It helps if you’ve heard “Freak ‘n’ Roll” first, since “Freak ‘n’ Roll” is kind of the set-up man. In its lower ebbs (say, around the eight-minute mark, and again about seven minutes later), it seems to be sounding a few depths to see if there’s a place where it might be able to set up camp. Guitars reverberate for minutes at a time, and the bass makes a sound like bubbles rising through oil, and Klaus Schulze in the meantime is making very unobtrusive little space-noises with his friendly little synth. In the interval between side one and size two what seems to have happened is that the drummer’s gone out for a smoke and maybe a few beers, and Schulze has opted to pick up the slack, which he does by holding down fourths on the keyboard for long stretches of time. |
