WHITE EAGLE

White Eagle finds Tangerine Dream offering an album with a structure similar to some of their earlier works (a side- long electronic epic on one side, a clutch of shorter compositions on the other), but which is stylistically more akin to their chilly, cyberpunk-esque soundtrack work which would increasingly dominate their attention as the decade progressed.

Mojave Plan is a great title but aside from a note of harmonica there's little to suggest the Mojave Desert (or the Mojave people) in the side-long track, but by this point Tangerine Dream track titles had become almost arbitrary: it's all about the atmosphere, and that's what they deliver here. Don't expect the fuzzy, spacey trips of Zeit or Phaedra, but if you dig the neon, glassy sheen of 1980s synthesisers this is pretty solid.