KLAUS SCHULZE & ANDREAS GROSSER: BABEL

With the prolific Klaus Schulze (or Richard Wahnfried as he is sometimes known) releasing albums with the frequency of a daily newspaper, this 1987 album represents approximately his 20th album in 15 years. Here he collaborates with pianist Andreas Grosser, but although Grosser's is present throughout his contribution is noticeably secondary to that of Schulze.

The album consists of a single track running to around an hour, this sometimes being broken down for convenience into 13 or so sections. Entirely instrumental of course, the music is intended to represent the biblical story of Babel (or Babylon as it is more commonly known).

Much of the album to these ears indicates a rather lazy auto-pilot approach to the composition, with ambient synth sounds which move on every so often to different ambient synth sounds. It is only towards the end when sampled chorale effects join in that the music becomes reasonably interesting. The over-riding impression I was left with was of a downbeat Mike Oldfield album but with less in the way of variety of tones, moods and styles.

Had this been a one off project, it would have represented something a bit special and different. As one of the mass of output from the former Tang, "Babel" is a credible but unremarkable addition to the huge discography.

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