Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar … Read Full Bio ↴Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese having been the only continuous member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-'70s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In 1979, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann. Since Froese's death in 2015, the group has been under the leadership of Thorsten Quaeschning (Froese's chosen successor and the current longest-serving band member, having joined in 2005). He is joined by violinist Hoshiko Yamane who joined in 2011, Ulrich Schnauss who joined in 2014 and Paul Frick who joined 9 June 2020.
Tangerine Dream are considered a pioneering act in electronica. Their work with the electronic music Ohr label produced albums that had a pivotal role in the development of the German musical scene known as kosmische ("cosmic"). Their "Virgin Years", so called because of their association with Virgin Records, produced albums that further explored synthesizers and sequencers, including the UK top 20 albums Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975). The group also had a successful career composing film soundtracks, creating over 60 scores, which include those for the films Sorcerer, Thief, The Soldier, Risky Business, Flashpoint, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Three O'Clock High, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile.
From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream continued to explore other styles of instrumental music as well as electronica. Their recorded output has been prolific, including over one hundred albums. Among other scoring projects, they helped create the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Their mid-1970s work has been profoundly influential in the development of electronic music styles such as new age (although the band themselves disliked the term) and electronic dance music.
Their most recent album of all-new music, Quantum Gate, was released on 29 September 2017. In December 2019, the band released Recurring Dreams, a compilation of new recordings of some of the band's classic compositions.
The group is currently working on a new album as a four-piece to be released in 2021 via Kscope.
Tangerine Dream began as a surreal rock band, with each of the members contributing different musical influences and styles. Edgar Froese's guitar style was inspired by Jimi Hendrix, while Christopher Franke contributed the more avant garde elements of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Terry Riley. Yes-like progressive rock influence was brought in by Steve Jolliffe on Cyclone. The sample-based sound collages of Johannes Schmoelling drew their inspiration from a number of sources; one instance is Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on parts of Logos Live, and the track "Love on a Real Train" from the Risky Business soundtrack.
Classical music has had an influence on the sound of Tangerine Dream over the years. György Ligeti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Maurice Ravel, and Arcangelo Corelli are clearly visible as dominant influences in the early albums. A Baroque sensibility sometimes informs the more coordinated sequencer patterns, which has its most direct expression in the La Folia section that comes at the very end of the title track of Force Majeure. In live performances, the piano solos often directly quoted from Romantic classical works for piano, such as the Beethoven and Mozart snippets in much of the late 1970s – early 1980s stage shows. In the bootleg recording of the Mannheim Mozartsaal concert of 1976 (Tangerine Tree volume 13), the first part of the first piece also clearly quotes from Franz Liszt's Totentanz. The first phrase is played on a harpsichord synthesizer patch and is answered by the second half of the phrase in a flute voicing on a Mellotron. During the 1990s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition (on Turn of the Tides), Largo (from Xerxes) (on Tyranny of Beauty), Symphony in A Minor (by J. S. Bach), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (both on Ambient Monkeys).
Since the 1990s, Tangerine Dream have also recorded cover versions of Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" (first on 220 Volt Live) and The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Tomorrow Never Knows", and "Norwegian Wood".
An infrequently recurring non-musical influence on Tangerine Dream, and Edgar Froese in particular, have been 12th–19th-century poets. This was first evident on the 1981 album Exit, the track title "Pilots of the Purple Twilight" being a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall. Six years later, the album Tyger featured poems from William Blake set to music; and around the turn of the millennium, Edgar Froese started working on a musical trilogy based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, completed in 2006. Most recently, the 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty features more poems set to music, some again from Blake but also e.g. Walt Whitman.
Pink Floyd were also an influence on Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, the band in its very early psychedelic rock band phase playing improvisations based on Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive". Madcap's Flaming Duty is dedicated to the memory of the late Syd Barrett. The title refers to Barrett's solo release "The Madcap Laughs".
The band's influence can be felt in ambient artists such as Deepspace, The Future Sound of London, David Kristian, and Global Communication, as well as rock, pop, and dance artists such as Porcupine Tree, M83, DJ Shadow, Ulrich Schnauss, Cut Copy, and Kasabian. The band also clearly influenced 1990s and 2000s trance music, where lush soundscapes and synth pads are used along with repetitive synth sequences, much like in their 1975 releases Rubycon and Ricochet, as well as some of their music from the early 1980s. The group have also been sampled countless times, more recently by Recoil on the album SubHuman, by Sasha on Involver, and on several Houzan Suzuki albums. Michael Jackson also cited Tangerine Dream as one of his favourite bands, especially their 1977 soundtrack for Sorcerer.
