Edgar Froese - Ages mp3 album

A Krautrock classic. Unlike his other solo albums there is a drummer, but not at all “ruined” by it, just different. There are so many fat analog synth sounds, this alone will make it appealing to many. But there is everything else that one would and should expect from an electronic Krautrock album, meditative repetition a la Berlin-school, plenty of Mellotron, the album is just not as “spacey” as some of the other Froese and Tangerine Dream releases of this 70s era. I’d hate to think of life without this album. Pay extra for a NM 2xLP!

This is from the original double vinyl set, not the 'remixed' one. Of course, it is different tastes that EF speaks with his endless tinkering of classic period TD, and his solo catalogue, and I'm not going to judge that here. Suffice to say, this was released at about the same time as Cyclone was causing disquiet. Strange, since 'Ages' shows EF with a very distinct style of his own. Far more TD than 'Aqua' or 'Epsilon', and yet a different sense of structure. It doesn't try to be commercial or challenging, or self-indulgent, as so many solo albums get to be. Even the track names are different to the TD style ones! If you're wanting to get a good grounding of EF's solo style, this is a good starting point. The only real problem with this release is the loss of 'Golgatha and the circle closes'. This is a bad error, as with any editing of double albums to cram them onto single CD. Please, its no big deal to release a double CD for a double album.!

Great solo album from the founder of Tangerine Dream. I especially like the older releases because the soundscapes of electronic sounds are very good combined to a mental journey. I also like the dark and a raw atmosphere with typical TD strings in here. A lot of these tracks are comparably to the '70-'80 album of Tangerine Dream. Buy it blind if you see it...