Voyage

Artist: Brainticket
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

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Format: CD-single
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 741157007527
EAN: 0741157007527
ASIN: B000001JL2

Release Date: 1997-08-12

Voyage

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Tracks:

Voyage Part 1
Voyage Part 2
Skyline (Analog 1970)
Underworld Paths
Nebula

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Customer Reviews:

Brainticket - 'Voyage' (Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra).......2003-12-10

I believe this was the band's fourth lp,originally released in 1982.The first two tracks run over eighteen minutes each,obviously making each tune take up an entire lp side."Voyage,Part 1" is okay,but I think I like "Voyage,Part 2" a bit better.Brainticket founder Joel Vandroogenbroeck states in the CD's liner notes the band,including drummer Barney Palm got together after a lengthy break in the studio with NO song arrangements whatsoever.They apparently just made everything up as they went along.There aren't a lot of artists that can successfully do that.I always appreciate seeing these CD reissues tagging on bonus cuts.Personally,I dug the three bonus tracks better than I did the 'original' album."Skyline Analog 1970" is quite tripping and so is "Nebula"."Underworld Paths" appears to be more laid back.Might appeal to some fans of Tangerine Dream,Cluster,Ash Ra Tempel and Gong.

Saved by the extra tracks.......2003-11-25

Talk about a game of two halves ! I struggle to understand why the original album was ever released, because whilst it may have been of interest to die-hard collectors, it was seriously substandard.

I'm no musical genius but surely each release should do something to enhance an artist's reputation, especially exercises in nostalgia like "Voyage" ? Why undermine your reputation with a rushed and consequently weak (apologies to DJK) release after years of inactivity ?

Anyway, let's move on to the music. The other reviewers are spot on; the first two tracks don't make the grade. After reading their comments, I was pleasantly surprised to hear one or two promising sections, but they were never fully developed. The tracks are very one paced, with little structure and no dynamics to speak of. You could say that this was to be expected, given their allegedly improvised nature, but all the same...

All of this makes the onset of the third track, "Skyline", most welcome. What a difference ! Within seconds, you know something good is coming. Dynamics, a huge sense of space, a delicate theme which develops almost unnoticed - great ! The fourth track is very competent too and the final one, "Nebula", provides the perfect conclusion to the album: twinkling sequencer, distant, operatic voices, spine-chilling atmospherics, a minimalist yet nonetheless potent soundscape. This is the music of the spheres and you can just imagine that this is what Voyager (the deep space probe) might be encountering as it hurtles into the depths of space. Well, sort of.

On this evidence, Brainticket are the pre-Abramovich Chelsea FC of electronic artists: you never know which team is going to turn up, "los galacticos" or the pub team !

'70s vintage keyboard lover's dream come true.......2001-09-09

If you're at all familiar with Brainticket, you most likely have heard their first three albums from the early 1970s, Cottonwoodhill (1971), Psychonaut (1972), and Celestial Ocean (1973). After Celestial Ocean, the band seemed to have disappeared, only to resurface around 1979 and started to work on Adventure, which continued until 1980 and released that year. Voyage was their followup. It's really hard to believe Voyage was released in 1982, as it sounds very much like a 1976 recording, with nothing but keyboards and other gear that was available around '76, with absolutely no early '80s polyphonic synths like the Oberheim OBX or the Prophet 5. Not to mention the sound of this album is as far from the 1980s as possible (the only '80s sounding cuts here are from the bonus cuts). While Adventure was their previous effort, I suspect Voyage was recorded before Adventure, but released after. All I know was it was recorded on a February night, no mention of year. Getting correct info on Brainticket seems to be near impossible. With Adventure, they became a four piece band with Joel Vandroogenbroeck (keyboards, flute), Barney Palm (percussion), Hans Deyssenroth (keyboards), and Wilhelm Seefeldt (keyboards), making this version of Brainticket an all instrumental keyboard driven prog rock band with no guitars. Voyage uses the same lineup as Adventure, the only two Brainticket albums where the lineup didn't change. The music here is heavy on both ethnic percussion and lots and lots of the most wonderful '70s keyboard sound (despite the 1982 release) I have ever heard with lots of Mini Moog, Hohner clavinet, EMS Synthi A, Fender Rhodes electric piano. The music varies a lot from experimental to ethnic (especially Balinesian gamelan), to more laid-back passages, to lots of great Moog jams. Plus all this music was improvised with nothing pre-planned. The original LP was apparently a private issue and is quite difficult to come by, but I'm happy Purple Pyramid had reissued this on CD with three bonus tracks, two that sound like they're from the mid 1980s ("Underworld Paths", "Nebula") and a stunning piece from around the same time as Voyage called "Skyline (Analog 1970)" (which was hardly recorded in 1970, because it sounded like it was recorded with the same Adventure/Voyage lineup, besides if it was really recorded in 1970, it would sound like Cottonwoodhill outtakes). Voyage is grossly overlooked, in my opinion, and if you can't get enough of that wonderful '70s vintage keyboard sound, you can't go wrong here. Voyage proved to be their final album, at least until 2000 when they released the techno-influenced Alchemic Universe.

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