Silur

"Silur" is the second full-length release by Tarwater, an electronic music group from Berlin, Germany. The album debuted on September 28, 1998. The album combines spartan spoken-word narration with ambient, electronic music. [cite web
title = Tarwater
publisher = Epitonic.com
date = 2001-08-10
url = http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Ftarwater.html
accessdate = 2008-08-19] The music mainly consists of looped samples layered with live instruments. The instruments used were not those commonly used in pop-rock music. For example, the flute is commonly used throughout the album. [cite web
title = To Rococo Rot and Tarwater
publisher = Piero Scaruffi
date = 1999
url = http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/torococo.html
accessdate = 2008-08-19]

The album received some criticism for failing to maintain the same tone consistently throughout the album. The first five songs feature a slow, deliberate, almost ethereal tone. The mood is interrupted by the sixth song, "No More Extra Time," an up-tempo synth-pop song. [cite web
title = Tarwater
url = http://www.kitty-yo.net/wp/artists/tarwater/
accessdate = 2008-08-19] The album's seventh song reverts back to the mood of the first five, however subsequent songs are progressively more pop-like than ambient.

Track listing

#"Visit"
#"To Moauf"
#"The Watersample"
#"Seafrance Cezanne"
#"Silur"
#"No More Extra Time"
#"Otomo"
#"Ford"
#"The Pomps Of The Subsoil"
#"20 Miles Up"
#"To Describe You"
#"V-AT"

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