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Tangerine Dream

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LabelOhr

FormatLP

GenreElectronic

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Original 1973 first pressing on Ohr with gatefold Sleeve of Tangerine Dream's fourth album.

"Final album for the Ohr label. Apparently by this point, Edgar Froese was getting unhappy with Rolf Ulrich Kaiser marketing everyone on his label as freaks, and in fact Kaiser would shortly change the name of Ohr to Komische Musik (of course, things would only get worse when Kaiser released those Cosmic Jokers albums, against the wish of some, especially Klaus Schulze). Anyway, the band continues the same, unusual ‘spacy music’ they did their previous two albums. Only know, Edgar Froese started to include Mellotron, which he put to good use on the title track, "Fauni Gena", and "Wahn". This is also their most ‘accessible’ Ohr album, even if the music is still just as unstructured with hardly anything call conventional. "Fauni Gena" is Edgar Froese's Mellotron tour-de-force, as it's almost nothing but Mellotron (as electronic chirping birds). This sounds like a blueprint for his second solo album, "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale", except for one major difference: this is much more experimental. "Circulation of Events" is another really sinister sounding piece, no doubt caused by the strange droning and odd electronic effects. "Wahn" consists of a bunch of yelling and screaming, with startling percussion, before it ends with Mellotron. This also is much more concrete and aggressive music than on their earlier albums, and there resides a huge dramatic tension within the architecture of this surreal composition. Also the atonal moments have decreased to quite small amounts from the previous albums, and in some parts there is a strong "cinematic" feeling."


Details
Cat. number: OMM 556 031, OMM 556.031
Year: 1973

This edition

condition: VG (some surface noise)  / VG+ (general wear with 1" sticker removal rip on front cover and lighrt ring wear on back)

Format

Quadrophonische Produktion

Nur stereo und mono abspielbar

Recorded [at Studio Dierks] Stommeln-Koeln in December '72 and January '73.

Distribution by Metronome Records GmbH Hamburg

Equipment used by Farfisa and EMS Electronic/London

Printed in Germany

Made in Germany

Comes in gatefold sleeve.

First catalog number on sleeve (spine, rear), second one on B-side label.

Release notes

Quadrophonische Produktion Nur stereo und mono abspielbar Recorded [at Studio Dierks] Stommeln-Koeln in December '72 and January '73. Distribution by Metronome Records GmbH Hamburg Equipment used by Farfisa and EMS Electronic/London Printed in Germany Made in Germany Comes in gatefold sleeve. First catalog number on sleeve (spine, rear), second one on B-side label.

Tracklist
AAtem20:25
B1Fauni-Gena10:43
B2Circulation Of Events5:49
B3Wahn4:31
Credits
Chris Franke
Composed By, Performer [Played By], Organ, Synthesizer [VCS3 Synthi], Percussion, Voice, Written-By
Edgar Froese
Composed By, Performer [Played By], Design [Sleeve], Painting [Cover], Mellotron, Guitar, Organ, Voice, Written-By
Peter Baumann
Composed By, Performer [Played By], Organ, Synthesizer [VCS3 Synthi], Piano, Written-By
Marcel Fugere
Photography By
Monique Froese
Photography By
Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser
Producer, Recording Supervisor
Tangerine Dream
Producer
Dieter Dierks
Recorded By