Another of the Amble Harbour purchases - a couple of quid for a Tangerine Dream album that I hadn't previously heard of.
I'm well aware that the affection and worship which Kraftwerk maintained long past the 1970s hasn't necessarily been maintained for the Tangs, but it's got to be worth a listen, hasn't it?
It opens with Catwalk, very much a contemporary dance feel to it, until Gerald Gradwohl's acoustic guitar solo kicks in and it no longer feels like Tangerine Dream, followed by Birdwatcher's Dream, an instrumental which goes nowhere, doesn't feel even particularly electronic, and is reminiscent of a natural history documentary backing track. And most of the rest feels like that. Uninspired instrumentals with guitar tracks overlaid, very much not what you buy a TD album for. Even an update of Stratosphear fails to get the juices flowing as you'd expect, even if it's an improvement on the new stuff on here.
If you want some laid back, unremarkable ambient background with a guitar top, this is for you, but if you're after experimental electronic pioneering, forget it.
2* - not actively awful, but certainly not what you buy a Tangerine Dream album for.
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