Woob - Ultrascope.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Ultrascope
Artist: Woob
Year: 2013
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Ambient / Modern Classical
DESCRIPTION
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Paul Frankland aka Woob's reputation was cemented very early in his career with the classic Woob 1194 release on Emit Records in 1994 - an album of eccentric, cinematic, surrealist wonder, impressive as both ambient composition and sound design. Frankland returned to recording as Woob in 2010 and we've head a steady stream of releases since then. Ultrascope is most impressive, a collection of dark widescreen music for head trips and 3D adventuring. The last proper Woob album Return To The City (2011) had an urban future noir quality to it, whereas this one maps an altogether more alien terrain.
The title track surges and sighs with a dramatic string-laden melody, big drones and thundering drums. "Horizon Vector" is one of several tracks that uses a Berlin-school arpeggio but in this case slightly detunes it, giving off that surreal air that Woob does so well. The 24-minute "Ultrascope II" veers between gorgeous, soaring synth chords and dark, sustained strings that hover as if in suspended animation, skirting the edge of outright dissonance without tipping you into the abyss. Of course it's all very cinematic - a Woob trademark - and a good deal of this album would be a perfect foil for Ridley Scott's Prometheus visuals instead of the purely functional atmospherics that passed for most of that film's score.
Despite some obviously dramatic flourishes, Ultrascope is a subtle piece work; it may even sound impenetrable on first listen and disjointed for a few more listens after that. But with time it reveals its deeper purpose, in the same way that Woob's best music always has. And subtle as it may be, it doesn't work as background sound. A Woob album is conceptually a very different proposition to, say, Eno's ambience. Listen he who ventures, or don't bother to venture at all. - Reviewed by Mike G, November 17, 2013
http://www.ambientmusicguide.com/pages/features/bestOf2013.php
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 8
Total Duration: 1:02:45
Total Size: 144 MBs (including scans, m3u, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320 CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 20 July 2014
Tracklist
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01) The Surface
02) Horizon Vector/s
03) Ultrascope
04) Earlier
05) Over World
06) Guide To Amplitude Re-calibration Techniques Vol. 1
07) Ultrascope II
08) The Last
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