The 50th (??) album from this band from Germany.
The band was a duo with a lineup of Edgar and Jerome Froese doing all the synths and computers.
I know very little about Tangerine Dream and the development and the different phases of their music and career. From what I gather, this fifty minutes long album, their first post-millenium album, was a break with their 1990s tradition of more disco and techno dominated albums.
The album title reminds me about the famous book and movie of Heinrich Harrier, the conquerer of the Eiger Nordwand (the most infamous big wall climb in Europe) and his years in Tibet after escaping the POW camp in India. A classic book I have read many times.
The music is really positive and uplifting. I was expecting a lot of Tibetan and Asian music here. I was wrong. The music is mostly ambient with an European soundscape throughout. Hence, I am left a bit disappointed.
OK, there are some, but still far too few references to Tibet here as the music takes in the massive ambient landscapes of the Tibetean plateau. A vast barren landscape thousands of meters above sea level.
The music is still bright and is full of light.
The music is also decent enough but does not offer much else than ambient landscapes. This is not a bad album at all.
2 points
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