New Age Of Earth - Ashra

German musician Manuel Göttsching is just another one of many who jumped from psychedelic Krautrock in the early seventies to so-called "new age" ambience in the second half of the decade, inspired by genre leaders such as Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre. Swapping Ash Ra Tempel for his new one-man-band Ashra, Göttsching opts to follow the path of Tangerine Dream almost exclusively, with seeming reference to Klaus Schulze in the somewhat more experimental final track, though one that doesn't experiment enough to warrant a playing time of over twenty minutes. The sound across this album is more or less exactly the same as that found on ...  Read the complete review