THE TREE HATES THE FOREST

So if mostly everyone is recreating his dad´s harvest why not Jerome Froese, Edgar´s offspring.

Alongside also former Tangerine Dream member Johannes Schmoelling & electronic musician Robert Waters, Jerome takes off to kind of rebuild an independent electronic project band and christenings it LOOM.

Well as you know the apple rarely falls far from its tree, even if "The Tree Hates The Forest" (2013), as this 10 track album is named.

Now as I know I am talking to quiet few readers I have to declare I have no ties or obligation to no band or musician but the great expectation whatsoever of listening to great music, but mostly if it is original in its composition, which by no means can be substituted with new instruments or new-flanged sounds.

TD was a monster band in these fields. Its shadow is huge, and yes, well deserved. Most of the E. Prog followers expect their sound even when listening to other fellow musicians. They would rave over this undercovered version of a "modern" TD, which updates their sound in contemporary terms as far as sound engineering and sounds as such go.

But as I mentioned even if this album is full of very original and enticing sections it also shows in between lots of borrowed ideas from the dream team, which actually withhold what could have been a very good first full album. But then again this is a first release which promises, if it frees itself from personal attachments, a better output next time.

As far as the rating goes, as mentioned, a must for TD´s hard core followers. For the rest a very good first but kind of angers me the fact that the excellent & original sections are overshadowed blatantly, more than once or thrice, with borrowed musical language.

3.5 stars.