BEZIEHUNGEN

This is certainly not an easy album to listen to, and also not an easy album to review. It is one of the most extreme albums using free-form improvisation; the first album of Annexus Quam had much more structure. The music has its inspired moments and is at times beautiful even, especially in "Leyenburg 1", but one has to be in the right mood (in essence be really stoned) to be able to listen to this album. While "Osmose", their first album (which had one of the most intersting gimmick covers of all time in the vinyl version, by the way) managed to get to the point in the improvisations, the improvisations on "Beziehungen" often seem to lose the thread. Hence only 3 stars for this album.