KLAUS SCHULZE & LISA GERRARD: FARSCAPE

Klaus Schulze and Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard had apparently wanted to collaborate for some time, but it was only in 2007 that they were able to get together and produce Farscape, an expansive double album cramming the full length of its 2 CDs with Klaus's spacey keyboards and Lisa's ethereal vocals. The combination works far better than I expected it would, and it easily manages to fill two full CDs with decent material - certainly, few other musical acts could put out an album quite so long which retains a particular atmosphere right up to the final chord - and I'm particularly impressed at how well it fits both into the context of Klaus's own discography and into the sort of musical territory Gerrard explored with Dead Can Dance. That said, I can't help but think that there isn't quite enough in the way of interesting textures to allow this one to challenge either Schulze or Gerrard's own best work.