Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue (1992)
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1992 / Genre: Ambient - Experimental / 4AD Records - U.K.
Timeless and universal album that has to be heard by any serious music lover..
Michael Brook is an innovative and excellent musician; he has made wonderful albums.
"Cobalt Blue" is such an album that has to be heard by any serious music lover.
This vinyl version has an - audiophile recording - quality with some beautiful "surround" effects.
Your "listening experience" is optimal when you listen in the late evening with dimmed lights.
Allmusic.com: 4,5/5
"Cobalt Blue" is such an album that has to be heard by any serious music lover.
This vinyl version has an - audiophile recording - quality with some beautiful "surround" effects.
Your "listening experience" is optimal when you listen in the late evening with dimmed lights.
Allmusic.com: 4,5/5
Review:
-Beautiful and Haunted-
I discovered Michael Brook's wonderful `Ultramarine' on the soundtrack album to the film HEAT
and I was entranced by it, so much so that I tracked down `Cobalt Blue'.
This album brought forward a whole new dimension of music to me.
One moment strangely haunting the next peculiarily jaunty and yet always incredibly beautiful.
A joy for the ear, a pleasure for the mind. Imagine your most idyllic place and be transported there.
I found mine at the heart of this incredible album. `Breakdown'.
I don't know if Michael Brook refers to it in car, song or mental form but all fit.
Several of the pieces are tinged with `Ultramarine' and ultimately I'm led there.
There are elements that can be related to Ry Cooder, others to Tangerine Dream's `LA Parc'.
And yet they are also so different. There are haunting touches of Cajun music and
arabic vocals pulling this listener from the misty swamps around New Orleans to the evening
skies above the silhouetted pyramids…. As in all music there is a story to be heard.
I'm not sure what that story is just yet. The language is new and very different from any other
I have known before.
I think out of the many albums I possess, this one is set to become an all time favourite,
one I can call on again and again and yet each time I do I think I'll find something unique.
Cobalt Blue is a unique CD which deserves attention. Simply inchanting and mesmerising wonderful.
review: Amazon.com
-Beautiful and Haunted-
I discovered Michael Brook's wonderful `Ultramarine' on the soundtrack album to the film HEAT
and I was entranced by it, so much so that I tracked down `Cobalt Blue'.
This album brought forward a whole new dimension of music to me.
One moment strangely haunting the next peculiarily jaunty and yet always incredibly beautiful.
A joy for the ear, a pleasure for the mind. Imagine your most idyllic place and be transported there.
I found mine at the heart of this incredible album. `Breakdown'.
I don't know if Michael Brook refers to it in car, song or mental form but all fit.
Several of the pieces are tinged with `Ultramarine' and ultimately I'm led there.
There are elements that can be related to Ry Cooder, others to Tangerine Dream's `LA Parc'.
And yet they are also so different. There are haunting touches of Cajun music and
arabic vocals pulling this listener from the misty swamps around New Orleans to the evening
skies above the silhouetted pyramids…. As in all music there is a story to be heard.
I'm not sure what that story is just yet. The language is new and very different from any other
I have known before.
I think out of the many albums I possess, this one is set to become an all time favourite,
one I can call on again and again and yet each time I do I think I'll find something unique.
Cobalt Blue is a unique CD which deserves attention. Simply inchanting and mesmerising wonderful.
review: Amazon.com
Track List
- 01 Shona Bridge
02 Breakdown
03 Red Shift/Skip Wave/Slipstream
04 Andean
05 Slow Breakdown
06 Ultramarine
07 Urbana
08 Lakbossa
09 Ten
10 Hawaii
Linn Lingo LP 12
Ittok LV II arm
Ortofon MC 20 Super II Cartridge
Accuphase C11 MC phono-pre
van den Hul "the Second" interlink
Tascam US 144 ADC
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