Tangerine Dream

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Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream at the Quantum of Electronic Evolution Tour 2018 in the Elbphilharmonie
Tangerine Dream at the Quantum of Electronic Evolution Tour 2018 in the Elbphilharmonie
General information
origin West Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Electronic music
Berlin School
Ambient
founding 1967
Website www.tangerinedream-music.com
Founding members
Edgar Froese († 2015)
Volker Hombach (until 1968)
Lanse Hapshash (until 1968)
Charlie Prince (until 1968)
Kurt Herkenberg (until 1968)
Current occupation
Synthesizer, piano
Thorsten Quaeschning (since 2005)
Violin, cello
Hoshiko Yamane (since 2011)
synthesizer
Ulrich Schnauss (since 2014)
synthesizer
Paul Frick (since 2020)
former members
Drums
Klaus Schulze (1969–1970)
synthesizer
Conrad Schnitzler (1969–1971)
synthesizer
Christoph Franke (1971–1987)
synthesizer
Steve Schroyder (1971)
synthesizer
Peter Baumann (1971–1977)
synthesizer
Johannes Schmoelling (1980–1986)
synthesizer
Paul Haslinger (1986–1990)
synthesizer
Ralf Wadephul (1988)
Synthesizer, guitar, drums
Jerome Froese (1990-2006)
Guest musician
Vocals, flute
Steve Jolliffe (1978)
singing
Jocelyn B. Smith (1987)
Saxophone , flute, synthesizer, piano
Linda Spa (1991-1996, 2005-2014)
guitar
Zlatko Perica (1992-2005, 2011)
guitar
Gerald Gradwohl (1994-2001)
guitar
Mark Hornby (1994-2002)
Drums, percussion , vocals
Iris Camaa (2001-2014)
singing
Chris Hausl (2005, 2010)
Guitar, violin, synthesizer
Bernhard Beibl (2006-2014)

Tangerine Dream (German "Mandarinentraum") is a music formation from Germany , which is especially significant because of its pioneering work in the field of electronic music . In addition to Ash Ra Tempel and Agitation Free , the band is considered to be a pioneer of the so-called Berlin School , while the early phase of the group is also counted as part of Krautrock . The music of Tangerine Dream is often assigned to the music genre New Age (for example there was a Grammy nomination in this category), but in interviews the band distances itself from this categorization. Rather, in addition to the occasional categorization of progressive rock , their music can also be described as symphonic music or as a form of ambient with an emphasis on electronic sound generation and with influences from rock music .

Instruments, stylistic features

Stylistically, they can sometimes be clearly distinguished from other protagonists of symphonic electronic music by the often equal use of acoustic instruments (guitar, saxophone, flute, percussion, occasionally piano, orchestra, etc.) and occasionally singing. Since the 1980s, mostly much shorter pieces of music have been published in verse-refrain- interlude schemes. Their dynamic-rhythmic repetitive synthesizer sequences , wide soundscapes and metallic-digital sounds are unmistakably typical . From experimental to rock and pop, 20-minute compositions or short songs, from simple drum rhythms to house styles, Tangerine Dream adapted to a certain extent to the zeitgeist, but retained a consistency in the atmosphere and aesthetics of their music. Live a concert always turns out to be an elaborate performance of sound, light, laser show and video projection.

Almost everything that is significant in the instrument market for electronic sound generation has been used, e.g. B. Synthesizers like Moog Minimoog , Polymoog, Moog 3P, Oberheim , Kurzweil , Sequential Circuits - Prophet series, Mellotron , Elka-Strings , ARP-Solina , ARP 2600, EMS , all PPG synthesizers, Waldorf, Korg M1, Korg T1, Korg 01W, Korg Z1, Korg Radias, Yamaha DX7 , Roland's Jupiter, JX, D, U, JD and JV series, Access Virus , Clavia Nord-Lead , software instruments , E-mu - and Akai - Sampler, Steinberg software and much more

Career

Tangerine Dream was founded in September 1967 by Edgar Froese . The band name is based on the line of text "Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies" from the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles .

One of the first official line-ups is: Volker Hombach (saxophone, flute, violin), Lanse Hapshash (drums), Kurt Herkenberg (bass) and Edgar Froese (guitar). Tangerine Dream gave the first concert in January 1968 in the cafeteria of the Technical University of Berlin; shortly afterwards they appeared at the Essener Songtagen , the largest music festival in Germany at the time with over 40,000 visitors. In addition to German groups such as Floh de Cologne or Amon Düül , international groups such as The Fugs or The Mothers of Invention played there with frontman Frank Zappa . At that time, Tangerine Dream had nothing in mind with electronic music. Contemporary witnesses wrote of a "hard-rocking, aggressive group with free jazz coloring". Ultimately, it was the Electronic Beat Studio , established in 1968 with funds from the Berlin Funding Act , which, under the direction of avant-garde composer Thomas Kessler, introduced many Berlin groups to the synthesizer, which was still new at the time, free of charge. At the beginning of 1969, Herkenberg left TD and founded the group Curly Curve with Heiner Pudelko (later singer of the Interzone group ) and Alex Conti . Froese then played several concerts with changing musicians until he met Klaus Schulze in 1969 , who at that time was playing drums in the Berlin formation Psy Free . Schulze's ability to keep an unusual rhythm over a longer period of time in particular moved Froese to ask him if he wanted to join Tangerine Dream.

