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Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (guitar, organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, bass instrument); Peter Baumann (flute, electric piano, organ); Chris Franke (keyboards, Moog synthesizer). Recording information: The Manor, Shipton-On-Cherwell, England ... Full Description(12/1973).
Widely considered one of Tangerine Dream's masterworks, fallout from the sonic phenomenon that is PHAEDRA can still be found lingering in the ambient movement of the early '90s and in much of contemporary electronica. The aural architecture that the band built from scratch remains unparalleled. Tangerine Dream was truly ahead of its time--the four epic-length tracks on PHAEDRA revealed a band that fully understood--and loved to manipulate--the complex array of knobs, dials, and switches that protruded from their synthesizer facades.
The title track is an almost spooky exercise in synth/sequencer tension and dynamics: while eerie atmospheres of Mellotron go head to head with spiraling Moogs, dense, humming sequencer webs percolate along the surface, motile and mobile. The album's closer, "Sequent C," leaves the listener breathless, as black electronic clouds form and dissipate and the surrounding space becomes corporeal sound. PHAEDRA remains one of the seminal recordings of the electronic movement, and stands up--even years later--as an original, stunning piece of music.Q (5/95, p.134) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[a] remarkable achievement, given the then fledgling nature of synthesizer technology and the leading role therefore thrust upon the unwieldy and limited Mellotron..." Hide Description Phaedra Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $2.19) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Dance, Electronica, Alternative, New Age | | Label | Virgin | | Orig Year | 1974 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4559  | | CD Universe Part number | 1033543 | | Catalog number | 86064 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 29, 1992 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Edgar Froese | | Engineer | Phil Becque | | Recording Time | 37 minutes | | Personnel | Edgar Froese - guitar, organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, bass instrument
Chris Franke - keyboards, Moog synthesizer
Peter Baumann - flute, electric piano, organ
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Phaedra Music Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews The best album ever recorded.
"Phaedra", made in 1974, is the music of the futurepast, of a place which perhaps could never exist yet somehow always has. It slides through the dark reaches of the universe, catapulting you further than you ever imagined possible. It is, quite simply, the most incredible recording ever made. It consists of four tracks of decreasing length, each doing completely different things to your brain. Go with it. It will haunt you. It will show you things you will not be able to put into words. This album is nearly 30 years old. That should put things in perspective for you. This is visionary stuff, completely serious, unspeakeably emotional and unrelentingly beautiful. There is not a single work spoken or sung on the album, just washes of organs and dense pulse layers, synth spirals, otherworldly whisperings and a binding, rolling, awesome structure to the proceedings that sweeps you away until you're completely and utterly lost in the music, so lost you don't know how you got there and you never want to go back; you never even want to know where it is you started out. Buy it. Treasure it. Listen to it in the dark, lying down, with your eyes closed. Oh, the things you'll see. The places you'll go.
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Awesome !!!
I'm probably one of the few T-Dream fans that actually like all of their incarnations from the early spacy-trippy Phaedra, Stratosphere and Force Majure type stuff but also like Lily on the Beach and Optical Race so I might not be the best one to take advice from on this album but I have to say that Phaedra is really awesome. If you have iTunes on your MAC play Phaedra and use the Visualizer which fills your screen with continuous constantly changing abstract visuals. It was made for this album. Just kick back and relax and away you'll go :-)
Submitted by a reviewer (New York, NY) 
Was This Phaedra Music Review Helpful? Yes No Top 10 of all time ambient albums
For the true ambient music fan, this album should be on your top 10 of all time list, alongside Ambient #4 On Land by Eno, and Gone to Earth (Instrumental) by David Sylvian.
Submitted by Bruce (Toronto, ON Canada)
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Well, this CD begins with ebbs and flows
from spacey currents, thrills and chills, and of course spooky influences.
Thank You.
Submitted by Stephen (Menifee Lake, CA, USA)
Was This Phaedra Music Review Helpful? Yes No  Let's count musical sheep...
An album for those who have lost the will to live, or have a lot of time on their hands, or want some music to accompany the important task of watching the freshly-emulsioned dining room wall dry, here it is!
Those wacky Tan-Dre boys certainly know how to pad out an initially pointless musical exercise...the tunes start off as boring, repetative musical noodles that go nowhere, and then they get worse
(much worse).
After listening to Tan-Dre, death doesn't seem so bad. My chum listened to the vinyl LP version of the album at the wrong speed of 45rpm, and didn't notice until it had finished!
Infact it sounded a lot better...
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