Tangerine Dream are considered a pioneering act in electronica. Their work with the electronic music Ohr label produced albums that had a pivotal role in the development of the German musical scene known as kosmische ("cosmic"). Their "Virgin Years", so called because of their association with Virgin Records, produced albums that further explored synthesizers and sequencers, including the UK top 20 albums Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975). The group also had a successful career composing film soundtracks, creating over 60 scores, which include those for the films Sorcerer, Thief, The Soldier, Risky Business, Flashpoint, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Three O'Clock High, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile.
From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream continued to explore other styles of instrumental music as well as electronica. Their recorded output has been prolific, including over one hundred albums. Among other scoring projects, they helped create the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Their mid-1970s work has been profoundly influential in the development of electronic music styles such as new age (although the band themselves disliked the term) and electronic dance music.
Their most recent album of all-new music, Quantum Gate, was released on 29 September 2017. In December 2019, the band released Recurring Dreams, a compilation of new recordings of some of the band's classic compositions.
The group is currently working on a new album as a four-piece to be released in 2021 via Kscope.
Tangerine Dream began as a surreal rock band, with each of the members contributing different musical influences and styles. Edgar Froese's guitar style was inspired by Jimi Hendrix, while Christopher Franke contributed the more avant garde elements of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Terry Riley. Yes-like progressive rock influence was brought in by Steve Jolliffe on Cyclone. The sample-based sound collages of Johannes Schmoelling drew their inspiration from a number of sources; one instance is Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on parts of Logos Live, and the track "Love on a Real Train" from the Risky Business soundtrack.
Classical music has had an influence on the sound of Tangerine Dream over the years. György Ligeti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Maurice Ravel, and Arcangelo Corelli are clearly visible as dominant influences in the early albums. A Baroque sensibility sometimes informs the more coordinated sequencer patterns, which has its most direct expression in the La Folia section that comes at the very end of the title track of Force Majeure. In live performances, the piano solos often directly quoted from Romantic classical works for piano, such as the Beethoven and Mozart snippets in much of the late 1970s – early 1980s stage shows. In the bootleg recording of the Mannheim Mozartsaal concert of 1976 (Tangerine Tree volume 13), the first part of the first piece also clearly quotes from Franz Liszt's Totentanz. The first phrase is played on a harpsichord synthesizer patch and is answered by the second half of the phrase in a flute voicing on a Mellotron. During the 1990s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition (on Turn of the Tides), Largo (from Xerxes) (on Tyranny of Beauty), Symphony in A Minor (by J. S. Bach), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (both on Ambient Monkeys).
Since the 1990s, Tangerine Dream have also recorded cover versions of Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" (first on 220 Volt Live) and The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Tomorrow Never Knows", and "Norwegian Wood".
An infrequently recurring non-musical influence on Tangerine Dream, and Edgar Froese in particular, have been 12th–19th-century poets. This was first evident on the 1981 album Exit, the track title "Pilots of the Purple Twilight" being a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall. Six years later, the album Tyger featured poems from William Blake set to music; and around the turn of the millennium, Edgar Froese started working on a musical trilogy based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, completed in 2006. Most recently, the 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty features more poems set to music, some again from Blake but also e.g. Walt Whitman.
Pink Floyd were also an influence on Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, the band in its very early psychedelic rock band phase playing improvisations based on Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive". Madcap's Flaming Duty is dedicated to the memory of the late Syd Barrett. The title refers to Barrett's solo release "The Madcap Laughs".
The band's influence can be felt in ambient artists such as Deepspace, The Future Sound of London, David Kristian, and Global Communication, as well as rock, pop, and dance artists such as Porcupine Tree, M83, DJ Shadow, Ulrich Schnauss, Cut Copy, and Kasabian. The band also clearly influenced 1990s and 2000s trance music, where lush soundscapes and synth pads are used along with repetitive synth sequences, much like in their 1975 releases Rubycon and Ricochet, as well as some of their music from the early 1980s. The group have also been sampled countless times, more recently by Recoil on the album SubHuman, by Sasha on Involver, and on several Houzan Suzuki albums. Michael Jackson also cited Tangerine Dream as one of his favourite bands, especially their 1977 soundtrack for Sorcerer.
