RARE/2HAND VINYL LP ON VIRGIN 1982. V2226 made in Greece. Vinyl NM. Cover VG+. Tangerine Dream experiments with an ever-widening lexicon of sound on White Eagle, though the arrangements tend to suffer for it. The album's principle work is "Mojave Plan," a four-movement, 20-minute song that represents some of the darkest music they've recorded in a while. Perhaps it was Edgar Froese's fear of nuclear annihilation that fueled this bleak view of the future, but the piece's effectiveness is undermined by the decision to continually dabble with different sounds. Where earlier extended pieces tended to move the listener from point A to point B, "Mojave Plan" doesn't flow so much as fuse disjointed sections together. The remaining songs are more cohesive, though Christopher Franke's sequencer patterns, while initially intoxicating, remain static here. That's not a problem on the brief "Midnight in Tula"; four minutes of contagious dance music that turns corners as tight as a Polyrock tune is a welcome respite at this point in the album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream Tracklist A1 Mojave Plan 19:55B1 Midnight In Tula 3:52B2 Convention Of The 24 9:27B3 White Eagle 4:30
