Brainwork - 3 Albums (1992-2008)

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Melody & Ambience (1995). Uwe Saher issued Brainwork V, Melody & Ambience, two hours of music sprawled out over two discs that seemed like both a culmination, mark of intent, and developmental statement all at once. There is an immense amount of music to ingest here, Saher honing his craft along dimensions previously charted (Vangelis influence remains keenly felt, as does the aforementioned Jarre, and, of course, the Berlin School grads), but across the records breadth Saher continues to push against the constrictions of genre music, in manners reasonably successful by any measure. Stylistic embroidery and rampant eclecticism aside, enough wonderful sounds dance out of the stereo field to satisfy both the jaded and virginal.
Disc one, the Melody section, does travel in varying moods and architectures: A Simple Movement and Memories, for example, sport fetching, almost catchy percussive tracts amidst their brightly thwacked synth constructs that stop just short of being cloying thanks to Saher's innate economy of means.
Warm Wind and Jamaican Holidays both dabble a bit in new-agey climates that doesn’t do the rest of the record any favours, a path that Saher will indulge in soon enough; a sense of melancholy and personal issues seems to permeate the Melody disc for the most part, but Sahers one for generosity when it comes to spreading the wealth.
The second disc, nicked Ambience, sets the controls for the heart of the sun, redeeming most everything that’s come before it, Saher letting those Berlin influences erupt in cataclysmic glory.
Sonic Vortices vibrates and weaves its sequencer filigree in sumptuous, technological delight, Sahers synths glittering like the light of refracted stars.
Liquid Mind begins with a subdued electronic thrush that recalls Patrick O’Hearns earliest missives, but once Saher brings in the interstellar sound sources that twinkle in the background, there’s no doubt were in wide-eyed space music territory for sure, planetarium-poised for quick lift-off.

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