Product Description
Before there was A Strangely Isolated Place, there was Far Away Trains Passing By, the debut album that brought Ulrich Schnauss his initial rush of attention. All the hallmarks that made his most recent efforts such engaging listens are there from the start: the uplifting melodies, the mesmerizing marriage of shoegaze and electronics, the dramatic and dynamic arrangements. In many ways, Far Away Trains Passing By is very much the equal of its follow-up.
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Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist who is influenced by forebears like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk--but unlike retro-space artists, he doesn't sound like he just emerged from their dusty studios after being marooned there for 30 years. Instead, his synthesizers bristle with contemporary electro-rhythms, a bit of New Wave romanticism, and melodies you want to last forever. Schnauss has perfected a balance between quiet yearning and joyful heroism in his music, with sweeping major-chord progressions that are triumphal without being ostentatious, expansive without being pompous. For someone who is so rhythm-centered with crackling snares and electro-glitches, it's ultimately the melodies that draw you in, turned on glistening, bell-like timbres and space-organ sustains. Far Away Trains Passing By is actually his first album, released in Europe in 2001, but it's been out of print and is being issued in the United States for the first time. The reissue comes with a bonus CD that includes six pieces pulled from various Schnauss side projects and tracks that didn't make the original album. Far Away Trains Passing By is electronica with a melancholy soul, and it has lost nothing in the intervening years. --John Diliberto
Review
"Astonishingly gorgeous..a swirling opus of densely layered sounds and treated vocals." -- XLR8R
"Stunningly original and gushingly beautiful." -- Remix
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.45 ounces
- Manufacturer : Domino Record Co.
- Original Release Date : 2005
- Date First Available : January 29, 2007
- Label : Domino Record Co.
- Number of discs : 2
