Silent Heaven

Compilation album by C.W. Vrtacek

Released

March 12, 1996

Recorded

1985 – 1988 at Vrtacek's household

Genre

Electronic

Length

77:09

Label

Cuneiform

Producer

C.W. Vrtacek

C.W. Vrtacek chronology

Days of Grace
(1992)

Silent Heaven
(1996)

Fifteen Mnemonic Devices
(1999)

Silent Heaven is a compilation album by composer C.W. Vrtacek, released on March 12, 1996 through Cuneiform Records. It comprises two of Vrtacek's out-of-print records, Learning to Be Silent and When Heaven Comes to Town.^[1]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Allmusic critic François Couture found Vrtacek's work to be "very aerial" and that "one can't help but think of Steve Hackett's Bay of Kings: simple songs with beautiful melodies." He gave Silent Heaven three out of five stars, noting that "some will perceive it as lacking sustenance, but it is refreshing to hear Vrtacek away from the surf guitar licks."^[2]

Track listing

All music composed by C.W. Vrtacek.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Poison"	1:20
2.	"War"	1:05
3.	"Tumbling"	3:30
4.	"Inside"	1:11
5.	"Revenge"	2:13
6.	"Song for Marcel"	1:59
7.	"Rain"	2:07
8.	"Emily, Are You Happy?"	3:21
9.	"Breathing"	1:01
10.	"Silence"	0:24
11.	"When"	1:42
12.	"Thinking"	3:16
13.	"Fly/Wave"	6:01
14.	"Picture in an Empty Frame"	5:05
15.	"Minus My Friend"	1:33
16.	"History of the Heart, Mystery of the Mind"	1:35
17.	"Part of Me Here, Part of Me With You, Always"	1:20
18.	"Stone Steps"	1:17
19.	"Preparing the Bridge (For Heaven)"	5:09
20.	"Saying Goodbye to the Beauty and Complexity of Life on Earth"	5:42
21.	"When Heaven Comes to Town"	26:16

Personnel

Myles Davis – mixing
Steven Feigenbaum – production
Paula Millet – design
Lucinda Wilde Pinchot – photography
C.W. Vrtacek – synthesizer, acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, xylophone, ukulele, tape, production, engineering, mixing, recording

References

↑ "C.W.VRTACEK". cuneiformrecords.com. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
1 2 Couture, François. "Silent Heaven". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2012.

C.W. Vrtacek

Solo

Studio albums	Victory Through Grace Days and Days Learning to Be Silent When Heaven Comes to Town Fifteen Mnemonic Devices By Chance

Compilations	Days of Grace Silent Heaven

Forever Einstein

Artificial Horizon
Opportunity Crosses the Bridge
One Thing After Another
Down With Gravity
Racket Science

with Biota

Object Holder
Invisible Map
Half a True Day

Other projects

Monkey on a Hard Roll
Preacher in Naked Chase Guilty

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