C-Schulz - 4. Film Ton mp3 album

As reviewed by me in February 1994:The whole album is pretty short but seems long. It is meant to be digested whole; the tracks don't sound as diverse out of context. It's not boring, though, and has an amazing quality, like their labelmates Shinjuku Thief, of being exceptionally well-produced... very different from other ambient music, very innovative, like an aural movie for the mind.Platze: Footsteps, crowds, paper rustling, dark piano lines, a hypnotic bassline that creeps into the background, all arranged into a mindblowing introduction to the soundtrack of a nonexistent film that might be about death or, perhaps, life in Germany.Ich Lausche Dem Rauschen: Lonely cellos, a woman's breath, the sound of blood rushing through someone's veins, rain, snippets of a quickly winding tapereel.Gala: A continuation of Ich Lausche Dem Rauschen, the blood and cellos are joined by a jazz bass, piano, and violins, arranged in a twisted, descending progression difficult to describe. Disturbing, melancholy music for people in Hell when they go out to dinner. Reminds me of some scenes from The Shining. At the end of the track the music disappears into the surf.Ufer: More cellos and keyboards rise from the surf, ambient in the Namlookian style, replaced by an enrapturing dual piano line, many sound effects, and dreary violins. Although repetitive in a soundtrack style, the song keeps moving and evolving. Percussion comes in, the sound effects change, and that cool piano carries you through the amazing journey.Fluter: Suddenly things get dark, the footsteps and rustling paper return, airy synth pads float along, voices you can't quite make out, superb mixing, very textural, many kinds of instruments sweep around, not playing anything in particular, a bass is plucked every few seconds and run through a pan-delay, lots of continuous drones deep in the headphones, a piano line creeps in and you're carried seamlessly into...Brucke: Building around the piano line, layer by layer, maracas, more keyboards, another piano, the amazing bass from Platze returns and dominates another flawless link to...Uberland: To quote Jon Drukman, "Infinity out of 10." I am trying to write about it while listening to it and I am speechless. It's really not that different from the rest of the album, but I'm stunned. The bass is rhythmic and the keyboards are dancing around in my head. There are tons of things going on in the background. Far too short but the album must move on...Unterland: Everything fades down into a drone, an somewhat more intense version of Platze, more drone, rain, blood, a lighter drone with sound effects, a door closes.Pforte: A sort of resolution to the whole thing, very moody, a waltz for the people in Hell after they get done with dinner.