Tyranny Of Beauty - Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dreams finest (half) hour.

Advantages: One of the best 'electronic' albums ever
Disadvantages: It is somewhat short

After the success of their 1974 release "Phaedra", Tangerine Dream released their last organic sounding masterpiece "Rubycon", before becoming a more conventional sounding electronic band. To try and describe the purely instrumental music on this album is difficult. Most people regard electronic music as pings, beeps and other more farty sounds, but here the early synthesisers and manipulated sounds create a wash of noise somewhat like the aural equivalent of a watercolour. The first piece (Rubycon Part One) sounds like a life-cycle of some alien sound creature. The beginning with its gong like sounds conjuring up something stirring in a dark damp cave before bursting into life in the sunshine with eerie bird-like calling. A pulsing sequencer sound builds up to carry our creature onwards through layers of sounds forming, swirling ...

Boolbar 10.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Rubycon - Tangerine Dream

Exit - A classic!

Advantages: Good solid Tangerine Dream music
Disadvantages: Quite quite their best

over here. If you're in Europe right now you would see that all people talk about the Third World War. As musicians we can use our music to say something about the positive side and hope our message gets through." Edgar Froese had organised thousands of copies of Exit to be shipped and distributed free to various people in Russia. A short time before Exit was released; Tangerine Dream had played a special disarmament concert at the Reichstag building in West Berlin in front of around 100,000 people. * The tracks * As mentioned before, the first is a beautiful track called ?Kiew Mission?. A female sensually recites the message of world peace and nuclear disarmament. Very convincing, although the lyrics are in Russian, the mentioning the continents give a good effect. It?s essentially a simplistic, yet universally understandable ...

orrin31 04.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Exit [Remastered] - Tangerine Dream

A Beautiful Dream

Advantages: Has all the old-fashioned romantic charm
Disadvantages: Villain might be a little too scary for kids

. They look as how they are suppose to.The Princess is beautiful and graceful. The Prince is tall and handsome (and I have to say, he is the hunkiest prince of all the cartoons). Maleficent is imposing, aggressive and really scary. These characters do not have the cartoonish features that the modern cartoons do (the newer characters tend to look like characters from Japanese Manga comics). Sleeping Beauty has all the elements of traditional, romantic fairy tales. A beautiful princess, a handsome prince, a terrible villain, magic, fairies, dragon. Yes, some people might turn their nose up on such stories, as they are more accustommed to strong female characters like Jasmine (Aladdin), Ariel (The Little Mermaid) and Belle (Beauty and the Beast). But I think every little girl does dream about this fairy tale. Even Julia Roberts in ...

kairi 19.05.2005 · Read full review
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