This is the best TD has sounded in 30 years. I'm not too big on the covering of the "hits", but when they get to the Sessions, the magic happens. In fact, the new and semi-improvised stuff harkens back to the days of Froese-Frankie-Baumann in the 70s.
I saw them in Roundhouse London yesterday!! 18th of March 2022!! This concert was to take place in 2020 and dates changed twice until this date. It was amazing, such a magical moment. I can't really describe how i felt finally listening to them live. It was a journey of the soul.. Anyone else who was there? 😁
Thanks for posting. Spoiled in places by the 'Yelling yeah!" brigade in the audience. Saw them in Glasgow 1975 at the old Candleriggs Hall . When Baumann, Froes and Franke weaved their way between their Analogue synth set up in the dark and sat down you could have heard a pin drop. Sequences filled and swirled above and around us. They didn't seem to come from the stage at all but morph out of the air around us. At last that's how I remember it. Those were the days!. The current line-up doing their best to keep the TD spirit alive though the wee violin player seems to spend a lot of time standing around. Thanks again for posting
If I remember correctly, TD has been playing music from older recordings in concert since the mid- to late 1980s. So it seems unfair to criticise today's line-up from playing some of that back-catalogue material. On the contrary, the "Quantum years" have brought back an element of improvisation in the encores. I would agree that the mix sounds fairly loud and harsh here, but that's quite different from the latest studio recordings.
Best line up since that period for my money. Love the improvised sessions, love Raum. Also worth checking out : Soundtrack to CARGO by Thorsten. Some hard core, good old fashioned Berlin School on that album.
I first heard of Tangerine Dream in 1985 through the work they did on Street Hawk 🤣 (Le Parc is an all-time favourite of mine). It was the first time 13 year old me became awe-struck by the creative genius behind those incredible, gorgeous layered and filter-swept arpeggios and I had no idea whatsoever how it was done ! All I knew was I really liked that sound - and why couldn’t my Casio MT45 sound the same 😆. Gear Envy had commenced !
this modern start revamp of Stratosphere is very nice, globally the sound remains in the page ... I bought this album when it came out in 1976 only one regret the length is only 34:39 minutes
What may make this most interesting is that track was mostly written by Chris Franke, who had a falling out with Edgar, and was never in the band at the same time as Thorsten.
I've only listened to TD since 1976, still I'm longing to watch them again in Malmö May 17, and in Amsterdam June 2...btw, I sold an album by Cyrille Verdeaux to Ulrich Schnauss at Disocgs a few years ago, after Edgar had died. He wrote that the future of TD was very uncertain then. Edgar himself had said in 2014 that there would be no more concerts after Dec. 31, 2014... /J, Sweden
i wish they'd create a more rounded soundscape that was the best of TD rather than creating these harsher sounds ...its like theyre trying to make a loud, edgy statement with each track
Listen to the Sessions. These are works by modern TD that harken back to the very old days of Froese-Franke-Baumann, long evolving soundscapes that are mostly improvised. True TD.
Interesting comment. I do, and don't. Both were more talented than given often given credit for. But I don't miss that era very much. I grew tired of Jerome's 120bpm drum beats, even Linda's sax playing. Both were good on stage though. I did always wonder what TD could have done with Iris singing more. Always hoped to hear her sing Shy People, to no avail.
Listen to the Sessions. Live works by modern TD that harken back to the very old days of Froese-Franke-Baumann, long evolving soundscapes that are mostly improvised. True TD. I agree much of what you see here is a re-do to fill seats, but I'll go see them just to hear what happens with the Sessions, even if they "botch" it.
I remember when these guys filled the Hammersmith Apollo in London in 1980's, and having seen them OVER 20 times .........now with Edgar sadly gone.... the 2022 Tour resorts to Night Clubs as venues......... low capacity and cheap...............seems like TD's days are over!
Depends what city you're in. In Birmingham, the show was at our beautiful ancestral Town Hall, capacity 1100. Glasgow is a smaller city so will therefore attract less fans, but even so, is this not a church?
I'd not call the places they're playing on tour right now as night clubs, nor are they of low capacity. And the tickets are reasonably priced, but not cheap. Would you rather see Depeche Mode and feel like you've got your money's worth by paying £220 for the worst seat in the house? And do you realise much of that "big venue" cash goes straight into the pockets of the crappy TicketMaster, and the O2 franchise? WAKE UP.
Not the same as it was with Edgar and Chris. Their original sound and compositions were unique. Now all the tracks sound the same, like a washing machine. Those flashing light sticks are so annoying. Now, sadly, only their name remains, not the music.
Disagree, but I see your points. The light sticks were indeed annoying. I'd like to hear more of the Sessions, which really is the heart of TD. It was back when the band was Froese, Franke and Baumann, and it is now when Quaeschning, Frick, and Yamane perform similar long semi-improvised evolving pieces. Give Sessions a listen with an open ear. It's the best work TD has done in many, many years.
Un peu de silence, Nom de Dieu! Au Palace, vers 1979, en alternative au théâtre Mogador pour cause déplorée à déplacer foule dans Paris, environ deux mille spectateurs et la musique de Force Majeure..., le show-laser était déjà pas terrible...
Forgive my opinion, but ambient music has come a long way from this. I think this sounds really dated and as cheesy as can be. I loved T.D. in the 70s, but great breakthroughs have been made in ambient since, none of which seems to be reflected here. After hearing Alio Die, Aphex Twin (his ambient stuff), or the great Chihei Hatakeyama to name a few, this sounds both rudimentary and overblown at the same time, simple diatonic scales sequenced over and over. I find the massive amount of gear laughable too. This could be done with a couple analog synths, some VSTs and Abelton live -- all the euro rack stuff is total overkill. Just one guy's -- who nobody has ever heard of -- opinion, I know it ain't worth much....
Opinions are like the .......I have Bitwig ( a fine DAW), lots of vsts and TD beat the shit out of me. Just because you have running shoes does not make you Mo Farah. My attempts at Aphex Twin and Cabaret Voltaire are equally shite. TD rule and current incarnation are the business.
Agree… The should have “STARTED” their OWN “ENTITY” “GREATEST HITS OF T.D.” is ON POINT The “DREAM” of Edgar to have “Tangerine Dream” CARRY ON FORWARD isn’t happening 🙄 Tangerine Dream DIED with the passing of its FOUNDER 🥲 (In MY opinion anyway) Lots of RECORDINGS to listen to 💜✨✨✨🙏
You could easily argue that much of Chris Franke's work could never be categorised as ambient. Let's face it, Brian Eno is ambient and Franke era TG isn't comparable to Eno because it isn't ambient.
And Eurorack is about as close as you can currently get to classic Franke era TG. That's why it's there. Yes you could do it with Ableton. But then purists would bitch to high heaven about them using Ableton instead of hardware because it's not a performance. Even though Orbital pull it off with aplomb. Bottom line: someone's always going to find a reason to moan and drone.
