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Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

Genre: Ambient, Berlin School Electronic

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"Aqua" is the first solo album of Edgar Froese, the founder of Tangerine Dream, an album recorded in early 1974, on the wave of the band's international success, "Phaedra". The album shows how great Edgar's compositional input was in these ancient times. Sadly, this wasn't so in the 1980s. For this reason, and because of the objective qualities of Aqua, I dare say that this album is a must-have for all Tangerine Dream fans, especially those who love the band's music from the early period - and for those who like good electronic music with an experimental bent.

'Aqua', the long title track, is a long moody suite, which is dream-like, nostalgic, detached. With just organs and early 'analog' synthesizers, Edgar Froese paints musical landscapes which seem to be a journey into the unknown. Captivated, you will be listening to this track over and over again. I claim that there is hardly better music to accompany reading. With a minimal instrumentarium, Froese was able to deliver so much emotion, so much soul-inspiring content, that it's hard to believe. None of his later albums are as good as this one. This is a masterpiece of electronic music.

'NGC891', another long suite, starts with a lovely analog sound imitating the aircraft sound, you know the one; I am sure you have spent endless hours as a kid out there, in the open field, in the forest, in the meadow, inspecting bugs, wonders of nature in complete silence, to suddenly hear this distant roar of a supersonic aircraft, startling you for a second or two. For me, this is the album of impressions from my childhood. Then, after a few minutes, a bubbling basso continuo enters, and the track becomes a fast journey into the clouds of imagination. With Chris Franke's help, Froese augmented 'NGC891' with a Moog synthesizer bass passage which will set any audiophile of electronic music on their knees. The remaining tracks, 'Upland' and 'Panorphelia' constitute musical experiments much in the vein of the then-recent Tangerine Dream albums, "Atem" and "Phaedra".

When I was 8 years old, I visited Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's museum in southern Poland, where mouth-agape, I admired the fantastic experimental pictures of the malign artist. The small museum in a wooden cottage made a long-lasting impression on the young moose, also because the musical background was as mysterious as the paintings themselves. The old tape-player churned out sounds which were fascinating, and since I have always had a penchant for being lost in thoughts, I was mesmerized. I asked the attendant what the music was, and it turned out to be Edgar Froese. Being unable to pronounce the name, I memorized it, and only years later I recalled this adventure. However, "Aqua", since it was this album that I was hearing in the museum, planted a seed in my young soul, fertilized my imagination. Well, I have listened to Tangerine Dream and Edgar Froese all my life and I am happy to have discovered this music so early. Thus, if you are the dreaming type of person, you might enjoy this album as much as I do. if your children are small bookworms, if they have an introvert, introspective nature, perhaps you could play this album to them during evenings, silently in the background, while you read or tell them stories. Trust me, it will be the experience they will never forget.

Tracklisting:

1. Aqua (17:00)

2. Panorphelia (9:41)

3. NGC 891 (14:01)

4. Upland (6:41)

Total Time: 47:23

Line-Up:

- Edgar Froese / keyboards

- Chris Franke / keyboards

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