Tangerine Dream - My Appraisal.

[DSJR]

I love the ambiant stuff Eno did and have some of the Ambient series he founded (?). Day of Radiance by Laraaji is a favourite, although it will drive some of you up the wall.

Anyone who also loves TD's ZEIT really does deserve my undying respect, as it's hard going even for me - Largo in four movements indeed.............

Dave-n-Sue, if you're still following this, try to listen to TeeDee's "Tangram" album. very pleasant that one...

[Haselsh1]

One of my all time favourite ambient series was 'Thursday Afternoon' by Eno composed for a video installation he was working on some years ago. It lasts for around sixty four minutes and is sooooo relaxing (with weed or without).

[DaveK]

"....is sooooo relaxing (with weed or without)."

For goodness sake - I thought we were all friends on here - why didn't someone tell me that the recipe had two ingredients - Ive been trying to achieve audio Nirvana by just listening to the music - all becomes clear now.
But it might need a lot for me to appreciate Rubicon
Cheers,

[Barry]

"....is sooooo relaxing (with weed or without)."

For goodness sake - I thought we were all friends on here - why didn't someone tell me that the recipe had two ingredients - I've been trying to achieve audio Nirvana by just listening to the music - all becomes clear now.
But it might need a lot for me to appreciate Rubicon
Cheers,

Fear not Dave, the use of 'certain substances' is not a neccessary prerequisite to the enjoyment of music, although a glass of wine, real ale or a slug of your favourite spirit can add to the experience.

No, it was just a couple of us hinting to illegal activities in the past.

TD's 'Pheadra' really is a good disc to play last thing at night, before you go to bed. I often used to play it on a Sunday night to relax me before having to face work the following day.

Regards

[Barry]

I love the ambiant stuff Eno did and have some of the Ambient series he founded (?). Day of Radiance by Laraaji is a favourite, although it will drive some of you up the wall.

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I like his 'Music for Airports', especially 1/1. Quite meditative and Zen like.

Regards

[DaveK]

Fear not Dave, the use of 'certain substances' is not a neccessary prerequisite to the enjoyment of music, although a glass of wine, real ale or a slug of your favourite spirit can add to the experience.

No, it was just a couple of us hinting to illegal activities in the past.

TD's 'Pheadra' really is a good disc to play last thing at night, before you go to bed. I often used to play it on a Sunday night to relax me before having to face work the following day.

Regards

Hi Barry,
Thanks for that - got your message just in time to cancel my delivery !! (jus' kiddin' , )
I can only relax in the warm afterglow of something I've just enjoyed, , and sorry, Phaedra just doesn't qualify (yet ?)
Cheers,

[Spectral Morn]

When I was in college back in the early 80's, I used to regularly have my leg pulled about needing to be under the influence of certain substances to enjoy Gong, Steve Hillage, Magma and Hawkwind. Nope...never needed or took any such stuff.

However I prefer TD's more melodic and less avant garde music. German electronic music can be very melodic, but it does tend to lean more to the abstract. For instance I just don't get CAN at all...sorry.

Anyone like Eloy ?



Regards D S D L

[DSJR]

I love Can, but some of it is hard going

I played "No Pussyfooting" last night and my reaction after 30 years is "what the F*** were these two on?" ---- Self indulgent cr@p I had to admire that it was recorded using two Revox A77's though..

"Thursday Afternoon?" Yep, like that one as well. Another Eno favourite is "Music for Films." Not the best sounding, especially as the CD emphases distortion that's there on the LP as well, but "Alternative 3" is a favourite (interesting TV programme if anyone caught it at the time).

Eno's "Apollo" has a well used track "An Ascent" which has me in tears every time I hear it - I made up a tape (yes, a cassette ) when my mother passed on and this track evokes strong anguished memories of that time, when I was single.

Rubycon (with a "Y") is TD's mid seventies masterwork IMO. Try part 2 first, follow the sequences (edited together rather than "played" as Redshift's Mark Shreeve seems to be able to do) to the end, where the lovely mellotron pads blend into the phased sea-shore, and then to the ending which I find evocative of "The Lark Ascending." Part 1 of this album is, for me, dominated by the pulsating sequencing..

At the time, I was happy to listen to this stuff. Today, I regret not buying a small synth and learning to play it. If anyone here tried the Siliconsequences video on Youtube, linking across to the guy's site is a revelation. All those knobs to twiddle and hunfreds of patch chords - I'd be in heaven

[DaveK]

Dave-n-Sue, if you're still following this, try to listen to TeeDee's "Tangram" album. very pleasant that one...

Hi Dave,
Thanks for the pointer. Just taken delivey this morning, ex-eBay (for £1.50 = my sort of bargain ) a LP of Tangram in near mint condition as far as my eyesight, cloth ears and set up can detect. Spent the last hour listening to both sides and .................
better and more interesting (less boring, more happening) than Phaedra and Rubicon and perhaps on a par with Distant Trains (but very different). I need to listen to it a few more times but I don't think that I will ever be 'Tangerined' like the guy in the advert who gets 'Tango'd .
Cheers,

[DSJR]

Doesn't matter. BM will be along in a minute to put you right about ZEIT but once you find an album of theirs that you can enjoy, the others either side of it sort of come along all on their own.

You may also like "Underwater Sunlight." This is very melodic and has real emotion and "texture" to the music. There are plenty in between, of which Exit and Logo's may suit you best at this point (if they're cheap on Amazon, buy the "definitive issue" CD's - most can be got for very little money). Le Parc is fun as well, although the double release of Poland takes some listening to play all through (later for you, perhaps...). I also love the music on White Eagle, but this harks back to the seventies style in places and the dull, "furry" sounding synths don't appeal to this audiophool...

Have you tried mid-seventies Tomita yet? or Blackouts by Ashra (Manuel Gottsching)?