Antarctica [Soundtrack]

Track Listings

1. Theme From Antarctica

2. Antarctica Echoes

3. Kinematic

4. Song of White

5. Life of Antarctica

6. Memory of Antarctica

7. Other Side of Antarctica

8. Deliverance

Antarctica,Vangelis,Polygram Records,Electronica,Neo-Classical,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Popular Music,Progressive Electronic,Soundtracks & Film Scores

Tracks:

3rd Planet
Gravity Rides Everything
Dark Center Of The Universe
Perfect Disguise
Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
A Different City
The Cold Part
Alone Down There
The Stars Are Projectors
Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
Paper Thin Walls
I Came As A Rat
Lives
Life Like Weeds
What People Are Made Of
3rd Planet - BBC Radio 1 Session
Perfect Disguise - BBC Radio 1 Session
Custom Concern - Instrumental BBC Radio 1 Session
Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes - BBC Radio 1 Session

Amazon.com

With their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world. Rarely giving off the cage-jarring thickness of guitar rock, Moon's 15 tunes are shaped around vignettes of a disheveled head figuring out the rambling disconnections of postmodern society. Guitars wobble, Brock wails on vocals, and his band mates--Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green--help take each song away from any predictable formula and toward wherever they seem to want to go. This is a band as profoundly touched by suburbia as was writer Harold Brodkey. You can imagine Brock, Green, and Judy lying on wide-open lawns, philosophizing about the shape of the universe and coming up with lyric moments like this (sung to folky, spare acoustic guitar): "A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard and as my own dog ran away I didn't say much of anything at all / A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard as my little sister played; the dogs took her away, and I guess she was eaten up, okay." Replays of American Beauty, anyone? --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Nice music.......2007-07-30

My daughter recommended this to me after I informed her I probably would not like any of the music she listened to. Boy I could not have been more wrong, this CD is very sweet and interesting, and I liked the songs as well as just the nice musical instruments being used. It is just kick back music but it still seems to feel like it is taking you somewhere. Absolutely beautiful to my ears and I am going to buy another Modest Mouse CD very soon.

Quintessential. .......2007-03-27

If you think you'd be interested in listening to this band, buy this album first. Think of it as their version of the Beatles' "White Album". Or Metallica's "Black Album". Or Weezer's "Blue Album". Or Primus' "Brown Album". Okay, that one sucked. Regardless, there is not a bad track on this album.

From the moment Brock tells you what his only art is until you find out what people are made of, you will be floored. The album captures all of the charm and personality that their Up albums had. But the production, the musicianship, the songwriting, the lyrics, everything, absolutely every thing is on the next level.

Modest... they shouldn't be!.......2007-02-10

This CD is better than their 'Good News' album. This one had next to no "hits" on it, and I liked more songs on this album than their other two I own! If you like odd-ball rockers and strangely hypnotic yelling and guitars, buy this album!

prepare to be amazed...not by my review, but how amazing this album is.......2007-01-30

I remember the first time I heard Modest Mouse. I was moved by Isaac Brock's sense of timing and lyrical punches. I thought that nothing could ever top The Lonesome Crowded West (and to me still nothing has), but this record came pretty damn close. From the opening note on the first track, 3rd Planet, I could feel my my heart slowly begin to drift away...right into the sea of Brock's haunting voice. And every track takes you somewhere new until you realize that you're eventually not even on this planet anymore. I absolutely love this record, for personal reasons and because they truely do raise the bar with every record they produce. If you're a fan of Good News, you owe it to yourself to hear the roots of this amazing band

Excellence.......2007-01-21

Others have said it already so many times...this is a monster of an album and Modest Mouse are exquisite.

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Some of his best work
Angels in America - Always Great!
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Celestial Xpression of Thomas Newman
Amazing work

Angels in America
Thomas Newman
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Tracks:

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Solitude - Duke Ellington
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Spotty Monster - Thomas Newman
Mauve Antarctica - Thomas Newman
Her Fabulous Incipience - Thomas Newman
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A Closer Walk With Thee - Lewis, George & His Ragtime Band
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The Great Work Begins (End Title) - Thomas Newman
Tropopause - Thomas Newman
I'm His Child - Zella Jackson-Price

