Search - Christoph Heemann :: Days of the Eclipse

Not amazing

phil kavanaugh | Philadelphia-Metro Area, United States | 04/05/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"i'll be honest, i haven't listened to this album in like 2 years, but i do know it's probably my least favorite work by him. it's a follw-up to an album he did in 1994 called aftersolstice, which is quite remarkable. this however, is not. i remember putting it on after i got it and it took about 5 minutes before i could even hear a sound. then a bleak drone built up for about 2 minutes, and just when it sounded like it was getting going, it stopped. then it was silent for the next 10 minutes or thereabouts. in all there are about 5 sounds on this disk. i respect minimalism n' all, but this is rediculous. i think he overedited, is all. i'm sure he was just going for a certain feel, and i just don't want to be patient and wait for the 5 3-minute blurbs of interesting sound that come in about every 10-15 minutes. oh well."