WHITE EAGLE

Five years after Encore the imagination of Froese & co goes west again. "Mojave Plan" is a 20 minutes track which follows the "rule of 5". I have called "rule of 5" the fact that the side long tracks of Tangerine Dream have a change approximatively every five minutes.

This is a good track. Even if some sounds have been "adapted" to the 80s there are some passages reminding of the period of Phaedra and Ricochet and the final minute has something of the Pink Period.

I can't say the same of "Night In Tula". Taken outside of its context, and ignoring that this is Tangerine Dream it's not that bad. Those are the conditions to appreciate it. Think to an artsy release of bands like Kraftwerk or "Devo". Even though it's deeply electronic this is not what one expects from Tangerine Dream.

"Convention of the 24" is back to where TD belong. It's far from Zeit or Atem, but it's Froese at his best: a 10 minutes track coming from the 70s.

Finally the title track. On this one I hear Phaedra. Maybe a commercial version of Phaedra but still intriguing and full of the typical square waves that are distinctive of TD's sound.

A good album, really better than its predecessor and one of the best things appeared in a decade, the 80s, that has been very poor of good music.