Tangerine Dream had debuted on record the same year of the original Moon launch, and 30 years down the road, Edgar Froese and co. decided to dedicate a recording to the next step, the eventual landing of a man on Mars. The result, Mars Polaris, is what sounds like a surprisingly accurate rendering of the unmanned Mars Polar Lander's visit to the Red Planet (destined to arrive late in 1999), though the evocative atmospheres and gaseous effects are helped along by the equally descriptive titles "Mars Mission Counter," "Tharsis Maneuver," "The Silent Rock" and "Spiral Star Date." ~ Keith Farley
Rovi
http://voices-in-the-net.de/marspol2.htm及び
http://voices-in-the-net.de/marsmiss.htmも参考に。
’99年正式盤は全10曲計約70分ですが、この再発盤では11[Untitled]となっていて、HMVで試聴するとGreatWallOfChinaの曲が混入したミス・プレス盤(’07年MarsMissionCounterの曲順違い)の可能性がありますが買ってみないと分かりません。あくまで正式盤に対して五つ星