"Taking instrumental music into the nether reaches and beyond, Lightwave are true sound craftsmen, tone generators of a vast, subliminal nature. This is really great stuff: mysterious, abstract electronics, music that seeks to explore the unknown void".

(Nachtmusik). I/E Magazine (U.S.A).

 

Easily the best synth music to come out of France for a good many years"

(Nachtmusik). Lotus Records (UK).

 

"One can tell that a lot of the inspiration here is as much the musique-concrete works of François Bayle or Bernard Parmegiani, or the electronic sound imagery of other INA/GRM composers like Michel Redolfi, as it does the cosmic teutonic styling. () Such ground breaking music is rare nowadays, especially in the synth music world"...

(Nachtmusik). Audion Magazine (UK).

 

"Le résultat ? Cette symphonie de la nuit. Trouble. Troublante. Vous attendiez le premier vrai disque des années 90 ?

Ne cherchez plus"...

(Nachtmusik) Keyboards Magazine (France).

 

"Les choix de couleurs ainsi que leurs associations originales font de ce CD une réussite tant du point de vue de la qualité sonore - technique et esthétique - que de l'équilibre de leurs compositions"...

(Nachtmusik). Les Cahiers de l'Acme (Belgique).

 

"Kafka qui rencontrerait un Pierrot lunaire, Tangerine Dream des débuts croisé avec Gyorgy Ligeti, ce seraient les premières tentatives de rapprochement que l'on pourrait s'aventurer à établir pour cerner la musique pratiquée par les deux protagonistes (français) de Lightwave sur ce premier album.

(Nachtmusik). Worst (France).

 

"Lightwave donne à cette nouvelle matière sonore une âme, une allure plus sensible que n'ont pas toujours les travaux froids et scientifiques des électro-acousticiens. Et cette humanité de l'électronique lightwavienne prend sa dimension lors des performances radio ou des concerts

(Nachtmusik). Keyboards Magazine (France)

Nachtmusik (1990/Erdenklang) Lightwave is a French electronic music duo -- Christoph Harbonnier and Christian Wittmann -- who have released a few of the most completely transporting and engrossing post-Schulzian EM records of the last several years. You might say that they've taken Bernd Kistenmacher's worship of classic Teutonicism and really gone somewhere with it, continuing the process of restless innovation and experimentation that flourished back in the "golden age." This 1990 release is probably their most satisfying recording so far, comprising two very long pieces, one clocking in at thirty-two minutes and the other at twenty-three, both of which provide the listener with opportunities for extraordinarily uncanny deep-dish electro-exploration of a decidely spooky kind. The pair make use of a large array of analogue and digital instruments, with one handling mostly Prophets and Korgs and the other playing an Arp 2600 and an RSF modular system in addition to manning several sound processing units. This is an album sure to do the trick for both pulsing sequencer fans and partisans of more amorphous, oozing atmospheres. An unqualified winner!

(Nachtmusik) New Sonic Architecture / Sonarc.net