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Upon the first tones Jan takes you along for a ride on his magic carpet. Floating on this amazing aerial device that belongs in Scheherazade’s garden you are gently laid down and carried around as a floating spectator over many worlds and sceneries. It kicks off with the summer-breeze on the shores of an idyllic island by night as "Universal band Silhouette" spreads from my speakers. This faint image of a band that could be just some trees in the night, gently moving as the soft breeze breathes its summer spirits across their leaves. A band made up of waves, leaves in the wind, insects, a remote rumba band playing in some tourist resort and some more noises typical for the island. This however becomes more intriguing and repetitive as the insect get excited, instinctively incited and more nervous by the minute. Wild swarms of naturally aroused minuscule creatures spread and circle around you : "Lemmings and Lurchen Inc". Then aliens land and what seemed to be a natural phenomenon could now well be a consequence of the extra-terrestrial interference. As these visitors from a remote world land the planet seems to put on a coat of protective silence. All you hear eventually is a droning alien sound of a flying saucer like object, still making acquaintance with the terrestrial soil. As "Im Diskodickicht" passes and "Vibraphonspulen" takes over, you can see these 'Martians' leaving their saucer and heading in all directions at the same time without ever leaving. They take over the swarming behaviour of the insects they themselves actually made go wild. And you can see they like it here, they enjoy exploring and immediately they engage into some ritual dance of shared joy and excitement : "Lithiummelodie". Then the master alien, the Top-ET, the Martian Leader leaves this metallic cocoon of theirs to wander around on the newly discovered world. He quietly scans the area in a serene way as the dignity of a leader prescribes on “Planete in Halbtrauer” and then shares his judgement : he approves of our world. As his approval falls upon our worried souls during "Western Mimikry" we overcome our initial fears and start interacting with them... Nature celebrates along and life seems to return to a state of beauty and stability. But maybe the last few hidden tones of "Morphing Leadgitarre Rückwärts" do contain a different message ?
I am sure other trips can be made upon listening to this album, but the one I had seemed appropriate for an electronic album and contemporary version of a Krautrock album. Can, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Amon Duul, Popol Vuh and many other, legendary bands come to mind upon listening to this album. It holds the same imaginative qualities, the same references to space and technology, the same aspiration to overcome boundaries and borders, the same conception that time should no longer be approached merely as a linear phenomenon. No formal constraints on this album full of loops, layers and pops, cracks, ticks to bring in the variation that never follows any normal, linear pattern. It never becomes nervous though. It is an album that is calm while none of its tracks are obvious. The structure of songs is complex, the sounds range from organic to highly digitized and the musical logic and patterns of for example dance music are put to every possible test. The tracks can be distinguished though they do float into each other. They could have been longer or shorter ; it does not make a difference. Time is irrelevant, atmosphere takes over. Full immersion rules over the standard distance that rules the listening experience. In that way it is like Sun Ra's jazz. A definitive winner for early autumn 2005!!!
Upon the first tones Jan takes you along for a ride on his magic carpet. Floating on this amazing aerial device that belongs in Scheherazade’s garden you are gently laid down and carried around as a floating spectator over many worlds and sceneries. It kicks off with the summer-breeze on the shores of an idyllic island by night as "Universal band Silhouette" spreads from my speakers. This faint image of a band that could be just some trees in the night, gently moving as the soft breeze breathes its summer spirits across their leaves. A band made up of waves, leaves in the wind, insects, a remote rumba band playing in some tourist resort and some more noises typical for the island. This however becomes more intriguing and repetitive as the insect get excited, instinctively incited and more nervous by the minute. Wild swarms of naturally aroused minuscule creatures spread and circle around you : "Lemmings and Lurchen Inc". Then aliens land and what seemed to be a natural phenomenon could now well be a consequence of the extra-terrestrial interference. As these visitors from a remote world land the planet seems to put on a coat of protective silence. All you hear eventually is a droning alien sound of a flying saucer like object, still making acquaintance with the terrestrial soil. As "Im Diskodickicht" passes and "Vibraphonspulen" takes over, you can see these 'Martians' leaving their saucer and heading in all directions at the same time without ever leaving. They take over the swarming behaviour of the insects they themselves actually made go wild. And you can see they like it here, they enjoy exploring and immediately they engage into some ritual dance of shared joy and excitement : "Lithiummelodie". Then the master alien, the Top-ET, the Martian Leader leaves this metallic cocoon of theirs to wander around on the newly discovered world. He quietly scans the area in a serene way as the dignity of a leader prescribes on “Planete in Halbtrauer” and then shares his judgement : he approves of our world. As his approval falls upon our worried souls during "Western Mimikry" we overcome our initial fears and start interacting with them... Nature celebrates along and life seems to return to a state of beauty and stability. But maybe the last few hidden tones of "Morphing Leadgitarre Rückwärts" do contain a different message ?
I am sure other trips can be made upon listening to this album, but the one I had seemed appropriate for an electronic album and contemporary version of a Krautrock album. Can, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Amon Duul, Popol Vuh and many other, legendary bands come to mind upon listening to this album. It holds the same imaginative qualities, the same references to space and technology, the same aspiration to overcome boundaries and borders, the same conception that time should no longer be approached merely as a linear phenomenon. No formal constraints on this album full of loops, layers and pops, cracks, ticks to bring in the variation that never follows any normal, linear pattern. It never becomes nervous though. It is an album that is calm while none of its tracks are obvious. The structure of songs is complex, the sounds range from organic to highly digitized and the musical logic and patterns of for example dance music are put to every possible test. The tracks can be distinguished though they do float into each other. They could have been longer or shorter ; it does not make a difference. Time is irrelevant, atmosphere takes over. Full immersion rules over the standard distance that rules the listening experience. In that way it is like Sun Ra's jazz. A definitive winner for early autumn 2005!!!
