Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!eirikur From: eirikur@amber.DEC (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: tangerine dream Message-ID: <193@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 14:40:28 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.193 Posted: Fri Jan 11 14:40:28 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 05:23:53 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 41 As a long-time fan, I'd recommend Phaedra and StratosFear, if you can find them. Phaedra is about 1974 vintage. Rubycon ('75?) isn't bad either, but it has some random noodling here and there. The prelude to side one of Rubycon is truly wonderful. T.D.'s live albums have excellent sound quality. There are three; the most recent is, I believe, Logos. There was a double album from an american tour, which had some uninspired spots, but some great improvisational glimpses into where their album cuts come from. There is an earlier live album called Ricochet. I think that Ricochet is better musically than Logos. BTW: does anyone know if they are born-again christians as implied by some stuff on the back of the Logos album, as well as its title? Considering the very trippy early T.D. material, I'm rather surprised! I'm not as pleased by the more organized, modal, straightforward, almost MOR-simplistic sound of some of their recent stuff. This trend first truly irked me in parts of Force Majuere, but this is just my opinion. I loved their earlier stuff, and perhaps I can't tolerate the changes. See also the solo albums by Edgar Froese, particularly Epsilon in Maylasian Pale, and Peter Baumann, particularly Transharmonic Nights. My, all this from work, where my record collection is not! There are several records predating Phaedra--they are more unstructured. I bought, but never played them much. I should go back to them and give a good listen. I might find them just the thing given that I'm not crazy about their latest. Eirikur ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!eirikur eirikur@dec-marlboro.arpa Posted: Fri 11-Jan-1985 14:33 Marlborough uncorrected time. To: RHEA::DECWRL::"NET.MUSIC"