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- Date Released: April 18, 2006
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Kompakt
Yes, it makes for a great bedtime soundtrack, but this captivating album also demands daylight rewinds.
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We Say...
The title may sound dreary and grammatically clumsy, but Music to Fall Asleep is anything but. Produced by Sebastian Meissner (Random Inc., Bizz Circuits) under the alias reserved for his nominally "ambient" releases, the album does, in fact, make a wonderfully soothing bedtime soundtrack, but its richness of detail and powerful subconscious tug invite, and perhaps demand, daylight rewinds. Clearly influenced by Brian Eno's Music for Airports, Meissner sends lone guitar plucks spinning into an ether of dub delay and digital effects. His pacing owes much to Harold Budd's measured, fluid sense of tempo, using echo and reverb to slow the apparent passage of time, but his tones are pure 21st century: like Fennesz, Meissner uses his computer not as an instrument of precision, but rather as a means for smearing sound into a scratchy, resonant haze. Acoustic guitars creep like morning glory over sampled strings; sometimes, ghostly vocals or piano seem to murmur in the background, but ultimately it's almost impossible to determine the specifics contributing to Klimek's rolling, wind-tunnel drone. Impossible, at least, when awake: listened to horizontally, this captivating album unlocks a world of hypnagogic logic.
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They Say...
For the earliest releases in the Klimek catalog, the sound was consistent and warm in tone. Shimmering guitars and hints of washes and percussion were the order of the day, with a constant focus on getting lost in a relaxing state and soaking the sound in. But after a while the sound became too predictable and stagnant. To rectify this problem, Klimek released the vinyl-only Listen, the Snow Is Falling, with a drastically altered direction that sounded as promising as anything the pop/ambient portion of Kompakt had to offer in quite some time. But with Music to Fall Asleep, the sound, and unfortunately the song, all too often remains the same. The cavernous delay present, which was once the highlight of a fresh sound, makes a re-appearance, and like a pestering mother-in-law who outstays her welcome, stays in place and gets way too comfortable too often. Overlooking this notion is an exercise in listening patience, but even then Klimek on its worst day is better than most ambient artists on their best. Music to Fall Asleep is 11 songs of Klimek expanding on patterns and blueprints that were hinted at on Milk and Honey, but it's most certainly more haunting and reliant on more instrumentation this time around. It's also a lot more dissonant and haunting than Milk and Honey but nothing Klimek fanatics certainly won't revel in. Not the best Kompakt ambient release, but certainly not the worst, either.
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| 01. |  |
Verbunden - Pathways To Work |
3:20 |
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| 02. | |
Accompaning Guilty Thoughts Of Unautorized Candy - Heimatlos |
4:40 |
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| 03. | |
Standing On The Beach - Ausser Gefahr |
5:17 |
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| 04. | |
Yuppies With Jeeps - Working Towards Independence |
5:02 |
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| 05. | |
Kingdoms Here We Come - Wiggin´by Night |
4:31 |
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| 06. | |
In Limbo - Elastisch |
6:05 |
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| 07. | |
Music To Fall Asleep |
7:41 |
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| 08. | |
New Deal - Vintage Warmer |
5:07 |
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| 09. | |
White, No Trails - Verlust Der Motorik |
8:47 |
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| 10. | |
Celluloid - Catalyst |
2:55 |
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| 11. | |
Kälteschäden - Wärmetod |
5:42 |
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| 12. | |
Les Mots D´amour - Hinweg |
6:08 |
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12 Total Tracks, 65:15 Total Length
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