Search - Peter Baumann :: Phase By Phase

Ex-Tangerine Dream man moves on

snowleopard | Oregon | 03/11/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Peter Baumann left Tangerine Dream in the late 1970's and released a few albums before moving on to found Private Records. This album contains selections of that early work. Half of the album is from Baumann's first two, and mostly instrumental CD's Romance 76 and Transharmonic Nights. While the cuts were more structured than his former band, it wasn't until Repeat Repeat where he moved into a more mainstream, early New Wave sound with decent results. The best cuts from that album are contained here. The vocals are mixed, but the arrangements and production are top rate. No cuts are contained from Baumann's 4th album, Strangers in the Night, a slickly produced, but otherwise listenable album that had all but completely removed him from his T Dream days."

New wave synth with punchy vocals

Dave Eaton | 01/27/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I don't know how I got the "Repeat Repeat" album by Baumann but I have enjoyed the rhythms and sounds of this music. I am glad to see that half of the songs from "Repeat Repeat" are on this album. This does have a little of the Robert Palmer sound but this is much more new wave. This 1982 music is better than the smoothed-out music on his album "Strangers in the Night"."

EVOCATIVE SYNTH POP

Pieter | Johannesburg | 06/28/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a collection of the most beautiful synth pop, like a more melodic Brian Eno or a more symphonic Kraftwerk. My favourite tracks include This Day, the eerie Meridian Moorland, Biking Up The Strand, Dance At Dawn (all instrumental) and the catchy sung Home Sweet Home, which should have been a huge hit single."