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This mid-1980s Tangerine Dream album offers up more breezy synth music in the New Agey vein they'd been working in at around this time - of the rest of their discography it perhaps is the closest to Underwater Sunlight in style, which makes sense given their close proximity in recording and release. The twist this time around is that Jocelyn B. Smith is here to add some solemn vocals to the proceedings, borrowing heavily from William Blake (hence the title). It works reasonably well; Tangerine Dream hadn't really experimented with vocals since Cyclone, but then again they were a very different now than they were then, having left their 1970s spaciness behind in favour of producing crisp, clean 1980s synth work suitable for soundtrack use. Pretty good, but not a classic.