Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: Tangerine Dream

ma son quelli che han plagiato asos dei pf?
č tutta cosě la loro discografia?
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Io arturone non ti capisco,hai inziato ad offendermi con la storia della (K)
e altro... invece di stare allo scherzo che ripeto hai iniziato tu..tu cosa
fai mi rovini....
Io non so se questo č il modo di comportarsi....

 č tutta cosě la loro discografia?
No, infatti appena Froese & C conoscono VCS3 e annessi
diventano un consolidato trio improvvisativo che fa intrecci
di tastiere. Nulla di floydiano in Rubycon o Phaedra.
Bellissimo il secondo disco solista di Froese, "Epsilon in
Malaysian Pale".
bye
simple_t

- When were TD formed and where?
Tangerine Dream were founded in September 1967 in Berlin, Germany.
- Which instruments were in the original line-up?
Drums, guitar, bass, violin/flute.
- Is the electronic musician Klaus Schulze the same person who played drums
on TD's first album, Electronic Meditation?
Yes, Klaus joined TD as a drummer in the early Seventies, after Edgar had
seen him perform as part of an experimental duo named PSY. Klaus now lives
in Northern Germany.
- Was Christopher Franke a founding member of the band?
No. He joined TD as a drummer for the second album, "Alpha Centauri". TD had
already existed for more than three years before Edgar asked him to join the
band. Edgar discovered Franke during an audition for drummers for a
recording of a German cover version of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer",
which he co-produced. The recording went well and so he asked the then
17-year-old Franke to drum on the next TD-album.
- Who discovered TD before they were well-known, internationally?
The laurels for TD's discovery for the international market have to go to
the BBC's DJ-icon John Peel. He featured Tangerine Dream so often on his
weekly show that Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records became aware of
the group and signed them for a five-year-contract in the summer of '73.
How did the recording of "Phaedra", TD's first big success outside of their
native Germany, go about?
It was the first recording session for Virgin Rec. and TD愀 first recording
session outside their country of birth. It commenced on Nov 20th, 1973, in
Virgin Rec.'s own Manor Studios in Oxfordshire and saw TD using solely "high
tech" instruments for the first time. It was hard labor for the group, as
they had acquired large parts of the equipment only a couple of weeks before
the sessions started. The Moog sequencer saw its debut on the album - a
mind-boggling affair, as at the time there was no way to store a sound that
had been created and the instrument had to be tuned for several hours before
recording could commence. The beginning of the album is actually an
improvisational attempt to "tame this machine": when the group were
recording the title track of the album, a bass pattern did not function the
way it did in rehearsals - it started to go out of tune with the Mellotron.
Chris Franke then forced the pattern back into tune while it already played
and, as a result, received a sequence of notes. The result was amazing and,
fortunately, Edgar Froese had instructed the sound engineer to record
whatever they were playing. Thus, this rehearsal ended up on the final
record. The recording sessions went on for two more weeks until the final
mix.
- When was Phaedra released and how successful was it?
It was released in the UK in April 1974. It was extremely successful all
over the globe and earned the band gold records in more than seven
countries.
- Did Virgin Records exert more pressure on the band after the success of
"Phaedra"?
Fortunately, not. Although, the band certainly felt the ambition to repeat
their success when they re-entered the Manor Studios to record "Rubycon",
Richard Branson and Virgin Records pretty much let them do whatever they
wanted for the LP.
- Was Michael Hoenig ever a permanent member of the group?
Not exactly - he joined TD only for a tour in Australia and a gig at the
Royal Albert Hall in London in 1975. Practically over night, Peter Baumann
had left the band to embark on some crazy trip to Asia by car, so TD needed
a replacement for the scheduled Australian dates fast - and Hoenig was the
only person they knew at the time who had experience with synths, so the
choice was obvious. When they returned to Berlin, the found a worn-out,
disillusioned and completely bankrupt Peter Baumann who had returned, so
Edgar and Chris gave him the chance to rejoin the group.

 Tieni presente che fino a Zeit non avevano nemmeno un Moog.
Valerio HT:
Beh, disponevano di modulatori ad anello e oscillatori, comunque, 
e poi Florian Frick suuonava il Moog su "Nebulous Dawn", 
e Steve Schroider era all'organo.
In ogni caso "Zeit" è una pietra miliare della "musica cosmica"
Saluti
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