Edgar Froese

Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

Edgar Froese's debut solo venture predates Tangerine Dream's breakthrough 1974 album PHAEDRA, but I’m sure it was used as a building block for the latter success because musically both albums are from the same school of minimal ambient soundscapes.

Aqua, which is most certainly more than 'just something to keep the fans quiet', was recorded using revolutionary binaural sound techniques which meant that when listened to through headphones, the music 'opened and captivated the mind', and certain sounds sounded as if there were coming from outside of the headphones.

The album is made up of four tracks with the opening title track, Aqua usually being the one to garner the majority of credit because of the revolutionary water sounds mixed into the various synth sounds. I would, however tip my hat to the closing Upland which despite being the shortest track on the record at six minutes long, has some fantastic 'horror' sounding synths over the numerous bubbling electronics.


42,33 Mb

Edgar Froese - Epsilon in malaysian pale (1975)

When I first heard this album in 1975 I was knocked out - it is so evocative of the night time train journeys that I made then. Froese has managed to replicate the atmosphere of the humid jungle not by sound effects such as insect noises etc. but by the ambience of the whole album - something almost beyond hearing. As an album for fans of electronic musically generally this is superb.


29,98 Mb