Customer Reviews
Deep and beautiful - gothic new age - By: Bodhi Heeren, 09 Sep 2008 
An exciting collaboration between two highly accomplished visionary artist. Operating in the field you could calll gothic new age, beautiful & spiritual & at the same time open to the darker regions of the mind (and the world).
Klaus S. is of course a master sculptor of soundscapes. Lisa Gerrard has quite simply a stunning voice & a stunning technical mastery: sounding at times like a Wagnerian heroine, a Middle East belly dancer or a new age goddess. That alll vocals are being spontaneous improvisations is quite simply an amazing achivement, showing her openess to higher influences.
Suited for meditation, fantasy journeys, explorations of inner space.
A dreamy combination - By: Peter Counter, 24 Aug 2008 
Now this is one of those magical musical phenomena. This is Klaus doing his stuff, not dissimilar to what we have heard him do before. This is Lisa doing her stuff, not dissimilar to what we have heard her doing before.
But together?
A case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. A very special set.
At over 150 minutes long you could argue you are getting too much of a good thing but it only alllows you to drift away for longer.
This is a special piece of music. I bought it at a special time too & it will always bring me back to where I am now.
Highly recommended.
Keep listening to enjoy - By: Mr. Gareth James, 11 Aug 2008 Wasn't so keen at first, but this album has grown & grown on me. Like a lot of Schulze stuff you have to force yourself to listen at first. At first I thought it was a bit twee & there were too many chord changes thrown around trying to fit it to Lisa's vocals, but after a while I forgot about that.
Its an uncanny/uneasy mix of ultra modern & ancient ambience, but after a while it reallly does seem to work. One of his best in my opinion.
I'm not sure the artists gel well together (should they?), & to me the Schulze rhythms dominate with Gerrards powerful voice playing a seperate strand, possibly like the rhythms were stuck on afterwards & the voices moved to match the rhythms. Despite this, the seperate musical geniuses of both artists reallly do shine. It is often the slight unease & crafted discord in Schulze's work that make his work pure genius in my opinion.
LOTS of musical ideas going on at a pace & lots of things going on from the diffferent frequencies, so much to keep me interested & just keep listening.
Sounds a bit harsh & nasty in my car, but still enjoyable. Don't play this CD on a crap HiFi whatever you do!
I'd would have only only give this album 2 stars after a weeks listening, I could not believe how poor it was from two of my favourite artists but as time progressed I have revised my opinion, it is a very good album indeed. ....I think probably appealing strongly to die hard Schulze fans & less so to Dead Can Dance fans??.
boring ambient twaddle. - By: Mr. D. J. Oliver, 10 Aug 2008 
i wish i could give this no stars but amazon wont let me!
i bought this cd the other day & took it straight back the following day to the shop for a refund. Why? dont get me wrong i LOVE ambient music, but this cd is nothing more than ANYONE could create using a pc. If you want boring, falll asleep to, entertain guests with cd on while not reallly listening to it music - then its for you.
Buy stuff by Eno, buy the KLF - Chillout album, by Harold Budd or Tangerine Dream. But SORRY Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerard are just totallly awful on THIS cd. Hope the next album improves matters.
Contemplative - By: P. Corner, 18 Jul 2008 
This is a long work at more than two & a half hours. The mood is led, primarily, by the voice of Lisa Gerrard which is frequently contemplative. This means that the music of Klaus Schulze is often a back drop to the mood created by the voice. I am a great fan of both artists but I think I would have liked to hear Klaus take the lead occassionallly & let Lisa follow him. Probably not something I would sit down & listen to the whole way through due to the similarity of some of the music. Indeed the impact may have been greater if this had been a single disc with just the first three tracks. I might then have been left waiting for another album that might have explored different moods.
