I've been a fan for over 30 years and they are still amazing to this day How did they write the material because its amazing I can't even think of a close second band or even a covers band who can even compare to TD Peter Baumann Edgar Froese and Chris Franke 😊😊😊😊
Love the overwhelming wash of Mellotrons. In the day, each member of TD had their own M400 (probably with many tape frames). They cherished that analogue machine like no other. It is true: You won't hear music like this again. What we have in retrospect is timeless and invaluable.
Edgar had a white Mark V for the 1977 tour. By the 80's Edgar said he had 50-60 tape frames, many with his own synth recordings so he could have polyphonic preset
After reading your comment (Wow!) I just had to reply. You are spot on. This has always been my favorite side of "Encore", played this track so much and still do. As someone told me who is also a long time TD fan, "You'll never hear music like this again." In a way he's right. Sad to think.
wow - nice to read, how much it means to most of you - especially from people, who have been there. synth are still a big theme in germany (right now eurorack modulars are on the uprise with the younger ones) and tangerine dream were our heroes. one reason i made it into synthesis and later digital. still emotional after all these years have gone by...those were the days. thank you.
yes, i really like this album too, i've found the Vinyl in a "street market" and I can't believe in what i see in that moment. Encore first press 1977 code 25495 German retail. Unbelievable
This music gives me goose pimples! It evokes strong associations with the first three (or so) chapters of Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel "Dolphin Island" - the beginning, when the huge cargo hovercraft "Santa Anna" makes an emergency stop in the midwest US in the middle of the night and the main character, a teenager named Johnny Clinton, climbs aboard out of sheer curiosity - and becomes a stowaway when the craft takes off again; the middle of the piece, when "Santa Anna" crashes in the South Pacific after an engine explosion and the panic-stricken teenager runs about the doomed craft's corridors, trying to find the lifeboat before it's too late; and the ending, when Johnny (after finding out that he's been left behind because nobody knows he's there!) jumps overboard, the craft sinks and he looks around - only to see the lifeboat leave the scene without him.
First heard this on Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show. Very brave of him to play it, as it is more like classical music. I love the bassline and how the arpeggiators dance over and around it.
Now this is TD, 100% on it, when everyone was getting off on punk rock and disco bee gees crap, these boys were laying down the roots for 80’s synth inspired pop / rock, but unfortunately TD were finished the day Chris Franke left the band.
@NordikFilm: I was in the audience where this recording was made - Washington, D.C. - the MC there was from the college radio station WGTB 90.1. His on-air name was Professor Mota !!! I do not think that the DC show was credited as a source on the liner notes - but Prof Mota's voice IS UNMISTAKABLE !!! was an incredible experience/show !!!
Thank you Ruth, i never knew that, I have the LP, cant remember if the location was credited, yes, i went to see them that year over here in the UK in London, fabulous.
yes... hair raises on the back of my neck, chills run down my spine at that point... on mix tapes in the past I often faded in just before that... and later in the piece there are themes from Sorcerer... fantastic piece.
I like Tangerine Dream. What a surprise! I particularly like this @john tuffen @adrian Sach @dave galham @martin @Liza Tuffrey @iain Pendry 😅 @simon walters
