I will call this album not a dissapointment,not a failure,but a
disaster...I am partially sorry for the words that will appear or may
appear here,but I need to confess everything about it and point out
most of all the bad parts...This album has petrified me during the 38
minutes that it lasted...It is one of the most non-succesful albums of
the year and period,if not stretching further to general
comparisons...I feel so miserable after listening to this album...It is
not a good experience...it is not...Tangerine Dream (or should I dare
say Froese?) have turned a spectacular,masterpiece,extraordinary,divine
album like Phaedra,into a remix,a tangenitized version of such low
quality,you don't feel just annoyed listening to it,you feel
offended,you feel hurt,badly hurt...Nothing of what lies in the superb
arrangements,structure and composition of the 1974 Pheadra can be
reflected here...AS I HAVE FEARED SO MUCH,for this anniversary album
has been used nothing but a slight connection towards the theme,a small
voice they considered it represents the theme of that specific
track,which is absolutely wrong,cause the magnificent Phaedra is
composed of several themes,of several voices...here in Phaedra 2005 I
don't find anything at all...
The title track is the worst of all...NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING of what
the original title track contained is reflected here...NOTHING! It is a
complete mess.Tangerine Dream have replaced one of the strongest themes
ever created by them with an ugly tangenitized version,made in rush and
in the lack of inspiration...
As for the rest of the three pieces,as I have expected,the use the
original as background layer,upon which they add several voices of
"new","fresh","contemporary" elements...a pure,classic case of
tangenitizing...
Delfi is something that,compared to the rest of the album,doesn't stand
up much at all...It melts into the rest,staying as low as the other
pieces other...
Very,very,extremely dissapointed by this album...VERY...I have expected
something like this,but not in this way...A definately regress with
Phaedra 2005...I hope I don't get the chance to hear another re-release
of classic-Golden Era-masterpieces from Tangerine Dream...