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Tangerine Dream Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Tangerine Dream:
A Dream of Death I DIED; they wrapped me in a shroud, With hollow mourning,…
A Lesson Perhaps The early morning castle stirred, The King of the forest st…
Alpha Centauri Der geist the spirit, der liebe of love Erfuellt den kosmos…
Astrophel And Stella What if we new beauties see, Will they not stir new…
Bent Cold Sidewalk When I talk to the trees O great trees who have…
Cry Little Sister A last fire will rise behind those eyes Black house will…
Dancing on a White Moon Dancing on a white moon with a twist like a…
Dear Nellie Goodrich Dear Nellie Goodrich I am writing to you To tell you of…
Dive Into Yesterday Dive into yesterday, dive into yesterday Dive into yesterda…
Episode 1: Wisdom and Tragedy Ano hi kara zutto boku wa zutto matte ita Iro aseta…
Flight From Ashiya Bursts of white cotton passing the window Everyone talking,…
Forever Young Let's dance in style Let's dance for a while Heaven can wa…
Hear The Voice HEAR the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future,…
Hymn To Intellectual Beauty The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen …
In The Room Of Percussion Mountainous pictures of coloured scenes appear upon my face …
Is Your Love Strong Enough Just one step at a time And closer to destiny…
Kaleidoscope Relax your eyes, For after all, We can but share these min…
Kiew Mission Континенты Азия, Африка, Европа Австралия, Америка, это земл…
Kiew Mission - 1995 - Remaster Kiew Mission - Exit (Froese says "words in parenthesis are …
Kiew Mission {from Exit} Континенты Азия, Африка, Европа Австралия, Америка, это земл…
Lady Greengrass She lifts her dress and floats to dreamland makes love…
Lake of Pontchartrain It was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans…
London I wander thro' each charter'd street Near where the charter'…
Love Of Mine Your skirt's so short that your thighs are showin you…
Love On A Real Train Lift off, we have a lift off, 32 minutes pass…
Loved by the Sun I have seen the mystics blather Once or twice but I…
Mad Song The wild winds weep And the night is a-cold; Come hither, …
Man My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a…
My Name is Bad Hair 僕ら最高速でいつだって 走れるわけじゃないんだって いつかは 止まってしまう日が来る それでも僕は良しとして 靴紐を固く…
Norwegian Wood I once had a girl, Or should I say She once had…
One Hour of Madness ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me…
Please Excuse My Face Silently, you wave good bye, Lots of love untied, If my sh…
Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender Rising runner missed by endless sender, never coming back, …
Shape My Sin I found my invisible Your beauty burned my blood Beneath t…
Shy People Down through the ages with same structures and thoughts …
Smile There is a smile of love, And there is a smile…
Solution Of All Problems I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a…
Something to Remember Me By Well you can run for you life, Make a Break for…
Space Oddity Ground control to major Tom Ground control to major Tom Ta…
The Blessed Damozel DEAR, back my wounded heart restore, And turn away thy powe…
The Murder Of Lewis Tollani In the night something is stirring Someone is moving withou…
The Sky Children A million white flowers in a field in the sky Seemed…
Tyger Tyger, Tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night Wha…
Zeit جیکو دیگه واسه جبران لحظه ها دیره مثه دود سیگار داره این…
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californioxochipilli
At the age of eight (1978), I saw a Laserium show at the Griffth Observatorium. They used Tangerine Dream music.
Man, what a futuristic feeling I experienced. I lived next to Vandenburg Air Force Base and watched missiles travel up into space. Everything was going space age (until the Challenger explosion in 1986).
Anyway, the flyer from show had photos of TD's albums 'Stratosphere" and "Phaedra". I recognized Stratosphere at a record store and convinced my parents to buy it. This album is totally "my childhood" music (this and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon")
I even played the first song on this album for my next birthday party with our playing musical chairs.
This song always had a beautifully haunting feeling.
Kurnass '86 Plane Guy
This song inspired me to create a place I've named "Redscape". It's like mars, but with very dim atmospheric lightning. Thunder constantly rumbles, as deep blue lightning flashes throughout. Large, monolithic vantablack pillars rise from the ground, stretching into the grey, infinite sky above.
Edit: I had a dream about this place. It was fucking creepy
Edit 2: I had the dream again, I walked past the monolith, only to see wreckages from fighter jets. They all looked to be pre-1990s aircraft, nothing really modern. I could make out F-101s, F-104s- F-105s, F-106s, Mirage F1s, Kfirs, Skyhawks, Phantoms, Tiger IIs/Freedom Fighters, Drakens, even some old Harriers. There also seemed to be some loose flight gear strewn about: survival vests, harnesses, helmets, ripped flight suits, etc. No bodies or anything, but holy shit did it freak me out.
Solo Harmonics (Rob J)
This track is one of my favorites off the Stratosfear album.
Paper RockScissors
I Love to Drive at night when theres a hint of fog, ease back in the seat & Listen to this perfect tune
Morus
exactly man, just did this yesterday and when this huge wall of sound around 2:00 appeared it was goosebumps moment for me
[foxi flakes]
I'm gonna listen to this in the Okefenokee at 3 am and no one can stop me
mike patrick
I have. .the gators loved it.
[foxi flakes]
@mike patrick that's a long way of saying "I recommend it"
marvin lovell
"Good stuff maynard" I must say when i first bought this on vinyl in 1976... It blew my mind. back then there wasn't much electric music out there! I went through2 LP's and 2 cassettes LOL and now i play my CD. still sounds GREAT ! as wonder as it did a lifetime ago!
martk fartkerson
What's a CD?
Acoustic Aesthetics
Each early TG composition is a monolith, an alien mound and a Dali painting. True art.