Silent Heaven

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]

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)

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 is 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