HOENIG & GÖTTSCHING: EARLY WATER

Hoenig gets a bad rap it seems, like he's the red headed stepchild of the Berlin school. I'd argue his admittedly small recorded output is as creative if not more than what Manuel Gottsching and his Ash Ra group were doing. Same with Tangerine Dream. Hoenig's proper studio release Departure from the Northern Wasteland in seventy eight was a left field addition to the burgeoning electronic almost new age music scene and this was recorded prior to that, after Gott released seminal New Age of Earth. This does go on long like Gott seminal E2E4 but is very palatable in small doses or atmospheric window dressing. Plus my kids think it's cool I own a few forty five minute long songs.