![]() This musical work goes far deeper than just ambience. ![]() This is an album that will never leave my collection.Ī “Must Have” companion to your early clan of Xymox library. An absolute masterpiece that deserves so much better than it received. Pieter and Michael created an ambient stratosphere all their own. music that makes you want to dive into your soul… all time classic, a masterpiece. I’m listening to it today, 21 years after its release. And though some of its content delves into the Goth and ambient genres, it easily avoids the former's self-indulgent melodramatics and the latter's vacuousness.” ![]() But Sleeps With The Fishes is just such an album. Not too many albums have such a perfectly-realized mood and atmosphere, one that draws you into its haunting world and stays with you long after the last song ends. And it maintains that sad, beautiful sensation throughout its length. “Pieter Nooten’s Sleeps With The Fishes is adept at taking what should be morose music and converts it into something resplendent. The authentic tracks of this classic album were actually bedroom recordings by Pieter Nooten produced on a simple -at this time out of date-computer. The result was a quiet album of fragile songs and dreamlike soundscapes entitled Sleeps With The Fishes". Release data: Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook Sleeps with the Fishes CD, 4AD, 1987 Sleeps With The Fishes is the excellent outcome of a collaboration between musician Pieter Nooten and ambient, experimental guitarist Michael Brook. He suggested a team-up with guitarist/producer Michael Brook, who had been working with Brian Eno as well as recording for Eno's Opal label. ![]() "By late 1987, Pieter Nooten had left Clan Of Xymox, but Ivo continued to be intrigued by the tapes Pieter would send him. Album : Sleeps With The Fishes Label: 4AD Released: 1987
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