- Audio CD (23 Nov 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Type
- ASIN: B002LAUKN4
- Other Editions: Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 147,078 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Headphone Commute Review
23 Mar 2010
Format:Audio CD
After a string of releases and collaborations on various labels over the last few years, London based trio Rameses III released I Could Not Love You More on the always intriguing Type imprint in the fall of last year. It is a soothing and pastoral album full of lush drones and ambient soundscapes. Combining acoustic guitar, lap steel, loops, voice, synths, and field recordings of idyllic summer days, Daniel Freeman, Spencer Grady and Stephen Lewis, have composed a relaxing and intimate album reminiscent of Brian Eno, Helios, Mountains, and Klimek. Like all good ambient and modern classical, there's a sense of weightlessness to Rameses III's music, yet there's still an inherent feeling that a band is playing this music -- it's not overly produced, it's soft and very organic. Tracks like "All Shall Be Well" and "Cloud Kings" play up the trio's love for sprawling drone, while tracks "Across The Lake Is Where My Heart Shines" and "No Water, No Moon" are more song-like in composition, where the instruments maintain their sonic shape, rather than morphing into a whir of sound. The album conjures up a sense of nostalgia that I cannot quite put my finger on. Listening to it makes me feel a closeness to the past, a nearness, a uniformity even, to a forgotten yearning from years before. The beach side samples in "No Water, No Moon" reminding me of summers come and gone -- the soft strum of guitar creating a wall of white nostalgia, visceral feedback reverberating in my ears -- as the band's use of haunting vocals brings me back to the surface of my present, and I realize I've just totally zoned out on the streetcar and missed my stop completely. Such is the beauty of music, and such is the aural allure of Rameses III's I Could Not Love You More, which ranks as one of the best ambient, modern classical albums of 2009.
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Rameses 111
17 Feb 2010
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A Stereophile Magazine RECORD TO DIE FOR recommendation enticed my purchase of this CD because the reviewer begged the question "Would you like to hear something extremely beautiful?, and as a further incentive ".....amplifies life's most exquisite joys and makes more bearable its deepest sorrows." Listening to this monotony of sound I concluded that the title of the album ought to be variations on assorted dronings, and be recommended as a RECORD TO DIE BY! Titles appended to each track are laughable, bearing no relationship to the acoustic nonsense that is apparently supposed to convey some audible illustration of the title. It will be noticed that I have refrained from using the word "music". One might well expect great, or even not so great "music", and preferably beautifully recorded in order to merit a recommendation as a record to die for. It will be noted that I have assigned one star to the rating, and that only because the website would nat accept a starless rating. Do please save your money.
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