Phaedra

It’s another album by a band I’d not heard of, this time Phaedra by Tangerine Dream.

This is another different genre of music, this book is really coming through with stuff I should listen to. I mean I was always a music fan and a fan of pretty much anything (aside from generic mass produced pop music, but even there I have the occasional guilty pleasure).

This is a short album in terms of number of tracks, there are only 4…but given that the first track, Phaedra, is near 17 minutes long, the total length of the album is pretty normal.

For an album from the 1970s, this does feel a little ahead of itself. It’s electronic, and has that kind of feel to it that it wouldn’t be out of place in some of the big nightclubs these days as part of a chill out set.

While it’s not my usual musical taste, electronica is something that I do like form time to time. I enjoyed the album, there was no driving beat behind it, melodies and harmonies fade in and out, with different effects and sounds being played with. There’s no vocal track to this album, in fact I think it’s only synthesizers that are used through out the album. It means that you don’t have to think about the lyrics and you can just let the sounds wash over you.