops. Stauffer dedicates the entire work to his late grandfather, and there is a heartbreaking beauty and passion in every key that is struck. There is a dense reverberation and haunting production, which adds a slight ethereal edge to the contemporary classical style. It is indeed a very relaxing CD, but rather than being just background music, it is very arresting and you find yourself drawn into the music, stopping whatever you are doing to appreciate it rather than mindlessly allowing it to play. “Fading Daydreams” has the power to capture and hold your attention, and will animate the mind with suitably pensive images. Granted, you have to have an appreciation for this kind of music. This is not Gothic, Alternative, Metal, or Electronic music, and it could not at all be considered Gothic Ethereal. However the consistent melancholy and grayness of Stauffer’s music would definitely appeal to dark music fans that have an appreciation for traditional classical music as well. The closing track “Yet Another Tragic Love Affair” has a tasteful use of church bells accentuating the left-hand bass chords of the song, and there is a gloomy film score element pervading the song, which was quite cool. I highly recommend this CD for those cold winter evenings ahead or the rainy Sunday afternoons when lethargy hits and the stress of the proceeding week desperately needs to be dissolved.

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