Track Listing

1. Threshold Bells St. Paul's
2. At The End Of Time St. Paul's
3. Evensong Tallin
4. Evensong Coda Tallin
5. At The End Of Time Broad Chalke
6. Evensong Vijandi
7. Evensong Coda Vijandi
8. Futureshift Haapsalu
9. Evensong Haapsalu
10. Evensong Coda Haapsalu

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39540 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
One of the originators of the ambient music genre, Robert Fripp has expanded beyond the recording studio to create lushsoundscapes in various alternate locations. For AT THE END OF TIME, Fripp chose a collection of churches in England andEstonia and created music that is both devotional and envelope-pushing. It's not the typical soundtrack for a house of worship, but Fripp uses the cavernous spaces effectively, creating gorgeous, meandering tracks full of celestial echo.

Customer Reviews

At The End of Time is beautiful and sad abstraction
Although Robert Fripp's soundscapes series has always been interesting, very few of the CDs have been particularly listenable or coherent all the way through. The honourable exception to this was "Blessing of Tears" which used a predominantly sad mood (Mr Fripp had recently lost his mother)and subtle variations on a relatively limited theme to create a remarkably moving piece.

At the End of Time (Churchscapes)is definitely a step forward for Fripp. Although played live in several different churches, it is brilliantly edited into a cohesive whole. Whereas at times, his soundscape CDs have varied between being rather muzaky (unlike the tape-looped Frippertronics there are times when you can hardly tell that a guitar is generating the sounds) followed by almost violent outbursts of noise, this CD flows like a series of suites and definitely benefits from subtle soloing over the back-washes of sound. It is a bit like his collaboration with Brian Eno on Equatorial Stars but rather more lively and more involving with Fripp (and a bank of computers) somehow creating the whole soundpicture. It would be pointless to single out particular pieces except to say that the chiming effects and coda pieces magnificantly frame the ethereal movements between them. Fortunately you don't need to be religious for this to work on an emotional level.

Let's have more pieces like this released as carefully composed (i.e. improvised and edited) CD releases. Also,it would be great if Fripp didn't leave it another 30 years before fully collaborating with Eno again.

Get Churchscapes to Escape!!
This work..... quite simply "staggering"!!!! One could also use the word sublime as well. In fact any words of this genre would be good - none of them would be adequate though. Quite possibly the best "Soundscape" yet. Beautiful and profound. No, there are no pyrotechnics - no power playing here. No, this is refrained brilliance from a master of his craft. Recommend it? Well, of course I will and, no doubt, so will others.

Quite simply brilliant
Don't try and categorise this music. Buy it, find a quiet space, turn down the lights, concentrate and listen.