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Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his sprawling meditation on the AIDS epidemic of the 80's into an equally epic, Mike Nichols-directed HBO miniseries. But while Thomas Newman's score spans that dramatic landscape with rich stylistic diversity, the young champion of the daunting Newman family musical tradition (his father was Fox legend Alfred; his brother fellow film scorer David; his cousin songwriter/composer Randy) never lets musical bombast get in the way of compelling emotional introspection. Anchored by a delicate wind and string-driven main theme that's as mature as it is bittersweet, Newman proceeds to explore some of the same adventurous, rhythmically restless soundscapes that characterized his work on Erin Brockovich and American Beauty. But that typically moody experimentalism is leavened elsewhere by moments of neo-baroque choral exultation, smokey 30's jazz (courtesy of George Lewis and his Ragtime Band and Duke Ellington) and even flashes of gospel and orchestral post-modernism, all of it served up with a masterful sense of irony-free restraint that's become one of the composer's most refreshing hallmarks. It's easily one of Newman's -- and 2003's -- most accomplished and satisfying film scores. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Some of his best work.......2007-06-12

Most of us know Thomas Newman for his work on his more famous films like American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black, but this soundtrack to the HBO film is right up there with his best pieces of work. The whole album goes through various feelings, shades and emotions, the best tracks for me being Mauve Antarctica and Tropopause. If you're a Thomas Newman fan then you need this in your collection.

Angels in America - Always Great!.......2007-01-03

Love the film, the play and the soundtrack. If you find the topics of Angels in America interesting, thought-provoking and warm to your heart, you will LOVE this. As a man battling HIV, I find it outstanding. Thanks Amazon, for offering all the Angels in America products.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-01

There are not enough stars on the selection for me to say how good this CD is! It is so beautiful and like classical music. I listen to it all the time!

The Celestial Xpression of Thomas Newman.......2005-08-31

...well, to only write a review is not enough to describe the impressive sound in this record. it is necessary to listen to it. Thomas do not scrimp in efforts to assemble this wonderful musical work. in fact, each one of the melodys, agreed, and instruments (mainly those of wind and strings) even are perfectly connected and performed in litle some more of 70 minutes of music. Transitions from the quietness of a melody to the loudest human chorus, may be hear is this soundtrack (tipically from the original Serie, that I have too in DVD). But everything is not perfect. Must be had included the Henry Mancini song: "Moon River" contained in one of the most sentimental scenes in the film/serie (that i think at least). In a plus, if you are an lover of this kind of productions, it does not have to lack in its collection the "Angels in America Soundtrack". Buy and enjoy it..!

Amazing work.......2004-11-28

After working in film scoring for the past decade, Thomas Newman has finally achieved his masterwork with the soundtrack to "Angels in America." It is a culmination of the different techniques and themes he has worked on in the past, along with a completely new orchestral sound that perfectly underlies the depth and scope of the film. It is a very rare score in that it conveys all the happiness, pain, pessimism and hope that Kushner's work is all about, simply through the nuanced way Newman has written and arranged it. It is an incredibly entertaining score that stands well on its own. A must for any fans of Newman or the film.

Music From Koreyoshi Kurahara's Film Antarctica

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timeless music of transcendant solitude.....and dogs...yes, dogs
A perfect accomaniment to a beautiful film
Almost as Perfect as 1492 Conquest of Paradise !!!!!
A Mystical Voyage To A Vast And Haunting Land Of Ice And Snow
All-Time Favorite Music

Music From Koreyoshi Kurahara's Film Antarctica
Vangelis
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ASIN: B000001F5A
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Theme From Antarctica
Antarctica Echoes
Kinematic
Song Of White
Life Of Antarctica
Memory Of Antarctica
Other Side Of Antarctica
Deliverance

Customer Reviews:

timeless music of transcendant solitude.....and dogs...yes, dogs.......2007-07-20

Late 1970's, 3 pm, sitting in my van, waiting on my laundry to cycle.....Houston, TX, sticky hot....and some pretty good FM DJ whose name I have forgotten plays Vangelis "Heaven and Hell" all the way through.

My life changed.

(By the way, anyone who likes the music of Vangelis should immediately buy "Heaven and Hell"--anyone who appreciates cover-art should buy it as well.)

"Heaven and Hell" led me to Vangelis to "Spiral" to "Albedo" and to a near-deserted multiplex in southwest Houston to see the movie "Antarctica" MOVIE REVIEW---please see it in High Def, or on the big screen--stunning visuals---good news.... most of the dogs survive....

