Track Listing

1. Departure From The Nothern Wasteland
2. Hanging Garden Transfer
3. Voices Of Where
4. Sun And Moon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62329 in Music
• Released on: 1992-01-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Departure from the Northern Wasteland was first released in 1977. It represents Michael Hoenig's return to a more compositional approach to music after working solely with improvisational music for five years. Each piece is developed largely from a mood, and though the music begins here, it is music that is finished in the mind of each listener. On this album, Hoenig works with the compositional concepts of a single tonal center and a basic rhythmic pulse. The rhythmic element is very important to him and he utilizes various pulse units as well as drifting downbeats. Musically complex and an electronic classic, this CD consistently provides the listener with new experiences each time it is heard.

About the Artist
Synthesist, Michael Hoenig, is an innovative composer at the forefront of new music. A former member of Agitation Free and Tangerine Dream, he was in the vanguard of Europe's electronic music scene since its earliest days in Berlin.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Hoenig moved to Berlin when he was three. His early interests were in photography and painting and he began his exploration into music in the late 1960s. Hoenig strived to discover new sounds and new forms of music. Bypassing a classical music education, he first approached the synthesizer without preconceived notions of how it should be played or what it should sound like, and maintained a strong commitment to exploiting all of its possibilities for sound and tone color.

Customer Reviews

Calligraphy of patterns
1976 Eno/bowie put together their ambient "Low" tracks and Alan Parsons broke from Floyd to do his 1st project; in berlin Michael Hoenig was setting the sequences for this calligraphic electronic album. Reinterative patterns upon patterns dovetail and overwhelm space. Forward and reversed counterpart musical zones weave a rhythmic trance. Compositions are inner repetative and echo a main frame unique to each musical piece....Track #1 begins with an ambient harmonium and builds into a Philip Glass styled train-like structure. #2 Compliments Bach-like variations. #3 Is an eerie edgy drone. When played backward Uschi reads a dark german poem about autumn and life. #4 Carries upbeat patterned harmonies.....Dennis Hendricks' album cover was retouched (defaced) by removing 58 hot air ballons. A noteworthy back cover poem (omitted on the CD) now meaningfully speaks across these decades: "Repetition is the image of eternity in music. The music of the past justifies itself for its limitation. The music of the future is sparing itself this effort".

An incredible Journey
It is almost incredible what happened in Germany decades ago, this kind of music opens a whole dimenssion, deep emotional atmospheres, a must have for everybody who is in this kind of music. And many younger people looks very surprised whn they find these great music was born decades ago. All my praise for this album, I feel I get into a new world it si very intense sensation.

just as good as klaus schulze and neptune towers
If you like klaus schulze, neptune towers, etc. then this cd is a must have, When I put this cd in I have to listen to the whole thing. if im going to work or going to sleep or just "relaxing". this cd will take your mind to that place where you want to be.