TIME ACTOR

Richard Wahnfried

Progressive Electronic

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

philippe
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR
Honorary Collaborator

This is a dehumanised, cold, aseptic technoid ambient album from Klaus Schulze (with Arthur Brown as singer). Each composition is almost the same, developping similar synth waves floating in a spacious environnement, insistent repetitive electronic pulses and Arthur Brown's narratives, partly excentric vocals. It contains no variations, suffering of a lack of creativity and invention, very mechanical and definitely uni dimentional. The musical style is pretty similar to face B from Dune but less consistent and without emotion (despite an honest and glacial-seductive "charming the wing" with Arthur Brown's great lyrical voice). This is a ryhtmical, electronic beat album, linear and without reliefs. The musical background is very minimal and doesn't enable Arthur Brown to express his genius. Klaus Schulze should have been concentrated on dark, gothic, haunted organ chords (similar to Irrlicht and Cyborg), Arthur Brown would give the best on it. "Time Actor" is terribly conformist, empty and non human. To avoid!

Report this review (#148385)
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | Review Permalink

dr.oblivion

Maybe this is not typical Schulze's work, but the result is not so bad. The first two songs are techno-beet-driven avantgarde pieces, and can be viewed as one long poem in two parts, because a lot of similarities. In my opinion this is the best part of the album. The next two songs are slower (and quieter), more ambient and reminds me of some works by Brian Eno in the 90's (though only occasionally), and again, they are very similar. Dissorted emission (cello is most pronounced here) is a techno-krautrock connection with shizoid vocals, much like a longer songs number 6 and 7 . Agamemory style stands out from other songs and I think it could be excluded from the album. And again, it might be a reason for some to accept this song. Arthur Brown's most narrative vocal fits well with the music, but the collaboration on the album Dune gave better results. Conclusion-The first half of the album is somewhat better: 3, the rest of the album: 2 together: -3!

Report this review (#449460)
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2011 | Review Permalink

RICHARD WAHNFRIED Time Actor ratings only

chronological order | showing rating only

DallasBryan
drain-o (Jacques Brenier)
JuanRafael (Juan Rafael Zamorano)
lord777lord7 (Kuehne, Axel)
THX1138
ProckROGue (Chris)
HarryAngel746 (Maciej) COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
EDABarret
karolcia (Piotr Lachowicz)
kadets (ryan)
Gordy (El Gringo del Mundo) SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team

Post a review of RICHARD WAHNFRIED Time Actor

You must be a forum member to post a review, please register here if you are not.

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).