Froese and Schulze were looking for another musician, whom they found in Conrad Schnitzler , a student of the object and action artist Joseph Beuys at the time . With this formation, the music that came out in 1970 under the title Electronic Meditation was created during a session in a private studio . The material was not originally intended for publication. With the exception of a Farfisa organ , no electronic keyboard instruments were used in this production . In 1970 Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler left the band again. Schulze founded Ash Ra Tempel (together with Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke ) and began a successful solo career in 1971, which should make him known worldwide.

Christoph Franke , whom Froese met in Berlin, came to Tangerine Dream from Agitation Free at the age of 17. Franke studied classical music and composition at the Berlin Conservatory . Organist Steve Schroyder joined the new trio . Their first single was released on the Ohr label in 1971 under the title Ultima Thule .

The LP Alpha Centauri was created in 1971 with the line-up Froese, Franke, Schroyder . In addition to the three musicians, Udo Dennebourg played the flute and the then road manager Roland Paulick played the synthesizer. After personal problems with Steve Schroyder arose, he was replaced in 1971 by Peter Baumann from Berlin , who began his musical career in 1968 as an organist with the amateur band Burning Touch . With this composition, the first constant formation was created.

While Tangerine Dream still used conventional instruments and electronic effects on the first two albums, they used a synthesizer ( EMS VCS 3 ) that they had bought a year earlier for the first time on the 1972 double LP Zeit . In 1973 they released their fourth LP breath . This was particularly popular in the British Isles. The English DJ John Peel made the record "Record of the Year" on his BBC broadcast. This is how Richard Branson of Virgin Records became aware of Tangerine Dream. Because of legal differences with the Ohr label and the fact that they received more attention abroad than in Germany, they signed a record deal with Virgin in December 1973.

In 1973 Baumann left the group for a short time. Froese and Franke went into the studio with new material. However, the result of this work did not appear on the album Green Desert until 1986 .

The following designations of the creative periods are terms used by Tangerine Dream itself.

The Virgin Years

The first release on the Virgin label was Phaedra in 1974 . The record made it into the British Top 20. On June 16, 1974, their first concert in English-speaking countries took place in London's Victoria Palace. This was followed by a three-week tour through Great Britain, on which their music was optically supported for the first time by a so-called "video synthesizer". Most of their concerts consisted of improvisations. Tangerine Dream decided not to play a piece twice.

Shortly before a tour that took the band to Australia and New Zealand in the spring of 1975 (where they received their first gold record), Michael Hoenig (Agitation Free) stepped in for Peter Baumann. Baumann left the band overnight in January 1975 to travel through Asia by car. After the tour, Hoenig left the band.

After Baumann's return, the album Rubycon, released in 1975, was recorded again with the line-up of Froese, Franke and Baumann. The album Ricochet , released at the end of 1975, was the first to hear live music by Tangerine Dream, which was recorded during their '75 tour of France and England.

The next LP Stratosfear was released in 1976. The title track proved the first signs that Tangerine Dream had become more rhythmic. On the subsequent European tour through Germany, Spain, France, Switzerland and England, they presented their latest work at 31 concerts live, followed by their first 16-concert USA tour in early 1977.

Also in 1976, the American director William Friedkin became aware of Tangerine Dream. For his remake of the classic Wages of Fear (dt. " Sorcerer ") he commissioned the soundtrack the band Sorcerer to write. What was unusual was that Friedkin, enthusiastic about the result, re-edited the film after the music. After another US tour in August 1977, Tangerine Dream released the double LP Encore . It contains recordings of the spring tour through North America.

At the end of 1977 Peter Baumann left the group due to artistic differences of opinion and personal problems. He devoted himself to a few solo projects until he met his former colleagues again in 1988 with his record label "Private Music". The remaining members Froese and Franke embarked on a daring experiment with the next production by hiring the English multi-instrumentalist Steve Jolliffe , who had previously played for the blues rock band Steamhammer . The Berlin drummer (and brother of Ideal guitarist FJ Krüger ) Klaus Krüger was accepted into the band as a drummer . This collaboration resulted in the album Cyclone in 1978 , which was untypical for Tangerine Dream, as it was the first time that they used song-like lyrics. The subsequent extended tour did not find the desired response from the audience due to the unusual instrumentation and singing for Tangerine Dream. Steve Jolliffe therefore left the group.

