Edgar was hanging out there and the both of them often jumped into a time capsule travelling back to the Virgin years. Edgar also met Paul Haslinger in L. There are very few people with whom Edgar has no contact anymore. Overview Portraits Live Backstage. Tangerine Dream - Itinerary: The Concert Memorabilia This coffee-table book by Brad Duke is a painstakingly detailed and incredibly massive exhibit of Tangerine Dream's paper past.
News all news. The album was completed while hanging out after the tour at a friend's place in LA. Because of various reasons the album had a delay for over about seventeen years before it now will be presented to the public.
On his homepage Ralf Wadephul tells about the making of Blue Dawn : "After many years I got a call from Edgar asking if I would be interested in collaborating again on a studio project regarding unfinished sketches from off days during the US tour. I guess he had already in mind to release the material under specific circumstances.
But how could it work? After the split I continued working for years in the same field of music. So I started digging into my library of various work in order to find some 88 stuff. After weeks I found these tapes on one of my hard disk. The result sounded very much 'tourlike' so I had to give it quite a bit of polish treatments as well as adding some newer sounds. But it wasn't too different from the old TD tracks back then. At the same time Edgar did the same to some of his older 'tourlike' material.
One of TD's technicians knew a way of cleaning up the stuff with some special technical treatments -- thanks Christian!
So we met in Vienna in to check all the material -- and what a surprise, most of the music did merge together so smoothly, that it didn't take more than two weeks to complete the record. And it was there -- the phatt and powerful old analogue sound!
At , a synthesized Spanish guitar plays pensively and then establishes an arpeggio pattern with atmospheric synth effects playing around it. A light percussive rhythm starts and a nice melody follows.
This track then settles into a lofty and lovely piece which is the longest track on the album at over 8 minutes. A mid-tempo rhythm is established right away on this synth piece. Again, as is the case with the Froese tracks on this album, there isn't much development here as it remains pretty level all the way through. On the 2nd half of the album, things tend to get a little less interesting as the next several tracks start to sound too similar without much change through their individual run times.
This tends to make them less interesting. It is a bit exotic with a steel drum effect but like the previous track, is really nothing special and doesn't change much. Other than some synthesized vocal-sounding effects, this one doesn't offer anything very interesting. After this, things get a little more interesting for the last two tracks. It immediately starts with a metallic effect, then a slightly more interesting electronic pattern is established with a beat.
This one has more interesting effects and is somewhat metallic sounding, so at least it stands out a little more. An effect sounds sort of like a native flute halfway through. Later, a guitar solo follows. Other appearances of this track in a re-recorded form appear on his solo album under the title 'Suffering Sharks'. It starts out quite ambient with a nice submerged sound and a subdued high pitched synth making a melody.
The atmosphere of this one is mostly ambient, but there is an interesting guitar effect added later, and things start to get more intense and dramatic as it continues. At about the mark, percussion kicks in creating an adventurous feel.
So, most of the tracks on this collection of ideas started several years earlier are available on other albums in re-recorded versions. It seems to me that Waldphul's compositions are actually more developed and Froese's are kind of underwhelming. Even then, things are not progressive and quite accessible.
There are two tracks on here that are standouts, and they are the most ambient ones; 'Food for the Gods' and 'Blue Dawn'. It is a nice album, especially for Waldphul's tracks, but the three tracks that begin the 2nd side are not very interesting and the album begins to sag a bit, almost not redeeming itself. But at least it ends strong.
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