Congrats @peterfrederics on the win! As a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan who- at least once a month- re-watches Game 7 of the 2016 World Series (and often Games 5, 6, and 7), I understand all too well the cumulative emotional burden that gets inherited from a sports team's losing history spanning back long before we're even born.
@Germanprof for the intro to Henrik Meierkord. This is the second recording I've picked up from the cellist.
"Tangents 1973 - 1983", a 5 CD compilation album by top rank German, Progressive Electronic band, Tangerine Dream.
I will be seeing them live in Melbourne on Monday night.
Let us know what you think of the show. Recently they've been doing a fixed show (like Phaedra 50th anniversary) followed by an improv session. Lots of fans and lots saying they really shouldn't be touring as TD which I feel is a bit daft, I'm only half sold on the recent material but it is way better than the last 10-15 years of Edgar's involvement IMHO.
The box set is a strange one, Froese messed around with the tracks on the first three discs which upsets folk. I have a rip of the 94 issue (which I don't really play I think yours is the 2004 version, I'm not sure if the reworking is just on the latter version or also on the 94 selection. Regardless I should give it a spin this weekend.
I stay far away from anything that Froese had re-mastered and, frankly, changed. It's an attitude of extensively (almost unrecognizably) re-writing the past that makes it so egregiously disrespectful to those who grew up loving this work. If he really wanted to shift things around on more modern equipment, then better to give some kind of extension to the original work's name - kinda like Oldfield's "Return to Ommadawn" for instance - but to pass it off with the original title is just crazy bad in my opinion.
The write-up for the show says "The band will perform a career-spanning set, from their early works like Phaedra to the driving arpeggios of their film scores, which include tracks from Risky Business, Sorcerer and GTAV amongst many others."
Hopefully, it will be a good survey of their works but I will indeed report back.
I'd be interested in hearing how they sound these days. My mood about them has elevated some in the past 10 years because the new group is a lot less Hollyweird and airbrushed and a lot closer to the 70s era than I ever expected. I really thought that era was long gone with them, but this "Q" fellow and the more limited band has been kind of encouraging - at least in recordings released lately. I saw them in 2008 and even tho I wasn't a fan then, having the chance to see them and Klaus Schulze on the same night was a dream concert of my adolescence that was too good to pass up. Apparently, these days, they're closer to the "Berlin school" again - closer, yes, but not fully there.
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Playing today Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
I will be seeing them live in Melbourne on Monday night.
The box set is a strange one, Froese messed around with the tracks on the first three discs which upsets folk. I have a rip of the 94 issue (which I don't really play I think yours is the 2004 version, I'm not sure if the reworking is just on the latter version or also on the 94 selection. Regardless I should give it a spin this weekend.
The write-up for the show says "The band will perform a career-spanning set, from their early works like Phaedra to the driving arpeggios of their film scores, which include tracks from Risky Business, Sorcerer and GTAV amongst many others."
Hopefully, it will be a good survey of their works but I will indeed report back.