The formation, which had shrunk to the Duo Froese / Franke, brought the LP Force Majeure onto the market in 1979 . Again Klaus Krüger took over the drums before working with Iggy Pop live as well as in the studio. Another guest musician is Eduard Meyer on the cello. Froese and Franke wanted to work again with their successful line-up with three keyboard players. However, they were looking for someone who had a different approach to music than they did and who was a trained pianist. They found him in the organist Johannes Schmoelling .

Schmoelling was recommended by a sound engineer and, although he didn't know who Tangerine Dream was and originally couldn't do much with the music, he accepted the group. At the end of 1979 the trio was already playing their first compositions, which finally appeared in 1980 under the title Tangram . On January 31, 1980, Tangerine Dream appeared as the first West German "rock band" in the GDR. In the same year, part of these two concerts in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin was released by the GDR record company Amiga as an LP under the simple name Tangerine Dream , divided into two parts with the part names Quichote . In 1986 this concert was officially released a second time on Virgin as Pergamon Live .

Early 1981, then released their soundtrack to the film Thief (dt. The loner ). The studio album Exit followed in autumn . Noticeably shorter pieces were found on both albums. The theme song for the Schimanski - Tatort The Girl on the Stairs , which was released as a single in 1982 (and in 1997 as a remix in modern drum-and-bass style), even brought Tangerine Dream to the top 20 in the chart . Since they never wanted to sound commercial, Edgar apologized “with a wink for this industrial accident”. This was followed by the studio album White Eagle , which with the title track also contains the original form of this crime scene theme music, probably modified from it. In 1981 they played pieces from this album with the Munich Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Eberhard Schoener at the Krone Circus in Munich for Classic Rock Night, which was also broadcast on TV. During a European tour, Tangerine Dream also made a guest appearance at the Dominion Theater in London. A recording of this concert was released in 1983 on the LP Logos Live . This LP also contains parts of the soundtrack of Der Söldner , a relatively violent agent film in which Klaus Kinski also plays.

The jive electro years

1983 was a busy year for Tangerine Dream. They released the studio album Hyperborea , the soundtracks Wavelength and The Keep and started a tour of Poland, which resulted in the live album Poland . This album represents the first production on the "Jive Elektro" label, to which they switched after the Virgin contract expired. In the period that followed, the number of soundtracks for which Tangerine Dream was responsible increased. These included 1983 the teenage comedy Risky Business (dt. Loose business ) with Tom Cruise and 1984 the Stephen King filming Firestarter (dt. The fire devil ) with Drew Barrymore , as well as Flashpoint (dt. Flashpoint - Die Grenzwölfe ).

1985 saw two more soundtracks: Heartbreakers and Legend for the fantasy film Legende . In addition, there was a large, two-part radio special in April as part of the radio program Sounds from the Synthesizer , in which Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann and Christopher Franke participated as conversation partners. The music for the film The Park Is Mine (Eng. The ruler of Central Park ) was released on CD in 1991. Their next studio album was Le Parc , on which they dedicated the individual pieces to the most beautiful parks in the world. The title song of the same name on this album was used for the opening credits of the less successful action series Street Hawk . That was the last album in the classic line-up Froese / Franke / Schmoelling. Due to the frequent live appearances, film music assignments and studio recordings, Schmoelling decided to take a break and left the group.

From October 1985 to the beginning of 1986 Tangerine Dream had become a duo again. The Austrian Paul Haslinger joined the group as a new member . Among other things, he had studied classical music at the academies in Salzburg and Vienna. For the 1986 tour, Tangerine Dream brought Haslinger on stage to support them. Since the cooperation worked well during the live performances, it was decided to accept him as a permanent member of the band. The first work of the newly formed trio was the LP Underwater Sunlight , to which Haslinger made little compositional contribution, but only played instruments such as piano and synthesizer.

In 1987 some soundtracks appeared again: Three O'Clock High (German law of fist - terror in high school ), Shy People - threatening silence and the horror film Near Dark . The soundtrack to the American television film Deadly Care was only released on CD in 1991. At the studio production of the year they dared to use vocals again. On Tyger , Tangerine Dream set poems by the English writer William Blake to music . Here “the text and music harmonized much better” than years before on Cyclone . Also in 1987 a film was made about the Grand Canyon , to which Tangerine Dream contributed the background music. Both the video and the soundtrack were released under the title Canyon Dreams . The name Jerome Froese appears as a composer for the first time on the CD . The music earned them a first Grammy nomination.