With heroes who cannot speak, the music speaks ....for the dogs, and for the humans who had to leave, but will return. The music speaks of vastness, cold, and despair, but also the hope that beauty brings, the beauty in the white ice and distant sun.

This is music to listen to sparingly.....on sunny days in winter....on Sunday morning....but it is music to keep, to revisit and renew.

A perfect accomaniment to a beautiful film.......2007-05-05

I've owned this soundtrack for several years without having seen the movie it accompanied until today.

The movie itself is beautiful and emotionally charged and Vangelis' stunningly melancholic score ups the emotional quotient and will have you reaching for the Kleenex once you marry the visuals with the music.

Enjoy the breathtaking music on this cd and beg steal or borrow the movie to get the full experience.

Almost as Perfect as 1492 Conquest of Paradise !!!!!.......2006-07-14

THIS ALBUM KICKS MAJOR BUTT IN THE PURE MOODS DEPARTMENT AND THE OPENING TRACK IS THE BEST ON THE ALBUM, I HAD THE VANGELIS ALBUM TITILED "PORTRAITS" AND THE VERSION OF ANTARCTICA THERE WAS ONLY 4 MINUTES LONG, I DIDNT KNOW THAT THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF ANTARCTICA WAS 7 MINUTES OF PURE HEAVEN,THE 4 MINUTE VERSION ON PORTRAITS ONLY PLAYS THE FIRST DECENT HALF, THE OTHER 3 MINUTES OF THE SONG NEAR THE END ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST PERIOD !!! IM SO GLAD I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM TO KNOW THAT ANTARCTICA WAS EVEN BETTER THAN I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT :)

A Mystical Voyage To A Vast And Haunting Land Of Ice And Snow.......2006-01-21

Vangelis' soundtrack to Koreyoshi Kurahara's seldom seen and all but forgotten '84 film 'Antarctica' is one of the true undiscovered classics of the last twenty years. Possibly second only to his highly acclaimed 'Chariots of Fire' masterpiece, 'Antarctica eludes to a less emotional, more remote musical experience.

Vangelis' ethereal soundtrack masterfully transports the listener to a barren, yet exquistely beautiful soundscape that superbly captures the sense of isolation and loneliness of this vast, frozen continent. The pieces are haunting, mystical, yet surprisingly peaceful instead of disquieting. Without a doubt this is one of my all-time favorite CD's.

All-Time Favorite Music.......2003-12-03

My dream is to someday travel to Antartica. When I do, I will be playing 'Antartica' on a CD with earphones while viewing the magnificent stark beauty of the continent, it's ocean and icebergs. This album makes me cry every time I play it. Vangelis was able to depict the 'feel' of this place, even though it is devoid of people and cultures. Actually, there is a 'culture' there; it belongs to the penguins, sea birds, whales - and the beautiful variations in blue.

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Disappointing
Enough with the damn compilations!
worth buying, has seven good Vangelis songs
Excellent Overview of Vangelis' Best Known Songs
Hip-O Records trying to make money from us

Odyssey: The Definitive Collection

Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
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ASIN: B0000DHK5T
Release Date: 2003-11-04

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18 remastered tracks including titles from 'Missing', 'Blade Runner', '1492 Conquest Of Paradise' & the Oscar-winning 'Chariots Of Fire', as well as 2 bonus tracks, 'I'll Find My Way Home' & 'State Of Independence'. Digipak. Universal. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2006-08-19

I like the music, but the sound quality is terrible. I bought this CD because it was released in 2003, but there is ZERO improvement in sound quality from previous older tracks.

Enough with the damn compilations!.......2005-06-11

First of all I like Vangelis very much. However I have had it with the way that his music is being released. We are consistently given compilation releases (usually of the same tracks that are on other releases). WHAT IS THE POINT????!!
All the more frustrating is that Vangelis has a ton of unreleased music that many fans like myself have been after for years. Sorry the bootlegs on Ebay just don't cut it.
Where's an official release of "Cavafy", "The Bounty", "Francesco", and "Bitter Moon". Where is all the still unreleased music from "1492", "Blade Runner", "Antarctica" and "Chariots of fire", yes he released soundtracks for these films but they were sadly lacking.
Unfortunately we will probably have to wait for Vangelis to demise before we ever get these tracks, if even then.

worth buying, has seven good Vangelis songs.......2005-05-25

Some may complain that this is not a definitive Vangelis CD. Nope, it is far from being that, but it has seven good songs on it that make it worth purchasing for less than $20. Those seven good songs are: Hymne, Alpha, Chariots of Fire, Missing, Pulsar, Petite Fille de la Mer, and L'enfant. Of course, those are just my personal favorites.

