Tangerine Dream: Untangling the Tangram

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 ...