The material, which Tangerine Dream recorded during their concerts in 1987, appeared on the live album Livemiles in 1988 as the last production on the label "Jive-Elektro". This is also the last album that Christopher Franke was involved in. One day after the concert in Berlin on August 2, 1987, he left Tangerine Dream. After a short break, he started a successful solo career with a focus on film and TV music.

The Melrose Years

The studio production Optical Race appeared in September 1988. In addition to Froese and Haslinger, Ralph Wadephul appeared on the album for the first time, who also accompanied Tangerine Dream on the following North American tour, but did not appear after that. Optical Race was the first of five productions that appeared on Peter Baumann's “Private Music” label.

For the film Night of Decision - Miracle Mile (original title: Miracle Mile ), which depicts the night before a possible nuclear disaster, they wrote the score in 1989. In the same year they released a soundtrack for the film Destination Berlin . The music was specially composed as a panorama sound for the Imagine 360 ​​video system.

The next studio work was Lily On The Beach . In addition to Edgar and Paul, Hubert Waldner played saxophone and flute and, for the first time, Jerome Froese played guitar in this production. 1990 began with the release of the soundtracks Dead Solid Perfect and Heartbreakers . Here the record company was content with stringing together the short music snippets from the film.

At the beginning of 1990 Edgar Froese was looking for a saxophonist; Friends in Vienna recommended Linda Spa to him. At the only concert in Germany on February 20, 1990 in Berlin's Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , she performed for the first time alongside saxophonist Hubert Waldner with Tangerine Dream. It was also Jerome's first live performance with Tangerine Dream.

The duo Froese / Haslinger briefly became a trio again, as Jerome became a permanent member of the group. The first CD of this formation was Melrose . (The record label was based on the famous Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, hence the name.) Paul Haslinger left the group in late 1990 and devoted himself to solo projects.

The Seattle years

In 1991 the soundtrack The Man Inside / L'Affaire Wallraff was released, as well as a fairy tale CD entitled Rumpelstiltskin , for which Tangerine Dream wrote the music. Kathleen Turner tells the story of Rumpelstiltskin with music .

The next studio CD was the album Rockoon . Here the more modern influence of Jerome became clearer, the pieces became faster and sometimes more rocky.

For the members of the Tangerine Dream International Fan Club they released the CD Quinoa , limited to 1,000 copies . Quinoa was only released as an official album in 1998 .

In 1993, live recordings of Tangerine Dream appeared again under the title 220 Volt Live . On stage, Edgar and Jerome were supported by Zlatko Perica (guitar) and Linda Spa (saxophone and keyboards). The video Three Phase - Past, Present, Future was released for the CD 220 Volt Live . In addition to five pieces that were recorded at the concert on October 25, 1992 at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, there are also video clips and older material such as Phaedra or logos in the credits on the video.

In 1994 the soundtrack for the 1989 film Catch Me If You Can was released . The studio album of 1994 was Turn Of The Tides , which followed the more modern style of Rockoon . Also in 1994 Virgin released an elaborately designed 5 CD box under the title Tangents 1973–1983 . Here you can find pieces from the Virgin decade that Edgar remastered and remixed for this production, as well as ten previously unreleased tracks.

The 1995 production Tyranny Of Beauty continues the direction of its predecessors. With this album they achieve their fifth Grammy nomination in a row. However, they have so far been denied a Grammy. Also in 1995 the CD The Dream Mixes came out on the Virgin label. On the CD, Edgar and Jerome have remixed six tracks from their albums Rockoon , Turn Of The Tides and Tyranny Of Beauty in harder versions that have techno-like rhythms. A video with the title The Video Dream Mixes with a total of eight video clips was released at the same time .

The millennium years

The original video soundtrack of the same name for the film Zoning was released in 1996 (interestingly, Dieter Meier from the Swiss electronic music duo Yello ! Plays one of the main roles in the film “Zoning” ). The “Castle Communications” label also released a box with five CDs under the title The Dream Roots Collection . This time, 1 to 4 tracks from 1970–1973 and 1983–1987 were re-released in remastered versions on CDs. CD No. 5 consisted of new material again.

The studio album of 1996 was called Goblins' Club . On this record, they also worked with the Vienna Boys Choir along who does not with the Vienna Boys' Choir is to be confused. At this time Edgar and Jerome Froese founded their own record label TDI.

The album of the same name for the film Oasis was released by TDI and the video was released by "Camera One". The video shows landscape recordings for which Tangerine Dream wrote atmospheric music. Two live recordings were released for the 1997 world tour: Tournado and Valentine Wheels . The first is the second part of the concert with newer pieces, on Valentine Wheels you can find the first part of the performance with classic Tangerine Dream titles.

Another unusual CD was released under the title Ambient Monkeys . In addition to new compositions, it also contained parts of the works of Georg Friedrich Handel , Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The pieces are connected by ambient noises (bird calls, moving train, jungle noises, etc.). This music was played from the tape as the opening act for the 1997 European tour while the audience waited for the concert.