Excellent Overview of Vangelis' Best Known Songs.......2004-06-10

It's hard to keep track of the number of compilations of Vangelis. Off the top of my head, I can think of "The Best of", "Greatest Hits", "Themes", "Portraits", and "Reprise". But they never got it right, something was always off, or one period or another of his career was not covered. Now comes "Oddisey: The Definitive Collection". While it may be pushing your luck to proclaim anything as a Vangelis "definitive" compilation", given his prolific output over the years, I am here nevertheless to tell you that this compilation is as good as it will get.

"Oddisey: The Definitive Collection" (18 tracks, 78 min.) in my opinion truly does compile all of Vangelis' best know tracks and greatest hits. Most of the tracks on here will sound immediately familiar, many because they are movie themes (Chariots of Fire being the most famous of course, but also The Missing, Blade Runner, thankfully containing both the beginning and end titles, Mutiny on the Bounty, and others), and other that became well known in commercials (Hymne, L'Enfant, among others). There can be no denying the creativity and talents of Vangelis. There are 2 bonus tracks, "I'll Find My Way Home" and "State of Independence", the 2 best known tracks of Jon & Vangelis, a nice touch to the album.

I share my frustration with other reviewers here that there is tons of great Vangelis music out there that remains unreleased. To be sure, Vangelis deserves a box-treatment of rare and unreleased tracks. But if you are looking for a single-disk overview of his best known songs, look no further: "Oddisey" is it. Released in Fall, 2003, it is a nice way to commemorate Vangelis turning 60 (say it ain't so!).

Hip-O Records trying to make money from us.......2004-04-20

Hos this company dares to call this compilation definitive collection??? Bring something new and then I'll consider your work. Shame of you!!!

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i boo this product
One of the best
Arguably the Best Modest Mouse Album Ever
One of my favorites ever.
Drifty and surreal...

The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mouse
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A Different City
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Alone Down There
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Paper Thin Walls
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Life Like Weeds
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Customer Reviews:

i boo this product.......2007-05-16

product not same as description. I wanted old version... false advertisement. Beware.

One of the best.......2007-03-04

I really got into this album back when it came out. I remember working on a really tough and time consuming project at work that kept me there to 2 and 3 am in the morning many nights. I had a little boom box back in that lab that jammed this album (and BTS Live as well) pretty much constantly at full volume when I thought everybody went home. Little did I know one of the major senior VP's also kept really long hours as well and could hear it when I turned it up really loud. One night really late I was working thinking I was the only one left in the building and someone surprised me from behind. First words out of his mouth was what the hell was I listening too, I told him Modest Mouse, his reply back to me was at first he did not care for it but over the last month he has decided it may be the best album he has ever heard. Then we talked about some of the songs for the next couple of hours, the whole projectors song, the walls are paper thin all of it. We did that many other nights, kind of wierd to be sitting there talking to someone as high up and feared as that on that sort of level.

Anyway here I am many years later and while driving the other day I found this album in my car and tried to play it for a friend and it skipped like crazy driving me nuts. I found it on my computer and burned a new copy of it nad I am sitting down litening to it again and falling back in love with it. This is not an album you will get or fall in love with the first 5 times you listen to it. It will grow on you and once it does it will never leave you. There are only so many artist out there that can do that. Right off the top of my head I would mention Frank Black and Built To Spill in that level of recent music. So I say give this more the a casual listen and I promise you will fall in love.

Arguably the Best Modest Mouse Album Ever.......2005-09-24

I consider Modest Mouse to be the absolute best band of my generation. I know that probably sounds like blaspheme to Radiohead fans (and I do admire Radiohead), but when it comes to pure lyrical genius, NO band tops MM.

So, the question is: if MM is the best band of my generation, what is the best MM album? Most people would answer this question by slapping The Moon & Antarctica right in your palm. For me, Lonesome Crowded West beats M & A by a sliver, but they are both two of the most life-altering albums you're likely to find this side of Ok Computer.

The Moon and Antarctica actually beats Lonesome Crowded West in its sheer scope. Whereas Lonesome Crowded West remains purposefully isolated and somewhat secluded, M&A tackles the vastness of the universe, life, and death with such a surreal flavor that it'll sink into your blood (lyrics like "I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV" are just a taste of what M & A has to offer).

