Behind that weird name hides Bjørn Jeppesen, a Danish keyboard player who kept an obvious tenderness for the works of Tangerine Dream in the seventies. "Absorbed in dreams and yearnings" which is his third album (the two first ones should be re-released as a double CD when you will be reading these lines) is filled with those famous sequences, electronic beats, and those analogic textures which made the German band famous around 75-78 (especially with the album "Stratosfear", for which a tribute is paid on "through clear and frosty nights").

For the best connoisseurs among you, Nattefrost will sound as well like the late American keyboard player and composer Michael Garrison, who produced a rather similar music in the 80's and until the beginning of the 90's, and maybe Jean-Michel Jarre as well, at least on his early recordings ("Oxygène"). Nonetheless, Jeppesn showcases his own ideas, adding some sound effects, some treated vocals here and there, and sometimes a rather weird, even an occasionally ominous atmosphere, something which was pretty are in Tangerine Dream's music (except on the soundtrack to the movie "Sorcerer"). "Valhal" (11:28) can be pretty experimental and even atonal in the first and third part. Most of the tracks are fuill of "spacey", dreamy atmospheres, some big harmonic waves, some swirling effects, some simple melodic lines played with cristalline timbres. Sometimes, the textures employed are more reminiscent of Tangerine Dream albums from the early eighties, like "Exit" and "Hyperborea" (they are a little bit cold, by the way). In any case, we notice that there's an almost total absence of electronic drums, there are just those sequences using some varied sounds, cristalline, "liquid", generally soft or more percussive.

The album is almost 60-minute-long, containing 8 pieces ranging from 3:39 to 11:28. Four of those are around 10-minute-long or longer. One could reproach to two of them to be a bit static, not to evolve enough, or to lack a bit of a really strong melody. But they are kind of atmosphere pieces, to be fully appreciated with headphones and in the dark.

Some will probably argue that Bjørn Jeppesen relates too much to the past, like some some progressive rock bands try to sound like the greatest bands of the 70's, but when we think carefully about Tangerine Dream around this era, they didn't produce many albums in that style back then, and the sounds used were amazingly modern and sometimes qualified as "futuristic" at the time, frequently employed for sci-fi movies or documentaries about space exploration. So, why couldn't we take over the torch, as long as it is well done ? And that's certainly the way it is with Nattefrost, which deserves some attention from all the lovers of this kind of music.