The year 1998 was marked by a series of publications on the TDI label. The CD Dream Encores contained live material from 1986 to 1997, which had been played as encores at various concerts. The second part of the Dream Mixes came out under the title TimeSquare . Tangerine Dream provided the soundtrack for the video Luminous Visions by the computer artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi , consisting of imaginative, abstract computer animations.

Since material was often left over when composing film music, some of it appeared on the two CDs Hollywood Years Vol. I and Vol. II in 1998. The booklets do not reveal which films the individual titles were originally composed for. Tangerine Dream wrote the score for a film about the Russian Trans-Siberia Express under the title Transsiberia .

On June 12, 1999, the only Tangerine Dream concert of that year took place as part of the KlangArt Festival in Osnabrück. NASA's Mars Polar Lander mission was musically implemented under the motto “Mars Polaris” . The percussionist Emil Hachfeld († 2000), who already appeared on the 97 tour, also provided the appropriate rhythms for this concert. The band was also supported by the guitarist Gerald Gradwohl. A CD with the music from the concert was also released as a studio recording under the title Mars Polaris . On the day of the concert, the CD Sohoman , newly released on the TDI label, was also sold. It contains a 43-minute excerpt from the live concert on February 22, 1982 at the Regent Theater in Sydney. The CD represents the first release of the Tangerine Dream Classic Edition.

The album What A Blast (subtitle: Architecture in Motion ) was a soundtrack to a film about collapsing skyscrapers. The film was released in the USA under the title What A Blast! Architecture In Motion appeared on video. Tangerine Dream created the soundtrack for a film about the Great Wall of China . The music appeared on the CD Great Wall Of China .

In the new millennium, the first releases were the albums Soundmill Navigator and Antique Dreams with older material. The Seven Letters From Tibet followed as a regular studio release . For a long time now, Tangerine Dream has been using more spherical sounds without driving rhythms. In the I-Box 6 CDs with remastered and partly new pieces were released. Another album in the Dream Mixes series was released in 2001, called DM3 - The Past Hundred Moons . In 2002 Edgar Froese's most ambitious work was published - the first part of Dante Alighieri's “The Divine Comedy ”. Inferno is a type of opera that was performed on October 7, 2001 in Bernau Cathedral . In addition to Edgar and Jerome, seven singers appeared, including Iris Kulterer (Iris Camaa) and Jayney Klimek . The album Mota Atma from 2003 is again a soundtrack. In the same year DM4 was released , the fourth part of the Dream Mixes series with partly remastered and also completely re-recorded versions of well-known pieces. 2004 brought the second part of the Divine Comedy, the album Purgatorio . Again Jayney Klimek, Iris Kulterer aka Iris Camaa and other singers support the production. The cover pictures of Inferno and Purgatorio are from Edgar's second wife, the artist Bianca Acquaye.

The third part of the Divine Comedy - Paradiso (Paradise) was premiered on September 23, 24 and 25, 2005 in the Theater von Brandenburg an der Havel and again on January 18 and 19, 2006 in the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam with the Brandenburger Symphony orchestra. A double CD of the Potsdamer Live Concert was announced on September 27, 2006.

On September 21, 2006 a concert took place in the renowned Berlin Tempodrom . Tangerine Dream held a concert there under the name 40 Lifemiles Tour - Roadmap to Music as part of the Popkomm Music Fair in Berlin . The last time Jerome Froese appeared in the band here.

In April 2007, the studio album "Madcap's Flaming Duty" was released as a tribute to the late Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett , which is a pure vocal album. The tracks were composed exclusively by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning . The limited studio album "Springtime in Nagasaki" was also released in April.

In addition, the band was expanded by the Austrian guitar virtuoso Bernhard Beibl and, for live performances, Gerald Gradwohl.

On the occasion of the band's 40th birthday, in September 2007 , Radio Jena and the web radio ZONO reviewed the many faces of Tangerine Dream under the title “Decades Of Dreams” in a long radio night, with Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, Peter Baumann and Klaus Schulze Let the band's history be told in detailed interviews from the 1980s and 1990s.

For free entry, Tangerine Dream played on July 1, 2007 on the market square of the district town of Eberswalde on the occasion of the opening of the Paul Wunderlich House in Eberswalde - an administration building and museum of the world-famous painter and sculptor Paul Wunderlich . On October 7, 2007, the concert "One Night in Space" followed in Frankfurt's Alte Oper, which was originally supposed to take place with Terry Riley , but had to be canceled for health reasons.