Both are extraordinary. Both remain true to their respective themes. And, both will click something inside your brain that you never knew existed.

My advice? If you want to know which is the better album, get them both and decide for yourself. I guarantee that neither will disappoint.

One of my favorites ever........2005-09-13

As classic now as when I first heard it 6 years ago. Isaac Brock comes into his songwriting best with this album. From its overarching themes of the universe, mortality, perspective, absolution, and betrayal, The Moon and Antarctica shines like no other late 90's indie album. If you liked The Lonesome Crowded West and thought Good News was a little too mainstream, this one will be right up your alley. Good, too, as a starting point for viewing Modest Mouse's collection backwards from Good News. Either way, The Moon and Antarctica is an essential listening experience for anyone that considers themselves to be on the up and up with contemporary rock n roll. Get it today and find out what I mean.

Drifty and surreal..........2005-04-04

"The Moon & Antarctica", although not Modest Mouse's most accessible album, is definitely their best work, and proof that signing on to a major label doesn't ALWAYS mean that something bad is about to happen (although it usually does...*grumble* ¬.¬).

First off, this album has little in common with the band's other efforts; this one is far more atmospheric and has more of a Radiohead/Pink Floyd influence instead of The Pixies influence of some of their other songs. Most of the anger and frustration from the Lonesome Crowded West is gone, and replaced with a subdued, icy, beautiful mood that stretches over many of the songs.

The Moon & Antarctica is at it's best during it's spaciest, driftiest moments, which can be found on the GORGEOUS, floating, overlapping guitar layers of "Gravity Rides Everything" (the perfect songs to play while watching the moon rise in the evening sky), the simple, raindrop-like acoustic flutters on "Perfect Disguise", the jaw dropping, shape-shifting 9 minute epic "The Stars Are Projectors" (which could very well explain all of existence), and the equally brilliant shapeshifter "Life Like Weeds".

As usual, Modest Mouse's lyrics are nothing short of absolutely stunning; the day I find a band that can top profound statements like "God is a woman, the woman is an animal, the animal is a man, and that's you" or "Was there a need for creation that was hidden in a math equation that asks this: Where do circles begin?" is the day I saw my ears off and stop listening to music (which I assure you isn't anytime soon). This could very easily be seen as a concept album about life, death, existence, religion, and the way the universe works.

Many people say that this album is as good as "OK Computer" in terms of life-changing albums; They don't say that for no reason. Reccomended for anyone who can handle weighty subject matter and equally hypnotic soundscapes to match it.

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Escape to Nature and the Universe
Fantastic listening music
Truly Inspiring

Polar Shift: A Benefit for Antarctica
Various Artists
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ASIN: B000006J6P
Release Date: 1991-06-11

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Theme From Antarctica - Vangelis
Secret Vows - Yanni
Pura Vida - Chris Spheeris
Song For Antarctica - Yanni
Lullaby - Jim Chappell
Watermark - Enya
Polar Flight - Steve Howe, Paul Sutin, Constance Demby
Day One - John Tesh
Anthem - Suzanne Ciani
Into Forever - Constance Demby
Antarctic Echoes - Vangelia
Field Of Tears - Chris Spheeris
Light Of The Spirit - Kitaro

Customer Reviews:

Escape to Nature and the Universe.......2005-04-08

Disappointed, I saved my broken "Polar Shift" tape, thinking I might never again hear this enchanting and moving music. It had found it's peace perhaps in "Antartica" if there is a place for broken music. I have never since found an album that moves me like Polar Shift. In 2003 I visited Alaska and since have bought music like "Glacier Bay" and "Pacific Blue" but still think Polar Shift is the most inspiring rendition of the feelings when you fly and walk the Artic deserts or even dream of it, like I did over a lifetime. I am hopeful that some of these wonderful artists will also create an album about Alaska's Artic and especially about ANWAR before the oil industry trespasses its fragile earth. I saw very few animals in Prudhoe Bay among the oil drilling and pipelines, but beyond that, in the Artic circle, saw 17-19 wild musk oxen, an endangered species. There are only 350 of these animals left and most of them are in ANWAR. What a shame we are giving up the remaining 5% of the Alaska coast when the oil industry can drill the other 95% already. ANWAR will only produce oil for 6 months! Read Jared Diamond's books about the end of civilizations like the Anasazi because of their own environmental errors. We may be next. The air in the Artic is like drinking fresh spring water and "Polar Shift" puts you there.
Mary Ann Diekmann April, 2005
Cincinnati, Ohio

Fantastic listening music.......2004-04-21

This is a great relaxing and also uplifting CD. I recommend it highly!

