Minds in Motion
Horizonte Reflektion
What a cracking album! ‘Flammentanz’ gets straight into one of many superb sequences which dominate this CD. The lead lines however are also exquisite. They never meander, instead pin sharp melodies help you on a journey from one waterfall of notes to the next. ‘Black Power Play’ sounds similar to Edgar Froese's ‘Stuntman’ album, the lead lines reminding me of ‘Drunken Mozart in the Desert’ or ‘Detroit Snackbar Dreamer’. What’s more the sequences are also absolutely brilliant both in form and the sounds used. We are less than fifteen minutes into this album and I just know by now some of you who bought it will be putting it in your all time top 10. This is superbly composed sequencer music and it certainly doesn’t sound improvised, the melodies are too well constructed and the overall production is very clean. There isn’t the same use made of synth pads to flesh out the sound as you find on many EM CDs. Instead the space left is itself used to heighten the effect and makes the sequences stand out even more.

The twenty five minute ‘Zyklus der Gefuhle’ is next. The first three minutes are used to set the scene then a wonderful sequence starts up. We get a lull at the half way mark but another sequence quickly develops and starts to twist and turn through one mutation to the next. I don’t know how easy it would be to perform this live but I wish I could afford to bring them over to Jodrell Bank, they would go down a storm! ‘Himmelsturmer’ develops the sequence very slowly but when it is in full flow it starts to dawn on me that Mind’s in Motion definitely have their own style in sequencing, nothing outlandish but it will put them in a good position for the future as it makes them that little bit different. The sequence really starts to crank up in the second half of the track and yet again the lead melody is just fantastic.

‘Zwielicht’ is a rather moody closing track, the sequence being very restrained. It does however ideally demonstrate another side to the band. One of the lead lines even sounded like something from another Edgar Froese album, ‘Pinnacles’. (DL)

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