Andre Konchalovsky's 1986 film
Shy People, would seem the perfect vehicle for a
Tangerine Dream score. Alternately pensive and paranoid, full of taut drama and dreamy expanses as well as moments of true psychological horror,
Edgar Froese,
Christopher Franke, and
Paul Haslinger not only scored the film, but produced and engineered the recording, too. But all is not well. In fact, this is one of those scores that feels so haphazardly assembled and slapped together that one wonders if they actually watched the rushes at all. Overblown and overly reliant on sequenced synthesizers that would have been more at home on the group's mid- to late-'70s albums without the restraint, instead of in a place where subtlety and suggestion are called for, this is the
Dream at their most bombastic. None of the charm of their
Private Music recordings is here, none of the more sublime moments of space and texture, either. And on the two vocal tracks shuffled along by an '80s
synth pop sound, questions -- seriously -- whether or not this is even
Tangerine Dream. This feels like nothing more than a money gig. ~ Thom Jurek
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