Truly Inspiring.......2004-01-08

I don't usually listen to "New Age" music, but about ten years ago I was spending the night at a friends house and she put this CD on as we went to sleep. I absolutly fell in love. This album transports you to the windy, snow swept arctic. Visions of black, starry skies and endless polar plains are portrayed in this beautiful music. If you purchase one album for relaxation and inspiration-buy this one. You won't regret it.

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extreme static
wow
Not to be listened to while driving
A vast and forbidding landscape of great beauty
Drone on

Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2)
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Avec Laudenum

ASIN: B000005EKO
Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

Antarctica
Traveling
Sunrise

Customer Reviews:

extreme static.......2005-02-16

as a fan of godspeed you black emperor, and other experimental epic bands, i found windy and carl through a perusal of kranky's catalog. if i hadn't bought this with a free gift card, i would've rated it a one. i am personally a fan of music using loops (boards of canada, hip hop in general), but the extent to which w&c play out their simple loops exceeds that of which i can tolerate. i once played this cd with the fast-forward button on, and i realized that i could hear the entire song in the first thirty seconds. the rest of the twenty minutes (in the case of the first song) is simply restating the same basic loop without any tangible alterations. i do not reccommend buying this cd.

wow.......2003-04-10

Wow. Like, wow. I've been listening to this album almost every night when I go to bed for a year now, and I'm still not sick of it. The warm textures and lullaby melodies massage your brain into a state of utter contentment. It's like being snuggled into a soft blanket as a child, on Christmas Eve, with a kitten, on Valium.

Not to be listened to while driving.......2001-07-25

Classified as "space-rock," a term that even mystifies Windy & Carl themselves, this album does not rock. Windy & Carl are not about so much about "songs" as they are about gorgeous sonic textures. At first, the three tracks on this disc may sound like exercises in self-indulgence, but on more careful listening, the listener will discover the slight variations and the way the sound waves interact and play off one another. Sheer aural beauty.

A vast and forbidding landscape of great beauty.......2000-08-17

The 20-minute title track has to be Windy & Carl's masterwork, a triumph of minimalism. There's nothing to it but a looped scratch like a stuck record, a wavering bass drone, and several layers of guitar. Nearly formless and yet utterly hypnotic, it summons up the feeling of flying at great speed above endless icy terrain (or maybe I'm just reading too much into the title...) The other two tracks are lighter, venturing more into Frippertronics category a la Fripp & Eno's classic "Evening Star"...

Drone on.......1999-09-27

This is Windy & Carl's contribution to the DARLA BLISS OUT series, consisting of three non-separated tracks, the epic here being the 20-minute one-chord track "Antarctica"...the music moves slow but never fails to interest, but it's best played as something to put you down, other Windy & Carl releases aren't so severe in this ditch...

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Oh Baby It's a Weird World
Beautifully crafted piece of work
There is only one word to describe this CD - EXCELLENT!
A Quinian delight for all you Animal Voice Lovers out there!
I'm on the ice!

Antarctica
Douglas Quin
Manufacturer: Miramar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006HDM
Release Date: 1998-05-05

Tracks:

Emperor Penguins
Weddell Seals (Mother And Pups)
Weddell Seals (Underwater)
Adelie Penguins
Canada Glacier
Wind Harps From The Taylor Valley
At The Sea Ice Edge

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You've never heard a compact disc like this. It's full of music and the musicians are Emperor Penguins, Weddell Seal, and their pups Wind and Glaciers. Douglas Quin is a sound recordist--an artist with a microphone. In 1996, Quin received a grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a program that sends artists and writers to Antarctica. He recorded magnificent sounds with an array of hydrophones (underwater microphones), in addition to recording some sounds above the ice. It is hard to imagine a soundscape as rich and as spectacular as the one Quin has created. --Bob Boilen

Album Description

In the world of sound recordists, those specializing in natural sound form the smallest group. Among that tiny group, very few professionals stand out. And most of these will acknowledge in a heartbeat that of all the places in the world to record creature life, the Antarctic is the most problematical. Where animal life is the least dense on the planet and the weather is generally awful, this polar region provides a test that only the best recordists will survive physically, creatively, and technically. Doug Quin is one of the rare few who has mastered the elements, the equipment and the poetic sense it takes to generate the fine sound art represented here. The only way to hear the other-worldly voices of Weddell, leopard seals, and penguins underwater is with a hydrophone (underwater microphone). Previously, these creatures had been recorded many times.

