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Goodbye | 
| Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
Label: Independiente
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 2610
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.8 x 0.2
EAN: 5060006339721
ASIN: B000OCZ1DA
Release Date: June 25, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Never Be The Same | | • | Shine | | • | Stars | | • | Einfeld | | • | In Between The Years | | • | Here Today Gone Tomorrow | | • | Song About Hope | | • | Medusa | | • | Goodbye | | • | For Good |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 I can't stop playing this October 25, 2008
Ever since I bough this album it has become a resident CD in my player. Which is a bit worrying.
 Could have been great August 8, 2008
I really, really wanted to love this album; I love some of Ulrich's previous work and certainly love all of his very blatant influences in their own right. Some of the song writing, particularly in 'Medusa' and 'Stars', is absolutely enchanting and insists upon more listens. But here is the problem... Usually with albums of this kind, sonic range, landscapes, wall of sound, you find new depths and greatness with every listen. However, with every listen I noticed more and more production flaws and annoyances. It seems that you can't listen to this on normal stereo speakers because they can't cope with all the hundreds of things going on, and you can't listen to it on pro studio monitors because they reveal all the bad production. So I'm let with an album that gets worse with every listen... If this album was in the same production bracket as the likes of Stars of the lid or Rothko, it would be an absolute masterpiece. As it stands, it's just quite disappointing and irritating.
an exceptional conveyance of emotional grace March 15, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised by the introduction of this album, so very different from his previous ones. This album proves this artists ability to create something extremely different sounding from his previous composition style, which in my opinion is not only daring, but shows versatility and adaptability.
If you have any concerns about the sound quality to this album, listen to it, without listening for lyrics or following expectations, and allow yourself to enjoy the feeling it creates.
To me, what is comforting is the ability to NOT have to worry about lyrics as all the songs seamlessly merge together - I have a feeling this artist may purposefully obscure some of his lyrical messages so that we can create our own associations, and he may do the same with his music, so that we can imbue our own selves into the experience of listening to this album.
What I find fascinating about this artist is his exceptional ability to convey emotion through his music, which few artists can really do. They may be technically brilliant, but they may lack the conveyance of feeling. This album is all about feeling.
The 'distortion' that is commented on in previous reviews is in my opinion characteristic of the music genre and also the influences that have made this genre possible, and not a result of this artists production potential.
I don't feel this album is about proving his digital mastery, but is actually a personal exploration of newer music avenues. The fact that he could layer hundreds of pieces of his songs into one song is quite incredible. Give his other collaborations with other reputable artists a listen, and you will understand this man's versatility.
And now we are really treated to an introduction to Ulrichs fine vocal talent with an incredible vocal range. Slow and deep, this album unfurled more of the mystery of life and love.
I have a good feeling that Mr Schnauss's career will continue to rise, as he is indeed a true magician, and if you listen deeply enough, you will hear he is a generous soul with a myriad of surprises up his sleeve.
This album is like a friend to me, soothing, realistic, reassuring and strong. Thanks!
His Best Album February 28, 2008
When I first heard this album, I, like many others was a bit disappointed - underwhelmed. However the more you play it the better and better it gets and I personally now consider it to be Ulrich's best album to date. There is a dark, ethereal, moody, intense feel throughout and each track is far deeper and more thought provoking than on previous albums - "A Song About Hope" is my absolute favourite, the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end everytime I hear the breathy melody kick in and soar.
Fantastic stuff Ulrich, and if this is indeed your swan song (I dearly hope it's not) it is truly bloody fitting.
A Great Album Trying to Burst Out!!! February 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was not really a fan of Ulrich Schnauss before this album came out so I was not in a hurry to get it, when I did listen to it I was not really sure what I thought about it. After a few listens it is fair to say that Mr Schnauss has the potential to be a big star possibly even cross that tough bridge that crosses over from electronic music to the mainstream pop world.
My main problem with this album and the downfall of the album is that it sounds very badly produced to me. Imagine putting on a CD then getting a couple of cotton wool balls and sticking them in your ear, that is what listening to this album sounds like.
It has a very very distorted basey sound to it which makes it very uncomfortable for me to listen to, I have messed with my settings to try and get the perfect sound but no joy there, I am not sure if he was planning for it to sound like this or not but what a pity he didn`t work more on the production.
It is a massive shame as there is some huge potential on this album, the track "stars" is just an awesome song and there is at least 3 or 4 more really good tracks which have been ruined by the production.
This could have been an album that got 3 or 4 stars from me as there is an awesome album stuck in there somewhere but because of the dire sound quality and bad production it only gets a 2 from me.
Hopefully in years to come he may go back to this album and re-record it
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