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Berlin School | Ashra (Göttsching) ‎| New Age of Earth (1976)

In 1977, Manuel Göttsching, the electronic soul of Ash Ra Temple, launched his solo career with four splendid albums.

Distancing himself from his previous psychedelic roots, Göttsching radicalized the intuitions of A.R.T. and moved toward a decidedly more electronic sound, in the wake of Schulze and Tangerine Dream.

New Age Of Eearth is the first of four albums little known to the general public, and is notoriously considered his finest work. Four compositions totaling 47 minutes, creating a remarkably homogeneous product despite each of them having, to a more attentive ear, a specific personality:

"Sunrain," light and cheerful with an almost naive piano loop;

"Ocean of Tenderness," a brushstroke of boundless and serene spaces, without a rhythmic beat to ripple the landscape;

"Deep Distance," a composition half Kraftwerk (more) half Tangerine Dream (less), gently insistent thanks to a discreet electronic beat and (equally discreet) keyboard ups and downs; finally,

"Nightdust," a long 20-minute electronic suite with suddenly rarefied and dark atmospheres, with a series of isolated chirping sounds in the background that do nothing to ease the tension; we seem to suddenly find ourselves facing an inexorable twilight that envelops birds and insects and progressively reduces them to silence.

In the final minutes, the electric guitar enters with echoes of Floyd (but, in a curious historical retroversion, closer to the Pink Floyd of the future, that is, post-1977, than those who had been up until that point).

The electronic music of the 1970s (especially of the German brand) would, a few years later, provide inspiration for the infamous CD genre. "New Age", which with very few exceptions offered (and still offers) a huge mass of trite, pseudo-esoteric reinterpretations of the masterpieces that once were.

Such is, after all, the fate of any musical genre, whatever it is, in its epigonal phase: reducing the original to a standard, and transforming the creative impulse into a mannered repetition.

New Age Of Eearth is a splendid album, which places Manuel Göttsching on the same level as the great "soloists" of electronic Krautrock, Froese and Schulze.

00:00 - Sunrain

07:28 - Ocean Of Tenderness

20:04 - Deep Distance

25:50 - Nightdust

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