Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971)
Tracks:
01. Sunrise In The Third System 4:29
02. Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola 13:32
03. Alpha Centauri 22:14
Total running time: 40:15
Details
Recording date January 1971
Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne)
Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder, Udo Dennebourg, Roland Paulyck
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder
Notes
In October 1970 Edgar Froese had been asked by a friend to co-produce the German version of the Simon and Garfunkel song "The Boxer" for a German artist. He still did some of these "bread and butter" jobs at that period of time and was looking for a good drummer after Klaus Schulze had left the group. During that recording session, Edgar Froese met Chris Franke, a drummer who had just turned 17 and whose drumming was unusually varied. Edgar hired him for various studio jobs before he asked him if he wanted to play with TD.
The line-up Edgar Froese/Chris Franke/Conrad Schnitzler gave many concerts and TV appearances, since their music was considered very exotic at that time. TD gave a TV concert for twelve pinball machines, guitar, cello and drums - it was a live TV broadcast and caused a wave of public protest. In spite of this, TD was well booked at home and abroad, though there are no album releases with this line-up. After Conrad Schnitzler had left the group he was replaced by Steve Schroyder. For their second album, Alpha Centauri, TD experimented for over three weeks making their original organ sound, that was pure luxury in those days. The spacey image of the music began during these years.
Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 73.6 MB
