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An incandescent meteorite menacingly suspended before crashing within a seemingly endless perspective, this is how this work by Tangerine Dream from 1979 presents itself, reduced to a duo following Baumann's departure and the brief, unfortunate Cyclone interlude.
Play: and you are overwhelmed by a chorus of synthetic voices, powerful, immense, and evanescent, like the Introitus from Mozart's Requiem. Then, a very brief acoustic guitar riff introduces you to a sumptuous suite of electronic rock that could have been written by the best Pink Floyd, ending unexpectedly with a geometrically organized sound structure by the drum box, reminiscent of Bach the musician-mathematician of The Art of Fugue... this album is indeed a tribute to the classical symphony, not by chance, on the back of the cover, a portrait of Beethoven stands out (distorted, transfigured, reduced to a metamorphosis of the aforementioned meteorite).
Here, in summary, are Tangerine Dream in their finest form, alas never to be found again, with a record that is original, powerful, elegant. Indispensable.
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