So tonight is a slightly impromptu show, prompted by bringing the wrong bag into the station. Rather than literally repeat what I played for all y'all two weeks ago, I am leveraging the CKCU library to bring you the next installment in the ongoing series on Tangerine Dream, which should be something. And I'm not entirely without some other tricks to get us through two hours of fun...
| Speaking Gently Badbadnotgood - IV - Innovative Leisure 
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| Meeting in the Aisle Radiohead - Airbag... How Am I Driving? - Parlophone |
| Touch Me and Die Kara-Lis Coverdale - Aftertouches - Sacred Phrases
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| Lotus Flower Radiohead - The King of Limbs - XL |
| Rainbow Music Robert T - LNP Compilation 2 - Low Noise Productions
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| Burn the Witch Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool - XL
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| Daydreaming Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool - XL
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| After the initial block of music we dive into some mid-1980s Tangerine Dream. I am hearing all of this for the first time with you, but I'm using the progressive rock algorithm of always going with the longest track as the likely best one. We start this evening with the final chronological recordings of the Froese/Franke/Schmoelling lineup (featured on the recent Tangerine Dream Encore program) before diving into the Froese/Franke/Haslinger material.
We start with the double-live album Poland, which is considered by many the high point of the Schmoelling-era group... let's hope they're right! |
| Poland Tangerine Dream - Poland - The Warsaw Concert - Jive Electro |
| Next up is a track from the Froese/Franke/Schmoelling album Le Parc (1985). Each track on this album is inspired by a park. On this track (Yellowstone Park) there are actually ... vocals! They are performed by Clare Torry, who was the vocalist on Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky. How well do the vocals work on this album? Let's find out! |
| Yellowstone Park Tangerine Dream - Le Parc - Jive Electro |
| And NOW we move into a new era of Tangerine Dream, the era of Froese, Franke, and Paul Haslinger. The 1986 release Underwater Sunlight features a sidelong suite called Song of the Whale, so OBVIOUSLY that's what I'm going to play. |
| Song of the Whale Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight - Jive Electro |
| And NOW we are going to play some music from the album Tyger, which apparently features spoken word... which is not exactly considered TD's forte. Look folks, sometimes we have to explore scary terrain in order to grow as people. This may be one of those times. While going through the vinyl library I saw that CKCU actually has TWO copies of this album. Now a few weeks back, John on the Oort Cloud played two copies of the classic TD album Rubycon at the same time on two different turntables. As a tribute to him, I will play two copies of the slightly less classic TD album Tyger at the same time on two different turntables. |
| Alchemy of the Heart Tangerine Dream - Tyger - Jive Electro |
| Smile Tangerine Dream - Tyger - Jive Electro |
| We conclude this tour of Tangerine Dream with 1988's Optical Wave, their first release on Peter Baumann's Private label (it all comes full circle...). Christopher Franke left for this album, so it's only Froese and Haslinger. Much of the album is programmed with an Atari computer! Let's see what this sounds like... |
| Marakesh Tangerine Dream - Optical Wave - Private |
| Atlas Eyes Tangerine Dream - Optical Wave - Private |
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12:23 AM, June 16th, 2016