favorite selected ambient works 2 track

  Leah said:

  iep said:

'it's like being in a power-generatorstation on acid'...

 

did he seriously say that? that's so spot on.

Have you ever been in a power-generatorstation on acid ?

so, does there not exist a CD release with this Stone in Focus track? i don't know that i've heard it before, and i *know* my copy of SAW2 doesn't include it, but there were multiple presses/issues of the cd, thus multiple versions correct?

There are 3 versions of this release:

The first is the Limited edition brown vinyl version, which contains all 25 tracks, including Stone In Focus.

The next most complete version is the Warp UK CD release and the normal black vinyl release, which contain 24 tracks (Stone In Focus being omitted)

And finally, the least complete version is the Sire Records US CD release, which only has 23 tracks (omitting Stone In Focus AND Hankie)

HOWEVER, Stone In Focus was released on another album: "Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension", in which Stone In Focus was given the name "#19" and appears as track no. 10.

Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension is indeed available on CD. More info can be found here: http://www.discogs.com/release/59922

I'm convinced Rhubarb has healing powers.

  On 8/2/2006 at 4:52 PM, Dragon said:

There are 3 versions of this release:

The first is the Limited edition brown vinyl version, which contains all 25 tracks, including Stone In Focus.

The next most complete version is the Warp UK CD release and the normal black vinyl release, which contain 24 tracks (Stone In Focus being omitted)

And finally, the least complete version is the Sire Records US CD release, which only has 23 tracks (omitting Stone In Focus AND Hankie)

 

HOWEVER, Stone In Focus was released on another album: "Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension", in which Stone In Focus was given the name "#19" and appears as track no. 10.

 

Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension is indeed available on CD. More info can be found here: <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/59922" target="_blank">http://www.discogs.com/release/59922</a>

Sorry mate but Stone in Focus is on the black vinyl version of SAWII and is rarer as only 1000 copies exist (10,000 for the brown). Pleased as punch that I am one of the lucky 1000, thats how I know!

  On 4/5/2010 at 5:33 PM, beerwolf said:

  On 8/2/2006 at 4:52 PM, Dragon said:

There are 3 versions of this release:

The first is the Limited edition brown vinyl version, which contains all 25 tracks, including Stone In Focus.

The next most complete version is the Warp UK CD release and the normal black vinyl release, which contain 24 tracks (Stone In Focus being omitted)

And finally, the least complete version is the Sire Records US CD release, which only has 23 tracks (omitting Stone In Focus AND Hankie)

 

HOWEVER, Stone In Focus was released on another album: "Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension", in which Stone In Focus was given the name "#19" and appears as track no. 10.

 

Excursions In Ambience: The Third Dimension is indeed available on CD. More info can be found here: <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/59922" target="_blank">http://www.discogs.com/release/59922</a>

 

 

Sorry mate but Stone in Focus is on the black vinyl version of SAWII and is rarer as only 1000 copies exist (10,000 for the brown). Pleased as punch that I am one of the lucky 1000, thats how I know!

Lucky bastard.

I understand why they didn't included it in the CD release , but holy shit , this track is god's jizz . The Entity that is the Universe is speaking to us via this track.

no tassels love?

lichen will probably always remind me of a woodland scene and my first shrooms experience. the song gave me this strange nostalgic feeling whenever i heard it after that.

Parallel Stripes... its like a scientist in his hidden lab on the moon trying to make the purest of white healing lights into some sort of vibration that you can ingest, yet he struggles to control it as it just lashes out of his grasp. At the end of the song there is a lovely yet quick and melancholic swansong about this (in my head :P)

if not that Lichen, fucking wonderful track

and when those don't work, Stone In Focus.... what gold.... what solid fucking musical gold....time and time again I come back to this track with the other two and it wins everytime.... I'll never get bored of it!

