Another debut on Live and Loud! for a band requested by 1 of my listeners - in this case, 1 who has been good enough to even supply me with a recording to remaster.
As many Tangerine Dream fans will know, for a long time there was a central hub for the trading and swapping of live bootleg recordings called the Tangerine Tree (which you can read about here). I know little about it personally, but I have had 1 particular listener bending my ear a bit to feature Tangerine Dream on Live and Loud! for a while, so I challenged him to send me something suitable and eventually he sent me this show, a free event celebrating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, held outside the Reichstag. This gig was especially notable as the last gig featuring Christoph Franke, who had been with Edgar Froese in the band since 1971. So a bit of a landmark recording in some respects.
The recording, I am informed, was originally remastered for the Tangerine Tree release by Wouter Bessels. It was basically clean, although a bit flat and I did find a small drop in volume at one point, so after fixing that I spent a lot of time EQ'ing - its a long show, lasting over 2 hours so it took a while! But I think its been worth it.
I'm reliably informed as a result, this now has more of a balance between the backing tracks and the live playing. Either way, it sounds pretty spectacular I think. Even if you have this recording from the Tangerine Tree originally, I hope you'll give this a listen and enjoy it.
The show is now available to download exclusively for free here as 1 MP3 file.
Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.
Setlist
Caspian Sea
Dolphin Smile
Civilized Illusions
Betrayal
Diamond Diary
Love On A Real Train
Canyon Voices
Zen Garden (Variation)
Samba Motel/Scuba Scuba
Coloured Rain
Quadriga
Dolphin Dance
Sunnyvale
Smile
Ride On The Ray
Going West
Yellowstone Park
Tyger
Tiergarten
21st Century Common Man (Part 1)
A Time For Heroes
And my special thanks to Graham for the source recording (and the occasional nagging).
The late 80 were not an especially great time for T-Dream, all those new digital synths sounding kinda harsh and glassy compared to the deep ambient bliss of their seventies output. But this actually sounds pretty terrific.
ReplyDeleteCheers. I've been promised a Baumann era recording to do at some point later this year, so hopefully that will be a good contrast.
DeleteI have the entire Tangerine Tree series if you are interested.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer but I already have someone supplying me with TD material. Thanks anyway, appreciated. Hope you enjoy what I've done with it.
DeleteThis is just superb. I cannot believe just how good a recording this is.
ReplyDeleteCheers, glad you enjoyed it.
DeleteGreat stuff. Thank you. Keep them coming!
ReplyDeleteThanks, appreciated.
DeleteThanks for the TD
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome - hope you enjoyed. Hoping to do another earlier show by early next year. Cheers!
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