"Light Echoes" is one monster of an album, filled to the top with excellent sequences. If you like sequencing and more sequencing, Light Echoes is the ticket, again it features three lengthy excursions into all things Teutonic.
The title track wastes little time getting up to speed, and sounds much like AirSculpture, with a synth lead that mimics an electric guitar solo. Though Impasse was good, this sounds better, more polished. The effective layering of sequences is hypnotic as they dance about each other. Very upbeat, it would be hard to be down while listening to this. The last five minutes are given room to breathe as mellotron flutes and ethereal synths play brightly.
“Two Toned Rock on Mars” is up next, again reminding me of AirSculpture or perhaps Create as dreamy textures start us off. Once again a stonking sequence rises up out of the mist, full of bubbly energetic electronics. Cánovas tends to find a cool groove and ride it out, with generally solid results. Here he allows for more delicate touches and a more expansive feeling, as the song moves back into dreamy reverie before its barely half over, allowing plenty of time to explore the subtler side of synthesizer sonics. A bit of soft piano even gets into the act, a nice touch toward the end.
“Interpherometry” not only serves up another solid slice of Berlin school energy, it also gives me an excuse to look up the word, apparently a term used in both holography and astrophysics, fitting in well with both the main theme and the cool cover art of Light Echoes.
