Artist: Tomasz Zawadzinski
Tracklist:
- If You Feel 18:40
- If You Want 15:27
- If You Can 13:13
- If You Need 11:44
- If You Miss 08:25
Total Time: 66:54
“Follow me” – certainly towards magical electronic lands, spooky tonal jungles, which remind us so much of those painted by the masters of Berlin School or their talented descendants.
Already the very first track on the album signifies a very nice surprise for devoted fans of Early-Virgin-Years Tangerine Dream: The awakening of a yellowish exotic forest at dawn has exactly that murky vibe we remember from TD’s “Zeit” and “Atem”! This mélange of fascinating abstract soundscapes then makes room for a soothing electronic impression, perhaps a bit melancholic, but still underlined with optimistic notes.
The second piece emerges from an interesting passage of some mysterious crisps and chirps, and leads to places which have very much in common with those so ingeniously “described” by Wolfram Spyra especially on his Fax-Recordings: there it is, a soft “rainy” tune, jazzy swinging between tonal systems, and “vibraphone” dreamy sounds as if taken from a film soundtrack. Track three, probably the best one on the record, consists mostly of numb and milky synthesizer lights, reflecting and sliding on some deep black electronic pond, dreamt about in a minor scale – one could compare the atmosphere of this piece with moods conjured up by Klaus Schulze on the “Body Love” and “Mirage” albums!
Track four gives the listener a handful of sounds and arrangements both rooted in the Berlin Scene sound and eclectic, future-oriented, as if taken from a random Paul Nagle album. The final track is probably the most “traditional” one here – I mean obviously the Berlin School tradition – but still all the recognizable influences were filtered through the innovative imagination of the artist.
Let us give this record a careful listen and we will really appreciate the already well-formed style of Tomasz Zawadzinski, who is able to paint musical scenes – “sounds like pictures” – both nostalgic and optimistic, both snowy and warm. The listener will discover, that She is asked to follow Zawadzinski not only in one particular direction, but rather in many different ones, towards a great many different worlds…
