Tangerine Dream: Untangling the Tangram - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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2012: Booster V - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXIRox_di7SOEJIbbYdz6_weMQ3zPWYwl

Tangerine Dream's 155th album. The fifth double-helping of music old and new in TD's Booster series

The Booster series hosts (boasts) many a hidden gem. Cool

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2013: Tangerine Dream & Brian May - Starmus: Sonic Universe

Tangerine Dream's 43rd Live album and their 158th album overall. Starmus is an international festival of music and astronomy held every year on the island of Tenerife. This epic two and a half hour concert recorded in 2011 - with special guest Brian May - celebrates the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first space flight in 1961, so prepare for lift-off! Smile

The Tangerine Dream discography is absolutely mind boggling! Wacko

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Octopus II wrote:

The Tangerine Dream discography is absolutely mind boggling! Wacko

Yes, I'm well on the way to reaching Tangerine Dream's 200th album and I still have Klaus Schulze's extensive solo discography to look forward to after that. Smile

I have all the albums from the 'Virgin' years, the 'Blue' years and then the 'Melrose' years.

I just seemed to lose interest after that, and have only bought the 'odd' one since. LOL

^ Great stuff. I enjoyed that! Clap

verslibre wrote:

Octopus II wrote:

I have all the albums from the 'Virgin' years, the 'Blue' years and then the 'Melrose' years.

I just seemed to lose interest after that, and have only bought the 'odd' one since. LOL

If you enjoy TD during the Relativity/Private years, many soundtracks got reissued, and they're still coming.

Firestarter

Strange Behavior

The Park is Mine

Catch Me...If You Can

Deadly Care

Dead Solid Perfect (next month, with restored artwork)

I suspect Heartbreakers may get a reissue with the proper artwork restored. I'd like to see The Man Inside get reissued, too.

As for TD released during the last fifteen years, these are all great. The ones in bold I consider a must, especially Light Flux, GTA 5, Sorcerer 2014 and Raum.

Views from a Red Train

Chandra (The Phantom Ferry – Pt. 1)

Edgar Allan Poe's The Island of the Fay

Macchu Picchu

GTA 5 – The Cinematographic Score

Sorcerer 2014 (Cinematographic Score)

Light Flux

Recurring Dreams

Strange Behavior

Raum

Many thanks. I will check those albums out. Smile

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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Hi,

The one thing that was really sad, specially at the time of the album release, was that a lot of folks really disliked the saxophone with TD ... regardless if it was Linda Spa or not (I suppose). In the end, I think she was a great addition while adding something that TD did not have and allowed EF a chance to spread his ideas out a bit more ...

((It was the same thing with Klaus Schulze, when he used a cello way early and a bit later started taking on many folks, including Manuel Gottsching. And the stuff he did with Julia Messenger, Arthur Brown, and many others is really neat. The most special material, for me, believe or not, was the WORKS series which was more improvised and had more guests. ))

If I have a version of TD that I like the most was when Bernhard Beibl who was also flexible and could play acoustic and then a violin on top of it. Much later they add Hoshiko, who was interesting, although I did not think that she was adding a whole lot more to what was already there, but her presence, being also very flexible with the DAW world and music, helped make Linda Spa expendable. Which was sad for me, because there was a touch that both her and Iris added to the band, that disappeared over night ... a sort of sensual feeling about the music. For my tastes, Hoshiko was a plain classical player ... and her role in TD was support, which likely meant ... backgrounds for strings and such. Linda was doing a lot of that in between her own solos on flute and saxophone.

It's just a shame ... 7 years and her itch for music is still unlit! She must have gotten really hurt by the whole thing, in the end ... I think she would have likely become more interesting as time went by. Someone with the kind of talent in music, and curriculum, is not usually out of the music too long ... But Linda has been away too long. Maybe it was time for a baby and a home ... who knows ... she won't say much and has kinda hidden the whole time.

I sent her a long poem many years ago, and she replied very sweetly ... and was sounding like she couldn't believe someone would do something like that ... but when you inspire others ...

Edited by moshkito - July 26 2023 at 12:20

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2013: Lost in Strings

Tangerine Dream's 160th album. A superb 2-CD compilation which celebrates some of Edgar Froese's greatest guitar moments. Hug

2013: Cruise to Destiny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atj__GYnX0Y

Tangerine Dream's 162nd album. A soundtrack to a musical cruise that never was, owing to Edgar Froese sustaining a fracture from a bad fall on icy ground and Linda Spa's "unpredictable disease", leading to the cancellation of both planned concerts, thus making the subsequent studio album a towering achievement over adversity. Thumbs Up

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 02 2023 at 09:35

2014: Chandra: The Phantom Ferry, Part II - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8wjVNuT7QPINidtaI_bY1KXcJV6stdFR

Tangerine Dream's 164th album. Chandra tells the story of a scientist at a remote military outpost in the Greenland Hills near Thule, who enters the building to check the monitoring equipment, but then encounters a strange, mysterious orange being, although for those of us like me who don't believe in the supernatural, I think it far more likely it was just Donald Trump dropping by to enquire about buying Greenland. Tongue