#Tangerine dream force majeure pdf full#
Force Majeure returns to form, picking up the melody-driven sound of Stratosfear and going with it full pelt. Really just a bad Pink Floyd ripoff with some sequencer sections thrown in. I know Cyclone has its fans, but for me it's the first of a run of albums that really showed how bad TD + vocals is. Encore, as a live document and a farewell to the Frose / Franke / Baumann lineup, is fine, but it's too heavy on the soloing for my taste. Stratosfear introduces a much more thematic, melody-led approach with hints of prog I love the inclusion of piano, harpsichord, harmonica etc. It's no surprise they moved away from this sound after it, as I don't think they could have done anything else or gone further with the sequence-led approach. Ricochet is a bit of an awkward transitional record - not a big fan of the rockier first side - but the second side is impressive solely for being an example of how far you could push sequencer-based music. One of the all-time peaks of ambient music, just stunningly beautiful, effortlessly veering from starkly scary to lush and euphoric. Obviously Phaedra is beyond comparison for its originality and sheer atmosphere - incredible that the title track came about by pure chance and inadvertently created the entire Berlin-School genre which went on to shape new age and trance in the long run - but Rubycon is the superior of the two for me. Almost every album from this era is gold. Rightfully lauded as their creative peak.
Admirably experimental, but one of my least favourites. More emphasis on rhythm and density, but mostly jarring and totally lacking the trance-like nature of their best material. Atem feels like a bit of a creative dead end to me. 'Birth of Liquid Plejades', with its droning cellos and Florian Fricke on Moog, is a monumental piece. Zeit is definitely the highlight of this era, a stunning dark album totally devoid of rock music. Alpha Centauri is a more spacious version of the sound, pretty far out for 1971. Not often in the mood, but the opening two tracks are particularly excellent. Electronic Meditation - great chaotic kraut-psych stuff, totally un-electronic (despite the name). I actually have a 2CD compilation of this entitled Sunrise in the Third System which contains a considerable portion of the material from each album, simply because I rarely fancy listening to any of the albums in their entirety. I'm not touching the soundtracks, as I don't know them so well (I've listened to all the commercially released ones once or twice, but never owned them). As it's a mega-thread, it deserves some mega-posts, so here's my rundown of their main studio (and 100% original material live) albums. Painting and cover design – Monica Froese.Even though they're not my absolute favourite group, I own more TD than any other band.Produced and mixed – Christopher Franke, Edgar Froese.Christopher Franke – keyboards, sequencers.
Edgar Froese – keyboards, electric and acoustic guitars, effects.It contained the extra bonus track 'Chimes and Chains'. In 1991, Christopher Franke played "Cloudburst Flight" as part of his solo London Concert.Ī New CD version was issued in 2019 re-mastered from the original master tapes. A heavily remixed version was played live in 2003, and later released as "Meta Morph Magic" on the DM 4 album. Remixed excerpts of "Force Majeure" and "Cloudburst Flight" titled "Lana" and "Guido The Killer Pimp" respectively, were used on the film soundtrack of Risky Business while a remixed excerpt of "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" titled "Igneous" was used on the film Thief. įorce Majeure is Tangerine Dream's fourth-biggest-selling album in the UK, reaching No. When the band heard the result, they decided to keep it. The distortion of the bass sequence on "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" was the result of a burnt-out transistor in the mixing desk. Following Stratosfear, the album developed Tangerine Dream's further evolution toward the more melodic sound they would adopt in the 1980s, with a heavier presence of guitars, drums and distinct musical suites in the tradition of progressive rock, rather than the band's 1970s output of Berlin School. It was originally issued on transparent vinyl. August–September 1978 at Hansa Studios in BerlinĮlectronic, progressive rock, space rock įorce Majeure is the twelfth major release and the ninth studio album by the German group Tangerine Dream.
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