Der lange Marsch GAS

“Wolfgang Voigt’s third GAS album in four years after a 17-year absence finds the German producer, now into his seventh decade, setting a rigid, military tempo from the get-go - less 44, rather the 24 march time of the album title. Those cornerstones of GAS albums past - irresistible ambient loops and a drone deluge, manipulated samples and the absence of such fripperies as song titles – remain intact. But while opener Der Lange Marsch 1 sways like marram grass in the breeze, there’s a relentlessness to the album’s overall progress. Romanticism particularly manifests itself in a love of nature, marking Earth’s admission into intensive care? The chief source of Der Lange Marsch 4’s emotional heft is its tethering to the tumultuous, tragic crescendo of Leibestod, from Tristan And Isolde, for example. Entirely appropriate for a record that’s Wagnerian in scale, tone and subject.” - Stephen Worthy, Mojo