DIE MULDE

As a founding and omnipresent member of Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Gottsching also created some solo albums in the complex world of progressive electronic music, toghether with Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. This album is another MG "in the mood",more closer to progressive electronic, than krautrock. It begins with Schopferische stille ( translated Creative silence),a nice sound effect, in a pure space rock style. After 2 minutes, the synth music enters its way with "Die Mulde". Manuel uses here repetitive keyboards themes, similar to Klaus Schulze. "Die Spiegel" is another mesmerising space rock composition, maybe a little bit minimalistic. The sound evolves in a different way towards "Zerfluss", the only rhythmic track with some percussion beats. "HP little cry" (HP- a reference to Hewlett Packard,? I don't know...) can be for many a very boring composition, (for almost 32 minute) because of its hallucinant background sound. The difference is his guitar, in which MG is a master. The guitar sounds very experimental and sublime in the same time, with a little Pink Floydian resemblance. Overall, the album is good, nothing new. Manuel is improvising with new and new mixtures of guitar and synths. A good album for progressive electronic lovers.

3 stars!