Pentamerous Metamorphosis

Love this especially when working from home! Got me through lockdown!

Finally we have a reissue of this classic album at an affordable price. Original copies are hard to find and very expensive so this is welcome. The mastering and 180 gm vinyl quality are high quality. A lot of care has gone into this reissue. Originally released in 1993 the music has aged beautifully. You will barely notice any of Chapterhouse in this treatment where Global Communications have turned their music into lush soundscapes. This reissue may well become rare like it's predecessors so snap it up. You won't regret it.

Epic album

The rumours are true Global Communications themselves have just announced a re-master from the original DAT.The original DATs are the property of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton.Their reissue also includes the 76:14 album which also has been reissued by MOV.So whilst I'm sure this sounds fine its pointless on vinyl as you may as well just listen to the excellent CD from the 1990s.Personally Id rather stump up the cash for any support the artists that have made music I've enjoyed for 25 years or more.

Who would have thought that you could take 5 tracks by a long forgotten bunch of indie shoe-gazers (even that genre name is forgotten now!)and turn them into a collection that can only be described as a monument.This is the kind of record about which I would say that if you have never heard this, I envy you. Some of the stylistic touches now sound a trifle dated but the overall content is still deeply affecting.Alpha Phase is a massive opening track and the closing Epsilon Phase features a very clever use of ghostly vocals but for me the standout is Beta Phase. A long droning intro weaves itself into a gorgeous melody and when the deep sub bass drops in they'll be scraping you off the ceiling! Listening to this music while high in the Alps on a beautiful spring day is one of the defining moments of my life.In other words: this is quite good. Purchase it.

If you thought 76:14 was great, this is even better. 5 tracks, which add up to about an hour of breathtaking ambience par excellence. I'd be wasting my time trying to describe the tracks, most of which are return-journeys to epic soundscapes (if that makes any sense!) with only Kosmas Epsilon's track 5 breaking this formula. If you get the chance, by all means buy this!

Another classic from the band who brought 76:14, Pentamerous Metamorphosis is a collection of 5 ambient songs (again without discriptive titles merely Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon Phase). The first (my personal favourite) is a progressive piece around 17 minutes which starts with slowly mutating synths building to a climactic multi-textural soundscape towards the end before settling down again for the conclusion. All these tracks transport the listener to alien locations mixing acoustic and synthetic for an 'altered reality' sonic imagery. This is a very difficult album to find but those who are sucessful in purchasing this album will be greatly rewarded with just over 1 hour of pure ambient bliss.

I recieved this a few days ago and I've already listened to it at least a dozen times. A track by Chapterhouse remixed out of recognition 5 times; it doesn't sound very exciting, but this is one of my favourite ambient albums (and I've heard hundreds).