Inventions was originally released on Sky Records way back in 1983 by the German duo of Adelbert Von Deyen and Dieter Schutz who together created an album of Kraut Art Synthesis this is the first time the album has been re-issued since 1983.
The album opens with The Awakening that takes a central almost Spanish guitar theme and builds a wall of synths around it, to make it into a soundtrack background style piece that feels quite upbeat.
Speed For You is the imaginary soundtrack to an advert for Speed, the amphetamine rush of skittery teeth on edge percussion, over the crystalline bathtub synths feels as if you are getting a little bit mumpy and jumpy waiting for that package to arrive delivered by a sylphlike creature who mutters under her breath Speed For You.
Peace On Earth is of course an ideal we should all aspire to helping to create, this feel like the fanfare to an age of peace and love, that is seemingly forever just out of our grasp, this has classical leanings to how the synths rise and fall helping to make the listener feel calm and peaceful.
Baltic Sea has waves crashing in on the outskirts of Copenhagen as you sit looking across the water towards Malmo the winter storms brewing.
Lunar opera Parts 1-3 is somewhere between the Original Dune soundtrack and Hans Lundin's synth prognostications, it feels like you are driving in a lunar lander, bouncing, almost floating across the blasted surface. The second part has the feeling of a sci-fi voyage to the dark side of the moon, hoping to discover deeper chasms and riches to help enrich earth with. The third part seems like a moon walk back toward your landing pod, marvelling at the Moon rocks you are walking over.
Farland uses a drum machine style basic rhythm, with gently expansive synth trying to lift the mood in that Farland they are dreaming of.
Apache's Pain takes a typical western beat, adding distressed guitar and synth for all the pain felt on the trail of tears, this isn't as upfront as Europe's Cherokee about the terror inflicted on the native American people, but it is certainly within the music.
Jungle almost feels like they are sampling and mutating the sounds of crickets and cicadas in the tropical jungle, rather than making a tune to be danced to at Dschungel by Bowie and Iggy and all the hep kids, although the kids will eventually love the drum and bass escapades that come and go in this tune.
Volcano '78 is for anyone who was affected by the huge eruption of Mount Etna and the cloud it billowed into the atmosphere, the lava rolling down the mountain threatening to destroy everything in its path to this rather gentle tune.
Valley of the Monsters is the darkest tune on the album and feels like the title music for a dank horror movie, the percussion is laid back, but the guitar comes in like King Kong has just arrived and people are fleeing hoping to find safe harbour. The tonal synths make it sound like you're inside the belly of the monster and can hear his tummy rumbling.
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