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Red [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Janacek: String quartet No2; Dvorak: String Quartet No14
Les Indispensables de Jeane Manson [Import]
Ou Est La Maison Du Fromage? [Import]
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Warning: this disc has nothing to do with the Rat Pack or $4.99 buffet lunches. Joerg Burger and Mike Ink (Wolfgang Voigt to his family) are two Germans for whom the sound of Las Vegas is what you hear if you put your ear real close to an air conditioner. Burger and Ink use Vegas as shorthand for Western-flavored titles ("The Jealous Guy from Memphis," "Love Is the Drug [Paris Texas]") and Americana in general ("Elvism"). But this Americana is remote, repetitive, abstract. Here disembodied electronics pulse in the ether, sometimes building up to a steady rhythm--as on "Bring Trance Back (to Las Vegas) [Blue Hotel]"--but usually circling around absent-mindedly and in an oddly soothing way. Twenty years after Tangerine Dream, the German space-music program is back in service. --Elisabeth Vincentelli