Label: Relativity
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5050159156627
ASIN: B00006AG9K
Release Date: 2002-09-19
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Artist: Tangerine Dream
Label: Relativity Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5050159156627 ASIN: B00006AG9K Release Date: 2002-09-19 |
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2002 reissue of 1971 album that's unavailable domestically. Includes the bonus track 'Ultima Thule Part 1 (single)'. Slipcase. Sanctuary Records.Album Details
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Group's 1971 Album that Saw them Moving Towards a More Synthesized Sound Resulting in What Would Become Known as "Space Rock".Customer Reviews:
«Kosmische Musik» Classic.......2002-09-20
If you're unfamiliar with Tangerine Dream's early «Kosmische Musik» period, then this disc may come as something as a shock. It is, however, a good place to start an exploration of their early music. It contains an excellent cross-section of the styles of playing which characterised TD's early years, having meditative pieces with long drawn out organ chords over gurgling VCS3 oscillators, flighty flute lines woven through Christoph Franke's jazzy, often improvised drumming and, of course, a general other- or out-of-this-worldliness pervading everything. 'Sunrise in the Third System' is a short (4 mins) opener, which sets the scene for the music to follow. 'Fly and Collision of Comas Sola' is a longer (13 mins) epic, with more soaring, cosmic synthesiser sounds and organ chords over Froese's guitar strummings eventually being drowned out by a veritable battle between guest flautist, Udo Dennebourg, and Franke's increasingly frantic drumming -- a true masterpiece! The main work on the disc is the 22 minute title-track, featuring some fascinating dialogue between flute, electric guitar, organ, various warbling electronic devices (mostly spacey-type VCS3 settings but also including such non-musical sources as coffee machine) and finally human voice, in the form of wordless chant and (heavily processed) dialogue! This is an exquisite precursor to the follow-up album, "Zeit".
As I mentioned earlier, this release has been remastered, allegedly from the original master tapes in TD's own Eastgate Studios. Be warned, however, that these tapes sound to be in a pretty dire state and one of the problems inherent in such remasterings is that as well as some details of the music being clearer, many of the defects become more exposed too! The opening moments of the disc, for example, have some appalling amplifier hum laid bare for all to hear and there are other moments throughout the disc when the original tapes sound to have saturated quite badly. That said, the sheer brilliance of this music soon drives such technical shortcomings from mind. (It helps to play the disc at a quieter level than normal too.)
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