The 5th and final part of the Five Atomic Seasons

In addition to the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk are Tangerine Dream the most significant and most classic representatives of electronic music. During power plant but always working with vocals and even later, the first advances towards Electro Pop dared to Tangerine Dream rather long musical journeys in the form of soundscapes and paintings had dedicated. Initially TD were still very experimental. It emerged albums like 'Electronic Meditation' and 'Alpha Centauri'. At the latest on the latter album Edgar Froese coined the term 'cosmic music'. 'We want to try to do with the so-called cosmic music events audibly that ran on the edge of the imagination of mankind'. Was Tangerine Dreams music at these times to albums like 'breath' or 'Time' While very exciting, but also hard to digest because provided with so few dissonances. Later, the most classic phase came, also called 'The Virgin Years'. During this time, probably the greatest classics of the band as 'Phaedra', 'Ricochet' or 'Rubycon' appeared. From the time worked with TD extended, slowly developing pieces that built on different rhythmic sequences and constantly repeated. In the eighties, TD also experimented with singing, with such albums found less attention. In the nineties TD then returned back to its roots. An album like 'Oasis' is a living proof that electronic music can be very versatile and exciting, without the remotest Kitsch share.
On live albums like 'Tangerine Dream Tangerine Dream Plays' evidence can be found from the spherical, perfect sound of the band.

The number of releases of the band is simply overwhelming. Including the quality of the music need not necessarily suffer, however. On the contrary, time and again one finds an interested that no matter what era you accesses images of TD, one always encounters musical maturity.

The new album 'The Endless Season' is the so-called 'Part Five Of The Five Atomic Seasons', a cycle, the Tangerine Dream have accepted a job. It is about the atomic bomb attacks at the end of World War II. For example, the fourth part called accordingly 'Winter In Hiroshima'. While listening to the new album, however, falls on not particularly that it is such a topic. Rather, it creates the work the handset to take you into a dream landscape. The spacey sounds create space and atmosphere would be suitable perfectly as a soundtrack for science fiction movies. Notice can be that when you 'The Endless Season' used as a background painting for futuristic PC games like Starcraft II among others.

Bandleader and mastermind Edgar Froese is responsible for everything that you hear on the shekel, only at track 5, he is supported by another guitarist.
Froese creates with his keyboards, sequencers and now and then his guitar breathtaking soundscapes. He himself has also programmed the drumming. About Sequencer patterns sound always spacey keyboard chords and or solierende, sometimes electronically distorted, sometimes merely amplified electric guitar. The whole CD it also creates consistent, not drifting into banality or boring Gesäusel. Nevertheless, it may be a bit thick at the beginning here and there, so that the shekel at the beginning of one point or another a little more momentum as from the fourth track 'Escape' would have been very good to face.

The sound recording is superb succeeded in what music is in these days in this sort also an absolute must. A good system with sufficient bass and high volume improves the already strong soundscape again considerably. That leaves utter nothing but a buy recommendation, however, by pointing out that the albums of the 'Virgin Years' the true classics will remain. And a record like 'Tangerine Tangerine Dream Plays' continuously brings more dynamics into play and perhaps the slightly better entry into the world of newer TD-discs.

Score: 11/15
Out tip (s): Devotion, Escape
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