EPITAPH FOR VENUS

This record brought me a strong vision of a cosmic voyage, and after contemplating the elements of the music and the experience which it gave to me, I'm ready to claim this as a real masterpiece. The trip begins with sequencer runs resembling Tangerine Dream's early recordings. But as the music moves forward, its nature turns to towards more symbolic sound ambiences, where atonal layers of distant analog synthesizers paint slowly moving Magellans to the vast void of space, Random mechanical noises and humming resonate from the hulls of mechanical space vehicles and satellites, thus creating a very dense and powerful feeling of really being on a travel through cosmos. As the distances and measures of the universe are enormous, also the movements of this record progress slowly and also in minimalistic manner. Thus the listener should be able to appreciate hypnotic and slow music with little events in order to get kicks from this album. I do so, as long as the sounds and musical ideas are aesthetically pleasing. These warm analogue tones did please me very much, and I also adored the lovely psychedelic album cover. There has been interesting discussions about this record being fake, not being part of the original early 1970's space-kraut movement but a recording of later time, being in some success hoaxed to be part of the first wave of the scene. I do not have any opinions related to that, but find these investigations welcome. Even spite those, I would offer my warmest recommendations of this album for all who are interested of ambient and space themed music. Just do your homework before buying "the original press" with four-numbered amount from any auctions or such.