You want prolific and uniformly excellent electronic music? Then Frank Klare is for you. ANALOGIC is a striking sequential Berlin School release done on analog equipment and digitally re-mastered to allow the full spectrum of sound to emerge from the mix. From his days with the Berlin trio Synco up to today, Klare has made some incredibly diverse music that ranges the full spectrum of synthetic moods and tone colors. His music reflects his mastery of the EM craft, as well as being enjoyable listening.
Frank Klare is undoubtedly an underrated artist. Mostly ignored from the larger audience of EM, he is however one of the most important jewel in Berlin School EM. Let’s take Analogic. We are dealing here with a super opus of pure analog music which travels between the oddness of Irrlicht and the voluptuous of Body Love, both from Master Schulze.
Analogic One is a charming track. Beautiful synth layers illuminate a space striate with shooting stars. Consistent, they fluctuate under a slow movement, with floating sound arabesques, like a strange ballet with dubious movements but of a sensual beauty. We let ourselves pitch and toss by this slow movement which recalls first Schulze and the musical wanders of Jarre’s Oxygen. Analogic is a pure wonder of sanalog softness. A poetic album where Klare sensitivity transforms into enchanting musical odes of a Berlin School tinted of romanticism. Without really exploring percussive rhythms, Klare divides time by offering superb analog parts which musical structures are punctuated harmonious series of arpeggios to musical tangles which come very close to nostalgic softness. In that spirit, the string of chords that winds Analog Two is of an appealing beauty.
Ikarus starts in these same floating zones. More fluid, the musical structure is struck by heavy pulsations, with looping reverberations, giving a brawler effect in a cemented space. Crazy Dance is a dance with clock movements created by a sequential pulsation of a great realism. Analogic Three is the pièce de résistance on Analogic. After a short eclectic intro, this long movement pulsates on a ramming and hypnotic rhythm where synth dandles itself on a sober sequence, whereas the percussions over sizing the cadence, as Klaus Schulzer used to do at his semi-analogue a semi – digital area. This is a great hypnotic impulse with subtle variances and a superb set of percussions. Fans of Berlin School, get your headphones and threat yourself with this amazing track. Go Ahead encloses this great opus on a more hatched rhythm. A hypnotic trance full of hammering percussions mixes with a synth filled of twisted solos. A gruff track which clashes in this universe of whirring and enveloping layers, but which is a brilliant continuity of the sublime Analogic Three.
Analogic is impossible to circumvent for any analog EM fans. Frank Klare is unquestionably a composer of talent which controls all the aspects of conservative Berlin School, with just what it takes to avoid the traps of redundancy. A superb album which will please all fans of Schulze music in, the analog area, as well as fans of great and sensitive EM.
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