CATCH WAVE

On Catch-Wave, Takehisa Kosugi's skillfully warped and manipulated violin tones acquire a drone-based electronic quality reminiscent of a visitor from the universe of Tangerine Dream's Zeit. It's a masterful and powerful effect, and whilst both Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze had kind of thoroughly mined this particular vein already, Kosugi is still able to craft a few gems which will pique the interest of folks interested in proto-Berlin School electronic music featuring a non-electronic instrument or two. File alongside the various Fripp and Eno albums in the "I didn't know you could make that instrument sound like that" section. Four stars, just about.