Coming from Nantes, Bertrand Loreau's recording career started in the early 80s when he purchased his first synthesizer: the Polymoog. Thanks to that and to his newest keyboard, the Korg MS20, he started to experiment with sounds and soon after he formed with some friends a group called Krill. Since then Bertrand never stopped creating music and at the beginning of the 90s he got in contact with the label Musea and started to release albums for them. On 1992 Musea released the first Bertrand solo album "Priere". Since then he released for Musea Parallèle and Dreaming labels nine albums where he mixed progressive, new-age, classical and experimental music taking inspiration from Klaus Schulze and Vangelis. The album I'm about to review is titled "Journey Through The Past" and has been printed by Spheric Music, the label run by Lambert Ringlage. This isn't exactly a new album by Bertrand Loreau, it is a selection of tracks recorded on the 1982-1988 period. At that time Bertrand composed many tracks influenced by the Berlin synth scene of the 70s. On these tracks you'll hear echoes of Hoening, Froese as well bits of Schulze, without forgetting the influences of the French school of Jarre and Vangelis. Bertrand picked up nine tracks which span from calm suites with celestial atmospheres (like "Meeting You" or "Welcome In The Show") to long mesmerizing suites made of sidereal sounds and nice melodies (check the two parts of "Le Ciel Est Jaune D'un Liquide Inconnu" and "Dx Seven Age") passing through great upbeat tracks made of several arpeggios (like on "Moog On The Moon" and "L'arpege A Tord"). The album is very long and to get into it at the best I suggest you to listen to the tracks separately different times.