Search - Scott Wyker :: Waves

Best Recording Of Real Waves On The Market

11/06/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love the sound of the ocean, and I probably have every ocean sound CD ever recorded. This one is the best by far! The sound reproduction is so accurate, you'ld swear you were on the beach. Great for meditation or for "white noise" to drown out other noises. I also sleep with it on."

Soothing stress reducer

12/15/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"High quality recording that really gives you the sense of being there. I like to listen whenever I need to reduce stress. I'm looking forward to more recordings by this artist!"

The song of Neptune's salt green streams

Boileau0663 | Tournai, Belgique | 01/04/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is not your umpteenth recording of sea sounds: this is a recording with an artistic quality. It is not just helpful noise, no, in "Waves", without adding anything artificial or contrived, Scott Wyker has truly captured the wild beauty of the ocean surf breaking on the shores of Central California.This man really managed to find the most musical beaches and shoals of California and persuade the most gifted waves of the hemisphere to play on them for this recording! Prosaically, this cd is your ideal Terminator for all parasitic noises from an ebullient neighborhood or a personal environment teeming with purring, buzzing and squeaking electrical devices.More poetically, "Waves" will transport your mind and imagination to some undisturbed shore of the Americas, before the galleons and all the other "floating houses" spoilt the whole thing. The sound is so genuine and beautiful that it has a tremendous evocative power. This recording will awaken the poet and the child that were slumbering in your heart. But, will one ask, do bird cries resound amid the gorgeous splashing and gurgling? Yes, but contrary to what happens on cheap environmental cds of this kind, the sounds that strike your delicate ears are not the raucous laments of a phalanx of seagulls venting their anger at the latest oil spill or the dearth of fish right into the micro but the intermittent peeps and cheeps of a solitary if happier winged creature quietly cruising in the far distance. Anyway, 99,99% of "Waves" is just...waves,waves and more waves but, and this is an important point to remember, these are waves from different locations along the coast of California, which means that there is some slight variation in the watery tumult. Not every piece is an allegro: the third track definitely features a quieter surf than, say the first track (undoubtedly an allegro fortissimo) and might be the ideal non chemical solution for coaxing your obdurate insomnia into submission, if you will but press the "repeat" button of your hi-fi that is...But wait, in case you belong to the tribe of the radical "waverists" who hate having their listening pleasure spoilt by anything that even remotely does not sound like Neptune's baritones and basses, that is precisely the track with the peeping loner. Nothing is perfect!Moreover, I would like to warn enthusiastic insomniacs that "Waves" is about grandeur: it is a hymn to the wild, boundless energy of the sea. The waves roar and rumble with deafening crescendos, as if rehearsing for the first scene of Shakespeare's "Tempest". This may mean just too much vitality for your nervous system. For you, I would recommend exclusive daytime use of this cd and Gregorian chant from Silos or zen flute for the night...

The cd ends with a humorous note: a frog concert and an anonymous piece by...well, buy "Waves" and you will know the artist!"