In 2008, after a special concert under the motto "Tangerine Dream plays Edgar Froese" in Eindhoven (Netherlands), there was an appearance as the headliner of the Night of the Prog Festival on the Loreley on July 18th. Klaus Schulze also performed at the same concert, but not together with Tangerine Dream. Further performances were in 2008 in London (November 1st), in Edinburgh and in Los Angeles, in 2009 in Berlin, Paris and Japan. On April 1, 2010 they performed again at the Royal Albert Hall in London. On June 24th, 2011 they gave a concert for the Starmus Festival in Tenerife, where Queen guitarist Brian May performed as a guest musician . In October 2011 they played at the Moogfest in Asheville (USA, North Carolina), the seat of the legendary synthesizer manufacturer Moog.

For Tangerine Dream, 2012 is marked by a major tour through Europe (Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, UK, Germany), Canada and the USA. In the fall of 2013, Rockstar Games released the critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto V with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson and The Alchemist , mixed and produced by DJ Shadow . Froese composed 62 hours of music for the soundtrack.

In 2014 there was a major concert tour (Tel Aviv, Barcelona, ​​Paris, London, Nijmegen, several cities in Germany, Warsaw, Moscow, Petersburg and Turin).

The Quantum Years

There was a new cast list for the concerts in Australia in November 2014: Keyboarder Ulrich Schnauss is new and Linda Spa and Iris Camaa were no longer there, after Bernhard Beibl no longer performed at the previous concerts of the Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014.

Bandleader and founder Edgar W. Froese died at the age of 70 on January 20, 2015 in Vienna of a pulmonary embolism. One of his last works was working with Jean-Michel Jarre on his collaboration album Electronica with a piece of music called Zero Gravity . A special vinyl edition of this title has already been released. Edgar Froese's autobiography Force Majeure - 1967-2014 was announced for spring 2015 , which he completed shortly before his death. After a postponement, the book should be published in 2016. The autobiography, which was finally published in autumn 2017, focuses on the band's 70s and 80s despite the additional title.

In 2015 the band worked together with former member Peter Baumann on a “Celebration Album for Edgar” under the title Quantum Gate.

In 2016 there were again regular appearances in the three-piece line-up T. Quäschning, H. Yamane, U. Schnauss (as a substitute for the sick Klaus Schulze ) in the Polish city of Szczecin, in Windeck (Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) for the Vibrations Festival and in Switzerland. The band continues, according to the wishes of its founder Edgar Froese and in his interest.

The TV documentary Tangerine Dream - Sounds from Another World on Arte in November 2016, of which an extended theatrical version was released for the Berlinale in 2017, offers a historical outline of the significance of Tangerine Dream and Edgar Froese . The one-hour film was directed by Margarete Kreuzer and premiered at the Goethe-Institut Paris. Concerts in Budapest and Hong Kong followed in early 2017. Kreuzer's documentary Revolution of Sound: Tangerine Dream (87 min.) Opened in German cinemas in September 2017.

In February 2018 Tangerine Dream performed as the first electronic band of their kind on their Quantum of Electronic Evolution Tour in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg . In 2019, Schiller (Christopher von Deylen) will publish a cooperation with Tangerine Dream on "Morgenstund - Super Ultra Deluxe Edition" (3 CD / 3 BluRay) in the studio session recorded piece "Morgenstern".

Overview of musicians

Paul Frick Ulrich Schnauss Thorsten Quaeschning Jerome Froese Paul Haslinger Johannes Schmoelling Peter Baumann (Musiker) Christopher Franke Conrad Schnitzler Klaus Schulze Edgar Froese

Nominations and Awards

Golden Raspberry

  • 1982: Soundtrack for The Loner (nominated as worst soundtrack)

Grammy Awards

  • 1992: Canyon Dreams (Nominated for Best New Age Album)
  • 1993: Rockoon (Nominated for Best New Age Album)
  • 1994: 220 Volt live (Nominated for Best New Age Album)
  • 1994: Purple Haze (nominated for best rock instrumental performance)
  • 1995: Turn of the Tides (Nominated for Best New Age Album)
  • 1996: Tyranny of Beauty (Nominated for Best New Age Album)

Discography

- List largely without compilations, box sets, samplers and download shop releases (it is not always possible to clearly delineate, as there are sometimes new pieces or rearranged versions on compilations) - for the detailed discography see

and tangerine tree .

