Legionäre [2:10] Total Normal [5:30] Spiel Auf Zeit [5:30] Frau Aus Stein [6:70] Goldene Jahre [4:60] Zeitlose Reise [4:60] Data-Alpha-4 [4:70] Karawanen [5:00] Der Planet Der Verlorenen Zeit [7:90]

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Recorded at Prisma Studio Music by Michael Cretu Mario Killer - lyrics Michael Cretu and Harald Steinhauer - lyrics track 1 Nils Tuxen - sitar on track 2 and 8 The album "Legionäre" was different from anything else on which Michael Cretu had worked to date. The album was reported to have taken three years in the making and finally was released on Virgin Records in German and English versions. Musically, the album revolved around a melody that was repeatedly used in "Spiel auf Zeit", "Goldene Jahre" and "Der Planet der verlorenen Zeit" in a variety of renditions and tempos. The sound of the album is very crisply electronic and bombastic. However, the generous layering of sounds set the album aside from the electronic minimalism still in fashion giving the sound a warm and powerfully romantic effect. The work was not about simplicity or minimalism. Although I would hesitate before assuming that Cretu extrapolated the grandeur of stadium-rock onto an electronic landscape; listening to "Legionäre" I sensed an ambitious and grand work of quasi-symphonic dance composition. Press information