Voyage is a re-issue of Dieter Schuetz 1985 solo album for Sky Records, Dieter recorded and played everything himself, apart from the drums on Above that were handled by Michael Fecker.
The album opens with Amazonia that takes us deep into the Amazon basin with bird calls, harp like guitars and hand drums bringing quite tranquil feeling, while you are totally aware of the teeming wildlife surrounding you.
In Dreams you can hear gentle synth lines lulling you into deep dreams, strings are plucked and the odd jarring noise changes the direction of your slumber.
Bizarre sounds like the background music for a shopping trip to the Bizarre Bazaar, synths shooting across the speakers, odd gated whiplashes, pitter patter drums, he's mutating the rhythms of a Nico song into a journey across vastly different Frozen Borderlines, sounding like he had been watching James Young play pianos and synths like this with Nico.
Fireland is the soundtrack to a film tracking the course of a deadly wildfire across forests and rivers, sad harp plucks away at the emotions carnage evokes in the listener, viewing whatever this tune brings out in your imagination, this is music to float and dream too.
Above right there on the dancefloor things are getting funky, strutting rhythm from Michael Fecker, but with laidback synth, like it's for grooving through the chill out room, where Yello meets Harold Faltermayer while chatting about Jean Jacques Perrey. It's also the perfect dance floor base to be used in remixes, Above should be an underground dance classic.
Voyage slowly down that river watching the water turns from green to brown, oscillating leaves flutter, a port emerges in the distance.
Exotic Nights sweltering on the dancefloor surrounded by the drummers coming in from all directions, mutant funk voices, floating through mountains, everybody danced with those drums, voices surround them in a sonic chapel trance connection, sea roaring in over the beach, local smoke filling the air, all combining coming together on those Exotic Nights.
Little Plant Dieter made this music just to play to you, to help you grow and bloom, he wants to be able to celebrate your life and be able to write big plant and colossal triffid, I hope he capture your sine waves and induced you to grow and grow, play these to your plants and make like King Charles and talk to them.
The Coast waves are gently breaking over rocks, synth piano patterns, wisps of wind blowing gulls to shore. The album concludes with Back Home his travels are over, he hasn't yet fallen into a deep depression or post travels comedown, but it does feel like he's grounding himself once more, using the drums he brought home and experimenting with his guitar to weave tales from other places, in his own little retreat in the otherworldly parts of Hamburg, part sci-fi reimagining of the port in the 22nd century.
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