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PHAEDRA

Tangerine Dream

 

Progressive Electronic

4.16 | 924 ratings

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alainPP
4 stars 1. Phaedra begins gloomy, for those who don't know; a joyful, cheerful, or almost embellished start for those who know; sound from the abyss, the back to the future sequence is already there, but we will have to wait for the next album; this reverberation associated with the sidereal high sound, this powerful bass, this sound coming from hyper space... really no need to smoke to get high; at the limit of sound outside the cosmos where the noise becomes white, well there we are still well placed to listen to this birth of stars, yes there near Proxima; the stereo sound that scratches your ears, suddenly a solar wind, the concentrated spleen, the head shakes suddenly, that's it, I'm amazed, bewitched; it accelerates, it grows, it rumbles, yes we are attracted by a musical black hole; halfway through after a haven of peace, the sound starts again, amplifies, coagulates you, invades you, a cosmic musical rape, well where are we going? it accelerates dangerously, I no longer control anything, the sound becomes colorful, it saturates, that's it, we have gone beyond our galaxy... the white sound is there in front of us, it speaks to us with a puddle of notes from '2001'; Geiger counter, owl from beyond the grave, from beyond space, bats neighing, this title is stunning; the sound now on a Herzog film with the POPOL VUH in the spotlight, reincarnation dawns here; stellar angels come to knock against the solar boats to help them get started, yes we cannot stay near the stellar Styx, we would melt; the finale is after the grandiloquence, a moment of simply heightened plenitude; the slap... white; schoolyard, we did not die after all, the cries of the children reassuring us to the fullest, in short we were at the dawn of a great journey

2. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares with a rustling of waves and a roar of air; the piece that fuses cold synthetics with warm emotion for a perfect musical oxymoron; how to vibrate in an explosion of notes, how to listen without falling with admiration, how to get up after this adorable, sinister melancholy? The sound changes suddenly, becomes more serious, searching for itself, meditative, the bass behind you you turn around, bam in front to the right a villainous wave with a barrel of notes makes you waver; ah yes Jean Michel listened to it before his 'Oxygène'; bubbles of water, air, spirit, souls? sound bubbles for sure; the waves diminish and let the wind pass... stellar of course 3. Movements Of A Visionary for the most evangelical piece in the spirit of 'Beaubourg' with musical research worthy of the International Musical Research Foundation, which I listened to religiously on shortwave before; bird noises, for me it was megaptera; it flows, it trembles, it vibrates, the sound amplifies, archaic; the Hammond, Moog or other organ gives sensitivity, emotion, the rolls of overlooped notes release an incomparable cosmic power; the sounds seem to play with our ears, with our perception, I am obliged to keep my eyes open to see where these notes come from and where they go; the galactic birds return to warn of the end 4. Sequent C' with the cold Tibetan flute, not that of the Andes; a Japanese woman if you like, the one who watches over the dead; a solemn sound about the fans who stayed in this musical space and who will not come back, yes it is possible; music has its limits which must not be exceeded.

alainPP | 4/5 |

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