Artist: Christopher Franke
Tracklist:
- Scattered Thoughts of a Canyon Flight 22:05
- Inside the Morphing Space (Remix) 20:07
- Silent Waves 4:10
"Klemania" is Chris Franke's second solo studio album, dating from 1995, some 8 years after his split from Tangerine Dream. If you were wondering were Tangerine Dream's 1980's sound went, you need look no further than here.
The opening track, `Scattered thoughts of a canyon flight', is precisely what it says on the tin: 22 minutes or so of very scattered thoughts, all highly reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's earlier release, "Canyon Dreams". This quite lengthy track starts out very promisingly, with some brooding synthesiser growls, grunts and clanks, which threaten to evolve into a something quite momentous. `Inside the morphing space', which follows, uses a series of cunningly shifting minimalist sequencer patterns - in the finest Tangerine Dream tradition - to underpin another twenty-minute track. Textures throughout are light and, once again, despite a brief grumbling, moody central section - one of the best bits of the disc - the excitement level is never in any danger of rising above `jolly'. Parts of it sound like some early Edgar Froese solo works and it even has some 10-year old Tangerine Dream musical quotes in it. The final 3-minute track, `Silent Waves', is another gentle perambulation through a Tangerine Dream soundworld of yesteryear. In some ways, this is the best work on the disc, having a simple but satisfying structure to it. It would (and no doubt does) make a fine encore piece. It certainly brings the disc to a nice close.
