Advantages: Nice hypnotic grooves and soloing. Disadvantages: Overlong, can be boring in parts.
Klaus Schulze has released so much old material in boxed sets or re-issues in the past 10 years that it almost passed my notice that he hasn't released a straight forward new studio album for ages. And here it is, supposedly a "fan pleasing" album featuring a mix of his famed 70s sequencer style with his more rhythmic contemporary sound. The end result is rather a joyful upbeat album for Schulze. The standard overlong tracks are still there, but ... ...they pass by remarkably quickly.
The 30 minute "Playmate In Paradise" is really a track in two halves. The first is his standard contemporary style of rhythmic backbeats with only very sparse soloing. The track is built up very slowly (as is Schulze's style, why rush?) Just as you think it is going on for far to long, it is enhanced by Thomas Kagermann providing wordless vocals which sound Middle Eastern. A pleasant start which ends up fading into ...
Boolbar 06.07.2007
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