Michael Hoenig - Departure from the Northern Wasteland (remastered 2023)

Michael Hoenig's classic debut from 1978 which I carefully remastered from April to September 2023 for better sound quality. When released back in 1978, the album was met with mixed reviews and was compared to the works of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. However, Hoenig adopted a different approach towards composition than his friends (he collaborated with both of the above mentioned). Instead of improvising the tracks, he spent 20 months carefully composing and recording the music for the album. The primary sources of his inspiration were American minimal music composers - on the album, he used the language of polyrhythms, phase shifts and tonally centered compositions as popularized by Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Philip Glass. Hoenig never released another album in this specific style. Later on, he contributed some cues for the soundtrack to the cult movie Koyaanisqatsi (1982, dir. Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass), in 1987 he released a slightly more pop-oriented album Xcept One, followed by soundtracks to a horror movie and to a computer game. You can download the remastered album here: https://fastshare.live/27584543/michael-ho... Apart from lossless tracks, included are retouched high-resolution scans of the original album cover, an informative booklet, a demo of the title track (very interesting, even if low quality audio) and a browser-based player with side-by-side comparison of the remaster and the original album. To listen to the original, unremastered version of the album, watch    • Michael Hoenig - Departure from the Northe...