AN ARABESQUE

You have to have either a surreal sense of humor or an otherwise uncontrollable memory craving for the 80´s early 90 ´s dark/cold synth wave movement which ends up being "cliched compiled" by the experimental electronic music ensemble Cloudland Canyon: An Arabesque.

I myself enjoyed immensely some of those bands like Propaganda, Yello, Tuxedomoon, Gary Numan & some others. But in 2016, the date of this release, it is kind of senseless to plunge into this wave if you are not going deeper than surface level, more if you are the flexible, highly experimental combo who usually does exactly that.

A clean cut retro plunge influenced by Blondie, Gary Numan, Ultravox,The Human League, DM & other synth/techno similar acts spiced with nowadays noise/drone recording techniques played mostly around its safety lines, very well done by the way, but if you are going to play this stuff that was just the first of many other future steps.

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