Rainbow Serpent Silver Blue (Reissue) Play Sample:   56K Dialup   Broadband   Download Sample:   500K   1.5Mb (Excerpt from track(s) 'In Trance')

Like 'Cutted Scenes' the tracks run into each other providing a superb continuous listening experience. No wasting time, straight into the sequence with 'Skydance'. A heavy beat thuds over the top, getting as close as this album gets to dance territory but it doesn't overstep the mark. At just under four minutes delicate melodies start to come and go weaving round each other tricking the senses.

In some ways this reminded me of more recent Schulze of Wahnfried. At seven minutes calm descends, another sequence picking up close to the end which carries us into 'In Trance'. A rhythm plays over a hellish montage of sounds and a high register sequence delicately floats over the top of a deeper more menacing sequence that comes to join it. The way the two sequences combine with the snare rhythm and effects is masterly but when the main lead comes in at eight and a half minutes it will make you go weak at the knees. Klaus Schulze is again the obvious influence here but condensed. Another stunning track.

'Lightstorm' uses a note droplet type sequence over cosmic effects to form a delicate beginning but things are then beefed up with the introduction of a deep rhythm. Melodies jump from one beat to the next until a no nonsense lead line takes us to 'Visible Dreams'. Thuds sound as if a door is being blown in the wind and smashed against a wall but this then develops into a rhythm underlying the rest of the track containing some of the most devastating lead lines so far. The track ebbs and flows with loads happening, its as if months of care has gone into every sound and every melody during every second. Again, superb. 'Entrance' uses wind blown wooden chimes and washes of synth tones to create the perfect atmosphere behind at first a fast deep sequence then another driving beat.