KLAUS DOLDINGER/PASSPORT — Cross-Collateral (review)

KLAUS DOLDINGER/PASSPORT — Cross-Collateral album cover Album · 1975 · Fusion Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
Warthur
On Cross-Collateral Klaus Doldinger experiments with making his keyboards and synthesisers more prominent in Passport's sound, with mixed success. On some tracks, such as Homunculus or Jadoo, his newly acquired Moog adds an interesting texture to proceedings, but just as often it feels out of place. The major issue, to my ears, is that Doldinger adds the Moog to otherwise conventional fusion arrangements in which there isn't really space for another instrument, rather than structuring his compositions and arrangements in order to allow room for the synthesiser. And when you look beyond the synthesisers, what's left is a very typical Passport album along the lines of every single other album the group had put out to this point.
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