But it takes that special gift of creative imagination, combined with a knowledge of the technology to p! ut together the multi-headed array of hydrophones that produced the stereo/surround events heard on this album. It didn't hurt that the weather gods smiled for Quin while on site. Just remember though, no one has used this type of stereo array in this manner before. And to create this kind of magic with natural sound takes time, enormous patience, perserverance, and a keen compositional sense to make lyrical the material heard on this album. Sounds from the Antarctic present the ultimate test.

Customer Reviews:

Oh Baby It's a Weird World.......2006-04-02

There are soundscapes which seek to immerse you in another time & place, and then there are soundscapes whose purpose seemingly is to make you question reality.

"Antarctica" falls squarely in the latter.

Enduring incredible hardships of sub-zero temperatures, inaccessibly remote locations, equipment not designed for such abuse and animals who spend their lives hiding, Quin emerged from the ice shelves with a sheaf of recordings which must be heard to be believed. There are seals that sound like asthmatic children, penguins who sound like roosters, fish who sound like synthesizers and shifting ice which sounds like nothing else on earth.

Among soundscape recordings this is, hands down, the most hard-fought and bizarre on the market.

Beautifully crafted piece of work.......2000-01-09

With so many thrown together, poorly recorded, tasteless and cheesy releases in the environmental area, it was incredibly satisfying to hear Doug Quin's 'Antartica'. He is a truly fine recordist and this release sees him working in extremely difficult conditions. Anyone who has tried to record on location will appreciate the skill and finesse of this release. For me the most satisfying track was the hydrophone recording of the Weddell seals - absolutely amazing - like an orchestra of VCS-3 synthesisers! All in all the CD is edited and structured for a very satisfying listening experience without destroying the integrity of the source recordings. This in itself is a bit of an artform - 'composition' no less. My only criticism (which may be more to do with the label than the artist) is that I've read/heard that the CD is mixed in Pro-Logic surround but there is no indication of this on the actual CD. I've only listened in stereo so far but it sounds like there is some surround encoded in there (some quite 'phasey' sections). Must get it up on a Pro-Logic decoder to see what that reveals. This is a minor criticism as for all intents and purposes this is a 'must own' CD. Congratulations to Doug Quin, I'll certainly be looking out for more of his work!

There is only one word to describe this CD - EXCELLENT!.......1999-06-10

Nothing can beat the quality of the sounds that come through on this CD, I hope that we can hear or listen to many more like them from Doug. Very natural and enjoyable...

A Quinian delight for all you Animal Voice Lovers out there!.......1998-07-14

This has got to be the best follow-up CD I have ever heard! I was amazed with the beuty and splender that Oropendola offered me with the rain forest, and I was so happy to finally hear that Antartica had been released. I have been following Doug Quin's work for some time now, and I must say, if he can keep producing work like this, I don't think there is anything that can stop him from being the greatest wildlife recorder of all time.

He has developed his own type of music. It is peaceful, relaxing, and exhilerating all in one. If there was one artist I would want to meet, if would have to be The Almighty Douglas Quin.

I'm on the ice!.......1998-05-09

Wow - I played this in Dolby surround and was amazed! The seals and penguins are all around you. Put your slippers on before you attempt this.

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Antarctica: A Storybook Record
The Never
Manufacturer: Trekky Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FZETAM
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

Summer Time
On a Mountain
Leaves Start to Fall
Summer Girl/Old Man Winter
March of the Minions
Farm Land
Searching and Chasing
Cavity
Winter's Coming
Antarctica
Sharpest Place
Witch
Bomber Pilot
Snow Starts to Fall
Winter Time

Customer Reviews:

No one's reviewed this yet?.......2007-04-11

Ok, here's how I found this band... I have a band on Myspace (2nd Wind). The Never asked to be my friend. I went to their site and listened to their music. I added them to my friend's list and then went immediately to Amazon to order "Antarctica..".

