It’s sort of like Gail Simone’s dystopian graphic novel, Leaving Megalopolis where the super heroes, who once were protectors of the city, now have become killing machines destroying the good people of Megalopolis.Īfter my first run-in with Raum, it didn’t grab me on the first listen. But getting out of the city can be tricky and very hard at times. There’s some strong momentum by opening these massive grey clouds and bringing in this gorgeous sunlight to clear out those messy rainy days that we’ve been having for a long, long time.įacing some of those sequences in the title-track, you can feel the walls cracking and you have no idea if you have a plan B to make a quick run out of the city. The closing number brings to mind on where the future will be heading next into the 22nd century. As we are in our houses, getting comfy, and taking some chill pills, Tangerine Dream head out with one more giant piece that clocks in at 14 minutes. Next, it jumps into the ocean by taking listeners into exotic locations which are filled with stories that are being told in front of our very eyes for what the band are doing. From that, there’s Pachelbel-sque loop motif in D and the visual scenery of modern civilisation. You feel the ambience, the meditation, calm surroundings, and travelling at the speed of light to keep those pumping irons up and running. The sixth track has some bubbly effects that takes you into the Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico and Lebanon’s Cave of the Three Bridges which have these magical and hypnotic skylights, filling up our atmosphere channeling the Autobahn years from Kraftwerk.īut then we head back down to Earth in the years of Film Scoring that the band travel back into the Sorcerer years with ‘You’re Always on Time.’ You hear clocks ticking, and Hoshika’s violin making it sound like an action-packed arrangement as the group make their way home for the 19-minute composition, ‘In 256 Zeichen’. Did I forget to mention that there’s some beautiful mellotron vibes to the mix? Once you hear it, you might want to tug your heart hearing that sound once more. There are some amazing vibes that are thrown into this epic fantasy that the group bring forth to this composition. One being a ladder climb to the first half of Rubycon, with some 8-bit structures from the NES game, The Legend of Zelda. Both ‘Along the Canal’ and ‘What You Should Know About’ is a return back to their golden years from Virgin Records. You can hear synthesisers doing this call-and-response with one another while having these noir-like chases that keeps you guessing until the curtain opens up by revealing a natural surroundings of watery landscapes.
The dance beat on ‘Portiro’ gets you up-and-running. ‘Continuum’ begins with a heavenly synth choir introduction before the beatbox electro-drum beat sets up a train ride into another journey that begins with mid-spec vibrations going from tunnel to another. So let’s take a deep dive into the chamber space for Raum. And I wasn’t so sure on how I would react to it after I put my earphones to experience what I was about to explore. This is the second release since Froese’s passing. Now in 2022, the band’s next release Raum, features more of the archival recordings from Edgar as the band are preparing a UK tour titled, From Virgin to the Quantum Years. It was based on sketches and musical ideas that Froese left and a companion to their mini release Quantum Key in 2015.
In 2017, the Post-Froese era began with their 150th release and their 30th main studio release with Quantum Gate. But in April of that year, they decided to continue. Inspiring bands and artists like Steven Wilson, The Future Sound of London (The Amorphous Androgynous), Cut Copy, and Susumu Hirasawa. They were the band that broke all barriers from krautrock, electronic music, new wave, and post-punk. When Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream passed away at the age of 70 on January 20th, 2015, it was the end of an era.
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