Learning to Be Silent

by C.W. Vrtacek

Learning to Be Silent cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Cordelia
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An incredibly delicate and minimalistic collection of solo piano works and sparse tape loops. The American composer eschews his usual avant-rock tendencies to construct a highly intimate, melancholic environment focused on the quiet spaces between notes.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, minimalistic, sampling, ambient, guitars, acoustic, folk, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Poison
  2. War
  3. Tumbling
  4. Inside
  5. Revenge
  6. Song For Marcel
  7. Rain
  8. Emily, Are You Happy ?
  9. Breathing
  10. Silence
  11. When
  12. Thinking
  13. Fly / Wave
  14. Picture In An Empty Frame
  15. Crooked Heart

Credits

  • Michael Gellatly - cover, artwork [label by]
  • Kim Gellatly - xylophone
  • James Woodruff - narrator
  • Marc Sichel - bass

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