Epsilon In Malaysian Pale

roese's hit numerous highwater marks in his illustrious career, both in and out of Tangerine Dream, but this, his third solo album, is truly his masterpiece. From Monique Froese's stunningly vivid cover art depicting a stilli-life of dense tropical fernforest, on to her husband's equally demonstrative tracks within, EPSYLON IN MALAYSIAN PALE is an idiomatic symphony exploring the depths of mid-70s electronic instrumentation (especially the mellotron and ARP series of synths) in the realization of teeming and evocative sound environments. Devoid of the then-customary use (by both Froese and TD) of sequencers, the variety of moods evoked and eclipsed in the title track is nothing short of wondrous, as mock choirs of flutes and strings vy for attention amidst discrete electronic pulsings and gently cyclic machine tones. About eight minutes in, these quasi-ambient tones metamorphose into a nebulous 'rhythm' of sorts, carried away on clouds of spiderwebbed sounds. "Maroubra Bay" continues in this vein but imparts a marked sense of drama and suspense into its irising electronic vistas, waves of mellotron crashing on a shoreline lit with the glow of LCDs. In all, beautifully sculpted soundscapes of a wholly captivating nature.|