Studio albums

  • Electronic Meditation (1970)
  • Alpha Centauri (1971)
  • Time (1972)
  • Breath (1973)
  • Phaedra (1974)
  • Ricochet (1975)
  • Rubycon (1975)
  • Stratosfear (1976)
  • Cyclone (1978)
  • Force Majeure (1979)
  • Tangram (1980) (remixed 2008)
  • Exit (1981)
  • White Eagle (1982)
  • Hyperborea (1983) (remixed 2008)
  • Le Parc (1985)
  • Green Desert (recorded 1973 / released 1986)
  • Underwater Sunlight (1986)
  • Tyger (1987)
  • Optical Race (1988)
  • Lily On the Beach (1989)
  • Melrose (1990)
  • Rockoon (1992)
  • Quinoa (1992) / (1997)
  • Turn of the Tides (1994)
  • Tyranny of Beauty (1995)
  • Dream Mixes 1 (1995)
  • Goblins Club (1996)
  • Ambient Monkeys (1997)
  • Dream Mixes 2 (1997)
  • The Hollywood Years (1998)
  • Times Square (1998)
  • Mars Polaris (1999)
  • The Seven Letters from Tibet (2000)
  • Antique Dreams (2000)
  • I Box (2001)
  • Dream Mixes 3 (2001)
  • Inferno (Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia Part 1) (2002)
  • Dream Mixes 4 (2004)
  • Atlantic bridges (2004)
  • Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia Part 2) (2004)
  • Kyoto (Edgar Froese & Johannes Schmoelling) (1983/2005)
  • Jeanne D'Arc (2005)
  • Phaedra 2005 (2005)
  • Blue Dawn (Edgar Froese & Ralf Wadephul) (1988/2006)
  • Paradiso (Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia Part 3) (2006)
  • Madcap's Flaming Duty (CD and DVD) (2007)
  • Springtime in Nagasaki. Part One from the Five Atomic Seasons (2007)
  • Summer in Nagasaki. Part Two from the Five Atomic Seasons (2007)
  • Bells of Accra (special EP) (2007)
  • One Night in Space (EP) (2007)
  • Silver Siren Collection (2007)
  • Tangine Scales (2007)
  • One Times One (2007)
  • Purple Diluvial (2008)
  • The Anthology Decades - The Space Years Volume One (2008)
  • Views From A Red Train (2008)
  • Booster (2008)
  • The Romantic Sacrifice (2008)
  • Autumn in Hiroshima. Part Three from the Five Atomic Seasons (2008)
  • Fallen Angels (2008)
  • Choice (2008)
  • Booster Vol. 2 (2008)
  • Flame (2009)
  • Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part 1 (2009)
  • A cage in search of a bird (2009)
  • Winter in Hiroshima. Part Four from the Five Atomic Seasons (2009)
  • Dream Mixes 5 (2010)
  • Zeitgeist (2010)
  • The Fifth Atomic Season - The Endless Season (2010)
  • Under Cover - Chapter One (2010)
  • The Island of the Fay - Edgar Allan Poe (2011)
  • Booster IV (2011)
  • The Gate Of Saturn (2011)
  • The Angel Of The West Window - Gustav Meyrink (2011)
  • Mona Da Vinci (2011)
  • Finnegans Wake (2011)
  • Knights Of Asheville (2011)
  • Machu Picchu (2012)
  • Booster V (2012)
  • Lost in Strings Vol. 1 (Edgar Froese plays Guitar) (2013)
  • One Night in Africa (2013)
  • Cruise To Destiny (rehearsal session) (Single-CD) (2013)
  • Booster VI (2 CD) (2013)
  • Franz Kafka - The Castle (2013)
  • Chandra - The Phantom Ferry - Part II (2014)
  • The Music of Grand Theft Auto V, Vol. 2: The Score (2013)
  • GTA 5: The Cinematographic Score (2014)
  • Josephine The Mouse Singer (CD single) (2014)
  • Mala Kunia (CD / EP) (2014)
  • Booster VII (CD single) (2014/2015)
  • Out Of This World (Compilation in memory of Edgar Froese) (CD) (2015)
  • Particles (Double EP) (2016)
  • Quantum Gate (CD) (2017) (Quaeschning, Schnauss, Yamane)
  • Light Flux (CD) (2017) (compositions by Froese)

