ROCKOON

Tangerine Dream

Progressive Electronic

2.45 | 80 ratings

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jobim

I can pretty much copy and paste my review of Turn of the Tides for this album. Watch me:

This is one of the weakest albums of Tangerine Dream's history, a brand name which just ten years before released the magnificent live album Poland (1984). OK, back then we had a very different group, formed by Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling. Franke left in 1988, replaced by Paul Haslinger. We still had the half decent Optical Race and the fairly good Lily on the Beach (1989), but then Haslinger left and since then we've been having only glimpses of creativity.

Rockoon, made by Edgar Froese and Jerome, is a perfect example of TD's creative death that was the 1990s, with very few exceptions. Having one or other OK track, like (forgot its name, most of them sound the same), does not save this album. This definitely deserves 1 star, only for completionists. I had a copy and fortunately was able to resell it. The space this album was occupying in my CD shelf was more important than this music.

In fact I will even add an appendix, which serves to Turn of the Tides as well: if the two paragraphs above weren't enough, let me add that these two albums are mostly boring, uninteresting, and albums that you simply don't feel like to listen, favouring other much better work, even like other not-so-good Tangerine Dream albums such as Goblins' Club and Tyranny of Beauty.

So there you go: I don't know all the albums from the 1990s, but I'm sure on a very thick ice when I say that Rockoon and Turn of the Tides are, among other albums, in the bottom of the well of the massive body of work that carries the name of Tangerine Dream.

And that is very sad. Listen for example two 220 Volt Live, from 1992, the same year of Rockoon: it's a lively, creative and very enjoyable album. One of the exceptions in that period.

jobim | 1/5 | 2005-9-16

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