Before the Buildings Fell

by Sam Rosenthal

Before the Buildings Fell cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Projekt
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:08
  • Community rating: 3/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An early, highly formative solo cassette release from the founder of the influential Projekt label. The project revolves around dark, brooding synthesizer passages and meditative electronic textures that would subsequently lay the groundwork for his seminal darkwave band, Black Tape for a Blue Girl.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Kathryn (8:59)
  2. Diversion (6:12)
  3. Resolution (1:48)
  4. The Room (2:35)
  5. Jane (3:39)
  6. Leading To The Edge (1:29)
  7. Before The Buildings Fell (2:45)
  8. Fragments Of Benediction (15:34)
  9. The Amber Girl (10:03)

Credits

  • Sam Rosenthal - primary artist, electronics
  • Anne Sunstrom - saxophone, effects [industry]
  • Cauleen Smith - cello
  • Lara Radford - voice, violin, effects [industry], voice

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