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  • Tangerine Dream official website

    Tangerine Dream official website

    Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in West-Berlin, Tangerine Dream was formative in the genre of electronic music. After Edgar Froese’s death in 2015, ...

Music

  • Rubycon Anniversary CD Box

    2025

    Rubycon Anniversary CD Box

    Celebrating 50 years of Rubycon, one of Tangerine Dream’s most influential albums.

  • Live at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, November 20th 1974

    2024

    Live at the Kelvin Hall Glasgow, November 20th 197

    This famous concert presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Peter Baumann.

  • Raum

    2022

    Raum

    On their new album 'Raum', Tangerine Dream develop the concept of its precursor EP ('Probe 6-8') further.

  • Quantum Gate

    2017

    Quantum Gate

    Tangerine Dream's studio album QUANTUM GATE was due for release on September 29, 2017, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the ...

  • Zero Gravity

    2014

    Zero Gravity

    For his album Electronica, Jean Michel Jarre collaborated with Tangerine Dream on the track Zero Gravity. Jarre has dedicated the limited vinyl ...

  • Ricochet

    1975

    Ricochet

    The first live album and seventh album overall consists of two side-long compositions mixed from recordings of the UK and France concerts of their ...

  • Phaedra

    1974

    Phaedra

    This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which later became known as their trademark and of the ...

Biography

  • Tangerine Dream - The Band's history

    Biography

    Founded by Edgar Froese in 1967, Tangerine Dream were formative in the genre of electronic music, with long instrumental tracks based on synthesizer ...

  • Tangerine Dream 2014 – 2019

    Tangerine Dream 2014 – 2019

    Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, died in Vienna on the 20th of January, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism.

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  • There were some really strange comments on the representation of part 2, “PURGATORIO”, in the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2004. Can you give any background information about this concert that might make these comments easier to understand for some fans?

    Answered by Edgar Froese

    There were some really strange comments on the representation of part 2, “PURGATORIO”, in the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2004. Can you give any background information about this concert that might make these comments easier to understand for some fans?

    It was definitely a very strange premiere of this 2nd part. An invitation for a concert in the RFH was put on our table by a promoter in London in November 2003. We only got the information that is was a special cycle of performances with several ...

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Can you give background information about representation of “PURGATORIO” to understand the comments?

Answered by Edgar Froese

It was definitely a very strange premiere of this 2nd part. An invitation for a concert in the RFH was put on our table by a promoter in London in November 2003. We only got the information that is was a special cycle of performances with several representations of different artists specialized in modern music. No further details. We requested if they were interested in the premiere of the 2nd part of the Dante Cycle. The answer was an enthusiastic „Yes“. As we were getting a little bit under time pressure, we charged a good friend, who works with silent movies, with the details of the realization. Just to make a very long story short: We had planned to show a very old silent movie with the inferno contents of Dante as a backdrop in a silent Hollywood movie. In addition, theatrical effects should be used. When we came to the rehearsal in the RFH we couldn’t believe our eyes. A tiny screen fixed over the stage like a kleenex should be used to show the largest part of the visual program! In a big hurry the promoters arranged for a larger screen to be brought (still too small!) and for more light effects. We got another shock when we realized that we were on the Eather Festival, a festival for electronic, ambient, house, drum&bass and DJ performances. All that wouldn’t have been a problem if we had played the ordinary TD music, but it definitely was a problem with Purgatorio and opera songs. Last disaster: We wanted to fill the room with dry ice and fog. When we began, the theatre turned on the air condition at full power. Every small fog flag disappeared immediately in the pipes of the outlet. Even if we had been sitting naked on the stage, we couldn’t have felt more misplaced. A story that nobody knew before and that will certainly not happen again.

Bianca Froese-Acquaye
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