Cliffs. the dulcet, radiating magic of this track is tranquility at it's finest. whenever i hear it, i think of looking up at bright sunshine through the surface of the ocean water. seeing the sun ripple and glimmer above me as it starts, and then as it progresses it's like looking down and seeing large clusters of the most colourful coral reefs you've ever seen.

but it's really a hard thing to vote on. i love every track for completely different reasons, based on the moods they ignite in me. some happy, some very sad, some very lonely, some very peaceful, some angry and some just plain weird. i think if i didn't say cliffs, stone in focus and curtains would be right behind it. and z-twig.....i don't even know how Richard came up with something so pretty.

goddamn, SAW II. i love you to death

  On 4/5/2010 at 4:42 PM, Boxing Day said:

I'm convinced Rhubarb has healing powers.

agreed. listen to it backwards some time, that's pretty cool sounding

This release is simply transcendental. Full of a wide spectrum of human emotions. At its most beautiful it never fails to make me happy to be alive.

Rhubarb is pensive, nostalgic, healing

Cliffs, Z Twig, Lichen to me are pure fascination, childlike imagination, having your breath taken away, experiencing nature.

Doesn't the fact that a few tracks stand out as being the most popular show how inconsistent the album is? Surely if it was a truly great album all the tracks would get more or less equal votes.

The production let him down I think. If you take the theme of the album to be "ambient music of the universe" it's actually a bit of a failure considering all the potential of that idea.

Having said that Rhubarb is pure essence of genius, the best piece of music I've ever heard methinks.

Clifffffss

  On 4/8/2010 at 10:56 PM, CapriBuddha said:

Doesn't the fact that a few tracks stand out as being the most popular show how inconsistent the album is?

Seriously though,

Seriously what? I think I have a point!

Matchsticks is kind of a solid track but I don't think it evokes the same feelings as the rest of the tracks! Like I'm not convinced you 'get' SAWII if that's the only track you like

Right, I think I told this story before, I gave S.A.W.2 to a girl I fancied once cause she kinda liked CD1Track7 when she heard it. Thought I could get her into it, hoping to pull the old "ooh what strange but wonderful music you gave to me good sir", you know. She ended up calling it Alien-music and not even playing it once, so I took back the b-day present and gave it to my best friend instead.

Anyhow I won't vote on the poll cause picking one favourite wouldn't do the diversity of the tracks justice imo... but I still feel I don't fully "get" Rhubarb. If I had to put the tracks in an order of liking, Rhubarb would could even end up on the last place for me... I don't think it's bad at all, but it's got the hell of a competition.

Now this is probably the album I had the most devoted listening experience with. I hardly ever play it all the way through. It's kind of overkill. On the first listen, when I wasn't familiar with most of them, I only moved to the next track after a whole week had passed, except for a couple days I spent in Poland, where I moved forward a bit quicker. Of course I also avoided the track titles before I was very familiar with the tracks themselves. One of the few ones I knew in advance was Stone in Focus, on which I share the high opinion of everyone else. It's the sickest track. I was convinced CD2 Track 11 would be it, due to the playtime, but when I eventually reached it and had been preparing to hear it in full CD quality, I was like whaaa this isn't the one but oh well this is fucking me up just as much so hey.

Spots kinda freaked me out too. Although it often gets forgotten about between all the other melodic weird ones, it's still extremely well designed. Very fast paced shadowy stuff. First time I heard it, I was running a bit low on sleep, so I came up with these really strange images half awake. I tried to recreate them, suceeded even (but animation didn't work):

yeeah ... this is pretty much what Spots still looks like for me. Imagine flying over that, not being able to tell the size, occasionally looking down into the holes to see either some kind of ancient animal carcassees or collapsed stone structures.

rhubarb, z twig, lichen, and hexagon are the most beautiful in my opinion.

the whole album agrees with me really

haha who voted tassels after i mentioned that?

Lichen.

To me, that track is like the sun rising, and time lapse photography of flowers blooming as the sun gets brighter. Sublime.

seriously sneaksta, Sherilyn Fenn =

nsfw

  On 4/9/2010 at 11:22 PM, sneaksta303 said:

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this is my favorite SAW II track

  On 4/10/2010 at 4:31 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

  On 4/9/2010 at 11:22 PM, sneaksta303 said:

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this is my favorite SAW II track

She is gorgeous isn't she?

Where is stone in focus!? :angry:

  On 4/13/2010 at 3:26 PM, cern said:

Where is stone in focus!? :angry:

Where is Hankie??

Also, TIC TOC TIC TOC , time is running out UNIVERSE.