Edgar Froese, the head and founder of Tangerine Dream, had the wonderful idea of translating the current knowledge of the quantum physics - which he was very much interested in - into sound and already started this project before his sad death in January 2015. The cupdisc MALA KUNIA was the first music out of "The Quantum Years" series which was published in November 2014 on the occasion of the MMW Festival concert in Melbourne.
20.000 miles from Vienna to Down Under and return. Enjoying a marvelous calm flight with Qantas and Emirates, crossing the outback and the rainforest up to Cairns very north of Australia. Alright, TD did again one of their little adventure tours. What does this all has to do with music? All and everything, because it does reflect our state of consciousness while traveling. The band's new line-up, who gave their first concerts of 'The Quantum Years' Down Under, can be heard with the new bandmate Ulrich Schnauss. Of course it was too early to give 'The Quantum Years' musically the full speed. Also the final use of the new experimental technology, which is ready to go for Europe next year, could not have been completely set up because of some astronomical cargo costs. But please here is a little note for those fans who always want TD to invent the wheel the second time on each of their new recordings - we're still humans!
In addition to the two CDs containing the Melbourne Town Hall concert, you will find the third CD compiled of the best compositions played in celebration of the two 'Sorcerer' concerts performed at the ACMI Melbourne (Australian Centre For The Moving Image) in November, the most modern and soundwise really futuristic equipped cinema which exists in Australia. But that's not all.. together with the three CD Set comes a Din A4 XL Booklet (as you already know from the Phaedra Farewell Tour) which will make you a travel and concert companion during TD's visit Down Under. So join us and take a seat for a long travel to the other side of the planet earth.
THE BEST OF THE TWO 'SORCERER' CONCERTS - SELECTION!
So much of new differently arranged and so-called "collector's" compositions have been located at the Eastgate Studios within the last couple of months, so that the decision for the SEVENTH and LAST double CD out of the Booster series was made very easily. The Booster CD's have been a kind of a corner stone within the TD community building some guidelines for those newbies who needed some help where to start discovering the various landmarks of TD's work. Quite a reasonable number of newer compositions have also found their way into the public. But we do not want the Boosters become a racehorse within a series of titles all running against each other. Therefore decision has been made to stop with a last product which simultaneously has some of the best and rare TD compositions from all decades to offer - of course subjectively speaking. Relax, sit back and enjoy a little trip with the TD time machine through a well-known and sometimes strange musical territory.
During Tangerine Dream's Australian concerts in mid-November we will start shipping the first compositional work of the new line-up comprising Edgar Froese, Ulrich Schnauss, Thorsten Quaeschning and Hoshiko Yamane. It is the format of a so-called Cupdisc (EP) with a running time of nearly 55 minutes and the first product out of "The Quantum Years" series starting on 16th November 2014 with the MMW Festival concert in Melbourne. This cupdisc is named "MALA KUNIA" - the name of two Aboriginal tribes - according to Aboriginal mythology - living ages ago around Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, whereas the Mala tribe lived on the sunny side and the Kunia on the shady side of the rock.
This release will come as a limited edition because it's just the overture to a bigger CD/Vinyl release in early spring 2015.
This new triple live CD which contains all material from Tangerine Dream's recent tour through various places around Europe, will be the last document from this Phaedra Farewell Tour. Even some titles from the gigs on the Caribbean Sea are part of the package. To cover as much images as possible for you to follow the trip on and off stage, we have included a big separate 74 page booklet of high quality. So while listening to the music, you can recall some of the pictures from the shows and also lots of material from the meet and greet backstage. This time we decided not just to record one single concert, we rather wanted to give you the best compilation on the most interesting performances of each of the titles played on various stages.
THE two most requested items on our PHAEDRA FAREWELL TOUR here in Europe are now ready for shipping worldwide: The 44 page tour programme printed on high quality glossy paper and the new CUPDISC (EP) "Josephine The Mouse Singer" (length: ca. 35 min). For those of you who were unable to attend one of the European concerts within the last few weeks, this will be the last chance to get both memorabilias. As the numbers are limited and will not be reprinted, take a chance to purchase them right now. By the extention of the tour to other territories, there will be a different cupdisc and tour programme on sale.
It was on December 7th, 1977 at 7 pm when Carlos Enduras climbed up his way to the data shelter in the Greenland hills to check a malfunction which occurred on the monitors at the military headquarter near Thule, Greenland's capital. Carlos all in a sudden was confronted by a character whose behaviour was strange and unknown to him as a human being. Sentences of serious concerns did strike him mentally like "You're not even able to understand your own life plans full of confusion and you don't have any knowledge at all about the manifestation of other life forms - how will you identify any data outside the range of your imperfect equipment which is totally useless for the aims of your project?" After a longer conversation, the character disappeared, but offered a second talk next day 7pm, same place up in the mountains of Greenland.
Now this is the continuation of the Chandra story: Part two - exciting and unique music developed from of a mysterious unusual story. Amazing how precise some information has been given about the future of the human race, way beyond pure fiction, reflected by sounds and driving sequences.
The score for the groundbreaking game GTA 5 was based on the merging of four different artist inputs, a procedure the music supervisor of the game had to follow. Finally it worked perfectly for the game. What has been left out, necessarily to give the game a needed sound dress in its abstract form, is the so-called cinematographic score. Here you will find the music without any other information from the game itself. It's the pure musical environment composed and played solely by Tangerine Dream. Maybe you will recognize a tune or rhythm here and there, but everything is built in the dress of sequencer lines and melodies as it was composed in the first place. This special edition is LIMITED to 2000 copies - for our diehard fans - and will not hit the major shops anywhere.
There is a hidden secret behind this unfinished story of Franz Kafka. THE CASTLE is never meant to be a building as we would expect it. Kafka goes further, much further. The story of THE CASTLE follows a deeper study of mankind and society and is maybe one of the most challenging projects TD came up with. So take a ticket to ride and enjoy the musical atmosphere soon.
In October 2006 in an old tribal home at Madagascar someone of the elder people told us about the development of the human race: "Here your feet are touching the cradle ground of mankind!" he said, "What terrible price this African race had to pay in ages just for being the first ones on this planet". In that night the idea was born to compose a few songs for a TD Africa compilation. Not the typical ethnic acoustic material - there are others who did it much more authentically. "One Night In Africa" reflects the timeless atmosphere of those African spirits sprayed out over the globe in hundreds of years. TD wanted to pay a little tribute to the positive fact of their human existence and endless passion. Even during wars, the brutality and mindless behaviour of so-called civilized nations the people of this extraordinary continent have shown their willingness to forgive those who came second. Touch the ground yourself musically - it is your ground, your cradle as well.
PS: Especially enjoy FOUR very new tracks on this CD (number 2,4,6 + 8)!