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Paul Ellis
Manufacturer: Hypnos Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00005R618
Release Date: 2001-10-16
Editorial Reviews Working within a theme of the exploration of the ocean's depths (see the title), Ellis takes the listener on a nearly exhausting musical roller-coaster of pulsing arpeggios, cascading mechanistic sequences, lilting melodic passages, and gradually to brief interludes, before cranking the energy level up again. Definitely not for people who hate synthesizers that sound like synthesizers!
Into the Liquid Unknown
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Paul Ellis is one of the few space-music synthesizer players to break the gravitational pull of mid-1970s Tangerine Dream, while still remaining true to those roots. Ellis is a member of the Oregon-based group Dweller at the Threshold, and his German space-music roots are evident in the analog-sounding synth patterns, but he does something more with them. He drops the rolling 4/4 sequencer patterns and smothering synth string pads that most space musicians still use to bludgeon you into submission (and cover a lack of anything musical happening, such as rhythm, melody, or structure). Instead, Ellis uses his swirling sequencer patterns to send you into deep layers of morphing lines and themes. The 13-minute title track alone is a minor key masterpiece that seems to constantly reinvent itself as contrapuntal sequencer patterns transmute through a maze of filters and processes. Ellis isn't just trying to create a dream state, he's guiding you through the sights of a strange and compelling world. --John Diliberto
About the Artist
Paul Ellis is one of three members (with Dave Fulton and John Duval) of Dweller at the Threshold. Their third album Ouroborus was recently released on Hypnos/Binary. Into the Liquid Unknown is Paul's second solo album.
Album Description
Using a dash of classic European e-music as a reference point, but never for a minute sounding like an artist exploring any path buts Ellis's own, INTO THE LIQUID UNKNOWN supplies that modern synth music "fix" for listeners who remember their excitement at first hearing Wendy Carlos, Jean-Michel Jarre, Synergy, or early Tangerine Dream... but for people who already own all those albums and don't want to hear them re-done. Like the first albums of Alpha Wave Movement and Synthetic Block, this album utilizes just the right limited measure of "classic" and moves on from there to create something new.
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Into the Liquid Unknown
Paul Ellis Manufacturer: Hypnos Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00005R618 Release Date: 2001-10-16 |
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Into the Liquid Unknown
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
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| Alternative Rock
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
General
| New Age
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00005O0PC Release Date: 2001-07-28 |
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Amazon.com
Paul Ellis is one of the few space-music synthesizer players to break the gravitational pull of mid-1970s Tangerine Dream, while still remaining true to those roots. Ellis is a member of the Oregon-based group Dweller at the Threshold, and his German space-music roots are evident in the analog-sounding synth patterns, but he does something more with them. He drops the rolling 4/4 sequencer patterns and smothering synth string pads that most space musicians still use to bludgeon you into submission (and cover a lack of anything musical happening, such as rhythm, melody, or structure). Instead, Ellis uses his swirling sequencer patterns to send you into deep layers of morphing lines and themes. The 13-minute title track alone is a minor key masterpiece that seems to constantly reinvent itself as contrapuntal sequencer patterns transmute through a maze of filters and processes. Ellis isn't just trying to create a dream state, he's guiding you through the sights of a strange and compelling world. --John DilibertoAlbum Description
Using a dash of classic European e-music as a reference point, but never for a minute sounding like an artist exploring any path buts Ellis's own, INTO THE LIQUID UNKNOWN supplies that modern synth music "fix" for listeners who remember their excitement at first hearing Wendy Carlos, Jean-Michel Jarre, Synergy, or early Tangerine Dream... but for people who already own all those albums and don't want to hear them re-done. Like the first albums of Alpha Wave Movement and Synthetic Block, this album utilizes just the right limited measure of "classic" and moves on from there to create something new.Working within a theme of the exploration of the ocean's depths (see the title), Ellis takes the listener on a nearly exhausting musical roller-coaster of pulsing arpeggios, cascading mechanistic sequences, lilting melodic passages, and gradually to brief interludes, before cranking the energy level up again. Definitely not for people who hate synthesizers that sound like synthesizers!
Customer Reviews:
An above average New Age CD.......2006-05-10
Fantastic journey into the unknown.......2003-10-10
A Great, beautiful CD!!!.......2003-02-14
May not be for everyone, but sure sounds sweet to these ears.......2002-12-28
You may want to think twice about buying this disc........2002-03-09
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