Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight CD

Underwater Sunlight album for sale One of Tangerine Dream's earliest and most classic recordings, STRATOSFEAR's Mellotron-soaked melodies have not only found their way into samplers and DJ repertoires worldwide--the band have also even revisited the album's plangent themes in their successive soundtrack compositions, such as RISKY BUSINESS. In 1976, the band (Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, and Peter Baumann) was still creating music as imagistic, fantastic and phantasmagorical as its accompanying track titles ("The Big Sleep in Search of Hades," "3 AM At the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee"). The vast washes of Moog, Mellotron, rhythm computers, and Fender Rhodes piano that grace "3 AM" still sound like they originated from the seventh circle of Hell. Their sheer alien-ness seems to bespeak music made not of this earth. The title track's hovering, extraterrestrial sequencer hypno-pulse continues to resonate in today's electronica. Recorded at Audio Studios, Berlin, Germany in August 1976. Composer: Christopher Franke. Personnel: Edgar Froese (guitar, 12-string guitar, harmonica, piano, grand piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, bass guitar); Peter Baumann (piano, electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Christopher Franke (harpsichord, organ, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, percussion). Audio Mixers: Christopher Franke; Edgar Froese; Peter Baumann; Tangerine Dream. Recording information: Audio Studios, Berlin, Germany (08/1976). Unknown Contributor Roles: Edgar Froese; Peter Baumann. Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (6 & 12-string guitars, harmonica, piano, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, bass); Chris Franke (Mellotron, harpsichord, organ, ...

Underwater Sunlight CD music The live RICOCHET (sporting one of Monique Froese's more enigmatic and abstract covers) remains a high water mark amongst Tangerine Dream's vast in-concert recordings. During their notorious mid-'70s live performances, they were for a time considered to be the loudest band ever--it's not hard to imagine the effect on the inner ear canals of this album's bubbling sequencers played at jet-plane volume. This is still classic electronic music. RICOCHET is divided into two parts, which consist of the three band members pitching their towering banks of synths, sequencers, and drum machines (not to mention some galactically charged guitar) high into the winter night. Edgar Froese conducts himself mightily, erecting great black voids of synthesized matter through which swirling sequencer motifs and beat patterns eke out vast, interstellar heavenly bodies. Put this on the hi-fi, and let the Dream bounce you off the walls. Recorded live in France and England in Fall 1975. Composers: Christopher Franke; Baumann; Edgar Froese. Personnel: Edgar Froese (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer). Audio Mixer: Mick Glossop. Recording information: Britain (1975); France (1975). Unknown Contributor Roles: Christopher Franke; Edgar Froese; Peter Baumann. Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann.