This 1988 album from German electronic musician
Robert Schroeder explores the various themes implied in its title. The first four tunes are slow to mid-tempo pieces of relaxed Euro-pop built around funky basslines, electronic drums, and recurrent acoustic guitar and xylophone sounds, all performed with an almost languid romantic feel. The next three pieces all run together into a long slowly unfolding rhythmic space drift, with layered synthesizers, percussive accents and rippling piano, while the final track reverts to the more earthy groove of the opening pieces.
Driftin' happily explores the middle ground between
Schroeder's more hard-edged earlier works and the rich spacescapes of his latest album Pegasus. ~ Backroads Music/Heartbeats