Pergamon, Logos, Hyperborea
Due to Andrew Glazebrook* mentioning Logos earlier, I pulled out three Tangerine Dream albums from that period and started listening to them again.
- Pergamon: Live at the Palast Der Repubik GDR 1980
- Logos: Live at the Dominion London 1982
- Hyperborea 1983
This is, of course, the period where Tangerine Dream comprised of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling. The Tangerine Dream of the early eighties. 'Pergamon' is my favourite from this period.
*Do visit Mr.Glazebrook's blog. He has created an amazing collection of spaceships, planetary surfaces, aliens and more. Breathtaking work.
6 comments:
Hey thanks for the mention ! :) 2 recent albums I've been listening to are Peter Baumann's 'Romance 76' and 'Trans Harmonic Nights' One of my favourite Tangerine Dream tracks is 'Invisible Limits' from the album 'Stratosfear'
I didn't know Baumann did solo work! I am surprised! I only knew that after leaving Tangerine Dream, he set up the Private Music label which was home to many New Age artistes like Yanni, Patrick O'Hearn, Suzanne Ciani. Tangerine Dream was for a time on his label too! That is, before he sold it to a major New Age label. I know that the Tangerine Dream of this period with Paul Haslinger is not popular with most TD listers. Likewise, the subsequent period (current one) with Jerome Froese and Linda Spa.
How are those two? What period do they resemble?
What are my favourites? Wow, there are quite a few from different periods. I tend to think of Tangerine Dream in terms of albums as they are an albums concept band...
Favourites will also include 'Underwater Sunlight', 'Le Parc', ... there's one more... 'Lily on the Sun' or something and the 'Three Bikes..' I can't remember the exact titles. Favourite albums for you?
Have you heard the Edgar Froese albums? The Paul Haslinger albums? (He did the score for that recent film, 'Underworld'.) The Chris Franke albums?
On a different tangent, have you heard the new Sparks album?
I didn't care for the last one, 'Lil' Beethoven' though it was highly acclaimed.
I LOVE Sparks,loved them since I was a kid in the early 1970's and still love them. I really like all their work !
The Baumann albums are unusual,I'd say if anything they're very much like the era of TD that he was in. One of my favourite TD soundtracks is the music they did for the film 'The Keep' some of that music is on Logos Live.I've got some of Froese's and Franke's solo albums but non of Haslinger's,another artist from TD who did solo work was Johannes Schmoelling,I have one of his albums on Vinyl but never got any on CD !
Wow! Since the early 1970s! You have liked Sparks throughout virtually their whole career. I'm amazed.
I guess you have heard their evolution from the early 70s to the present. Your perspective would be very very different from mine. For me, the exposure only came with 'Interior Design' and the single 'Just got back from Heaven' in the late eighties. My two favourites albums are:
'Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins' and 'Interior Design'.
'The Keep'... I will go check that out. I have a few Tangerine Dream OSTs around. I am not aware that TD performs tracks from their OSTs live. You told me something I didn't know. I will go look and compare now.
I think I have 'Miracle Mile', 'Thief', 'Sorcerer' and a couple of others too. Is 'Thief' TD's most prominent soundtrack?
Johannes Schmoelling's solo work! Now, I am astounded. I haven't seen it before... And you have that on vinyl!
I did a quick check on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-5990221-8621542?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Johannes+Schmoelling
It returns four items...
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