Tangerine Dream's Rockoon: no longer the same ....

Already desöfteren I wrote at Amazon Reviews to works of Tangerine Dream - and almost without exception they have garnered the highest rating ....
One can certainly call me a true supporter of this exceptional formation who enjoys their music for decades - unfortunately the pleasure of the present disc here called "Rockoon" not of the hoped consummate variety ....

The appeal of Tangerine Dream comes from for me of this amazing spherical and slightly dark sound paintings that sometimes need minutes, only to unfold in full force and hypnotize a ....
Unfortunately located on this CD is not a track that reaches this class - and that's more than a shame ....

Jerome Froese is certainly very good musician - but he's just not a substitute for Chris Franke, John Paul Haslinger or Schmoelling, and that makes (unfortunately) a lot of !!!!

The complete CD seems rushed - no song will be given the opportunity to build TD-moderate mysteriously and then unload, and the tone of the compositions does not sound like TD, but simply irrelevant, if not cheap ....
Not to mention the sound design - the sound of this disc sounds like "home-made himself-with-good-Equipment", which is especially difficult regurgitates: Here one actually believes a cheap copycat troops to catch the convulsive attempt to copy TD when you did not know that this is indeed a work of TD itself - bitter ....

From time to time flashes but the spirit of Tangerine Dream, as I love them, to - but it's just too little and hurts even more when you realize what made this record quite could have been ....
It is certainly designed varied, and also includes a pair Electric Guitar technically interesting moments - but it does not awaken the classic TD-universe to life .... it sounds sadly more like a loveless farewell ....

And Edgar and his son Jerome manage it better mileage price, they have to later works such as "OASIS" and "MARS POLARIS" more than proven ....
The beginning of their journey together is certainly more than bumpy ....

"Rockoon" by Tangerine Dream:
One recommendation - only for real fans and completists like me ....