Soundtracks

Live albums, live DVDs

  • Ricochet (Live in the UK and France) (1975) * Logos (Live at the Dominion in London) (1982)
  • Poland - The Warsaw Concert (Live) (1984) * Tournado (Live in Europe 1997) (1997)
  • Valentine Wheels (Live in London 1997) (1999)
  • Encore (Live North American Tour 1977) (1977)
  • Tangerine Dream - Quichotte (Live at the Palast der Republik East-Berlin) (1980)
  • Sohoman (Live in Sydney 1982) (1999)
  • Soundmill Navigator (Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1976) (2000)
  • Rockface (Live in Berkley 1988) (2003)
  • Alexander Square (Live in Berlin 1989) (1989)
  • The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1 (Live, Compilation) (2003)
  • The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2 (Live, Compilation) (2004)
  • East (Live in Berlin 1990) (2004)
  • Arizona (Live in Scottsdale 1992) (2004)
  • Vault 4 (Live in Brighton UK 1986, Live in Cleveland USA 1986) (2005)
  • Rocking Mars (Live at Klangart Festival 1999 in Osnabrück ) (2005)
  • Inferno-Live (Live in Nideggen 2002) DVD (2006)
  • Live at the Tempodrome Berlin DVD (2006)
  • 35th Phaedra Anniversary Concert - Live in London 2005 DVD (2006)
  • Tangerine Dream Plays Tangerine Dream (CD) (2006)
  • London Astoria Club Concert 2007 (DVD) (2007)
  • Orange Odyssey (DVD) (2007)
  • One Night in Space - Live at the Alte Oper Frankfurt (DVD) (2007)
  • The Epsilon Journey - Live in Eindhoven (DVD) (2008)
  • Loreley (DVD) (2008/2009)
  • The London Eye Concert (DVD, CD) (2008/2009)
  • IZU Live in Japan 2009 (DVD, CD) (2010)
  • Zeitgeist - Concert - Live at Royal Albert Hall London 2010 (3 CD) (2010)
  • Zeitgeist - Tangerine Dream Live At Coliseum Lisbon (DVD) (2010)
  • The Gate of Saturn - Live at the Lowry Manchester (2011)
  • Knights of Asheville - Live at the Moogfest in Asheville 2011 (2011)
  • Live in Budapest at the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall (CD & DVD) (2012)
  • Live at the Admiralspalast Berlin (3 CD) (2012)
  • TD live at the Admiralspalast Berlin (DVD) (2012/2013)
  • Starmus - Sonic Universe - TD & Brian May live (2 CD) (2011/2013)
  • Sorcerer 2014 - The Cinematographic Score (live remake, + additional tracks) (1977/2014)
  • Supernormal - The Australian Concerts 2014 (3 CD) (2014/2015)
  • Phaedra-Farewell Tour 2014 - Live in London (DVD) (2014/2015)
  • Pergamon (1986) (re-release of Quichotte )
  • Live Miles (Live in New Mexico 1986 and Berlin 1987) (1988)
  • 220 Volt Live (Live in Seattle 1992) (1993)
  • Live at the Philharmony Szczecin: Poland 2016 - In Honor of Edgar Froese (2 CD) (2016)
  • Live at Augusta Raurica - Switzerland 2016 (DVD, 2 CD) (released 2019)
  • The Sessions I (CD) (2017)
  • The Sessions II (2 CD, 2018)
  • The Sessions III (CD, 2018)
  • The Sessions IV (CD, 2018)
  • The Sessions V (2 CD with 1 video file, 2017/2018, released 2019)

Filmography (selection)

Film music

Documentaries

  • Tangerine Dream - Signals from Schwäbische Strasse - TV documentary, Germany, WDR, 1976
  • Tangerine Dream - The Highest Paid Practice Group of All Time - TV Documentary, Alexander Weil, SAT.1, 1997
  • Tangerine Dream - Sound from Another World - TV documentary film, Germany 2016, 58 min., Script and director: Margarete Kreuzer, production: Tag / Traum, Eastgate, WDR , rbb , Arte , first broadcast: November 25, 2016 on arte
  • Revolution of Sound: Tangerine Dream - Documentary, Germany 2017, 87 min., Script and director: Margarete Kreuzer, production: Tag / Traum, Eastgate, WDR , rbb , Arte . Release date: September 7, 2017

literature

  • Rolf Sonnemann, Peter Stoeferle, Matt Hargreaves: Voices in the dunes - The Tangerine Dream Worldwide Discography. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1990.
  • Paul Stump: Digital Gothic: A Critical Discography of Tangerine Dream. Firefly Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-946719-18-7 .
  • Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational. The reinvention of pop music in the FRG, 1968–1978. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3424-2 .
  • Edgar Froese: TANGERINE DREAM - FORCE MAJEURE - 1967–2014 , September 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056524-3

Web links

Commons : Tangerine Dream  - Collection of Images

Discographies

About Tangerine Dream

Individual evidence

  1. Jim DeRogatis: Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee 2003, ISBN 0-634-05548-8 . Page 263.
  2. International Essen Songtage 1968. In: Stadt Essen / Detlev Mahnert. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  3. The studio was set up in 1968 in Wilmersdorf (vocational school Pfalzburger Straße 32) for the school band Agitation Free , see Beatstudio in: District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf .
  4. Udo Dennebourg. In: discogs .com
  5. ^ Roland Paulick. In: discogs .com
  6. ^ "Tangerine Dream" on a GDR trip - DER SPIEGEL 5/1980. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  7. ^ The accidental excellence of GTA 5's soundscape. In: Polygon.com , accessed October 13, 2016.
  8. ^ Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure - 1967-2014. ( Memento from October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Eastgate Music Shop on ssl-id.de, accessed on October 13, 2016.
  9. Film music for Kneuss - the story of a nerd on YouTube , based on the film of the same name by Gaudenz Meili , accessed on November 25, 2016.
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