FIRESTARTER (OST)

Another soundtrack for a movie that I haven't seen. The 80s have seen TD involved with movies more than with music, even though this soundtrack is really better than Risky Business or than Wavelength.

The main reason is that the tracks are "complete". This album is not just a sequence of short comments to images, disconnected and sometimes faded out. Firestarter sounds more like a true album. Of course less that 20 minutes for a Tangerine Dream track means compressing the things and loosing the slow variations on a repetitive theme that are typical of the band since the beginnings.

At the end Firestarter sounds quite newage, even if maybe a bit too dark for that genre, but the music is very relaxing and can be enjoyed also by whom like me doesn't know anything about the movie.

It sometimes reminds me to Vangelis, specially the thin string sounds on "Testlab", that's my favorite track here, or the intro of "Burning Force" but the whole album is on this kind of sounds, like Edgar Froese has temporarily put aside the usual squared waves. there's also something of Heaven and Hell in "Between Realities".

A very interesting ambient album, good for meditation. Is it a soundtrack, too?

3.5 stars. Rounded down because this band doesn't need my stars to be appreciated.