CONTAKT

A variety of Moog synth, oscillator & sampling for an imaginative electronic album. From what I know about the guy, the musical sensibility is here really more orientated to synthesised sounds than before. The proto-electronic gadgets and primitive experiments of the first solo albums have gone. A large part is reserved for surreal, haunted soundscapes. Not turbulent, noisy and stormy but more into a dark, atmospheric ambience. The pieces are well elaborated, rather abstract and transparent, with "loops" & obsessional harmonics. A bit conventional if we make a comparison with home-made experimental, amplified semi-acoustic albums as "Eruption" or Kluster's "Klopfzeichen" and "Zwei Osterei". This is electronic music but closer to the mark of quality offered by "cosmic" synthesists (Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese...) than to sound installations defined for conceptual art. An accessible and representative album for beginners.