While the idea of having an illustrated story accompany the CD was innovative, it was the music that drew me in. It's a concept album, which I tend to appreciate - I enjoy having a mood set and being taken for a ride - and in Antarctica there's a freshness (a wintery freshness?) to it - very uplifting. Standouts?: "Leaves Start to Fall", "Summer Girl/Old Man Winter", "Cavity"(my favorite), "The Witch". I've hit replay on these three songs before going on to the next one... more than once. But there's not a clunker in the mix.

And I love how the CD comes full circle - revisting themes - with the last song. Kind'a cinematic.

Based on my enjoyment of this CD, I'm ordering Ari Picker's (Lost in the Trees) "Time Taunts Me".

Score one for Myspace.

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Life-altering record.
not a steaming pile of...
Pretty much just 2 very good electronic-influenced indie rock songs - 2.5 stars
Antarctica- 81:03
Pure Ecstasy

81:03
Antarctica
Manufacturer: File 13
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Numbers

ASIN: B00004TWH7
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

Absence
Tower of Silence
Velvet Flood
Return to Omma Dawn
Chrome Selected
Ultra N

Tracks:

Hallucinus
Tektur the Water
Exisis
7759-60784-1-E
Arctikal

Customer Reviews:

Life-altering record........2007-06-03

Two stars (below)? Don't make me laugh.

This album blows away 98% of music out there. Sure, Antarctica was only together for an EP and this double-disc MASTERPIECE, but the music speaks for itself... it is absolutely breathtaking, great driving music, great sleeping music, great make-out music, you name it.

Antarctica broke up in 2000 and went on to form Ova Looven... which is more cold and electronic... but still, AMAZING. If you like this record (and if you have great music taste, I don't see why you wouldn't absolutely worship it), check out Ova Looven. Chris Donohue, the mastermind behind Antarctica and Ova Looven (main singer)... what a genius. Thank you for improving my life, through music.

not a steaming pile of..........2006-03-24

i bought this album a few months ago. being a fan of eric richter's previous outfit, christie front drive, i decided to give this 2 disc album a shot. he strays far from rock but still manages to keep some of the same sound and elements that made christie front drive great. unfortunately not enough. frankly, the songs are simply average. they seem to all blend together and there are no real standouts other than the first track, "absence". this cd makes great mood music, but if you want anything more than that... this isn't your cd.

Pretty much just 2 very good electronic-influenced indie rock songs - 2.5 stars.......2006-01-01

Antarctica is a bunch of interesting ideas which sometimes work but mostly don't. The second track, "Tower Of Silence", is a great example of this. Musically it sounds pretty cool, but the singer kind of destroys the effect. If he worked on it a bit more it would be a pretty good song (it's a decent song as is, but it could've been way better). "Absence" and "Return To Omma Down", though, are very cool songs the likes of which you don't hear that often (the style, I mean). They're electronica-influenced rock while the rest of the album is just straight-up indie rock. The rest of the songs are pretty bad, unfortunately - they're just very hard to listen to. The lyrics are very hard to discern and thus don't add any impact to the songs. Though it does contain some interesting moments (plus those 2 songs), I don't think I'd recommend it, ESPECIALLY with its $19.00 price tag.

Highlights include:
"Absence"
"Tower Of Silence"
"Return To Omma Down"
"Arctikal" (sort of)
"Ultra Nørsk." (parts of it)

Antarctica- 81:03.......2005-05-05

More atmospheric stuff here, except on a double album and with way more of an electronic bent. The most obvious namecheck here is New Order- I'm reminded of stuff like the end of `The Perfect Kiss,' which is obviously electronic in nature but isn't annoyingly so, like a lot of the electroclash that I was hearing a few years back. Electronic elements being used well from a songwriting standpoint rather than as signifiers, and back in 1999. Is the whole electro fad over now, or has it just gotten watered down and filtered into alternapop?

Pure Ecstasy.......2004-02-07

WOW, I had just recently picked up Ova Looven 58:34 & realized that members of that band were in Antarctica. I do not know for the life of me how I let a record like this slip past me but holy crap. Beautiful melting synth driven melodies with luscious harmonies over perfectly orchestrated beats. The song writing is incredible & stands out from anything I've heard in a while (considering this record came out in 2001). Overall if you like the mysterious guitar sounds of Cocteau Twins & The Cure mixed with dreamy electronic elements get this record NOW. I also highly recommend the Ova Looven record which takes the electronic elements a little bit further yet still keeping the same atmosphere as Antarctica.

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