Tangerine Dream – Raum (Album – Kscope)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Electro-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Tangerine Dream is for sure one of the greatest Electronic projects in history. Set up and driven by Edgar Froese, the band was already active a while before most of the people reading this review were born. Froese passed away in 2015, but his ‘mates’ Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick went on. This is the second full length without the founding member, although the others have access to his sound archives.
Content: “Raum” is a production which pays homage to the original ‘atmospheric’ sound of the band while adding a touch of modernism. Slow rhythms are carrying the space- and evasive-like sound treatments. The 7 tracks are moving from ‘classical’ Tangerine Pieces to some modernism.
+ + + : Tangerine Dream remains a visionary project which gave birth to the so-called ‘Berliner school’. And even after the loss of Edgar Froese, his acolytes hold on to the true spirit of Tangerine Dream. “Raum” features the ‘basic’ ingredients of the band’s sound while looking forward. The future still must be written and that’s precisely what the opening piece “Continuum” seems to reveal. “In 256 Zeichen” is a song for the die-hard fans; a sonic voyage of nearly 20 minutes which sounds like a sonic postcard. I like the dreamy style emerging at “You’re Always on Time”.
– – – : The initial effect of surprise is gone, but the spirit remains.
Conclusion: Even after more than 80 albums and becoming orphans of their instigator, the Tangerine Dream fans will not be disappointed.
Best songs: “You’re Always On Time”, “Continuum”.
Rate: 8.
Listen to “Raum”:
Artist: www.tangerinedreammusic.com / www.facebook.com/TANGERINEDREAM.OFFICIAL
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About Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic group founded in West Berlin in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band’s long-form sequencer and synthesizer work in the 1970s gave the so-called Berlin School its name, and the group also recorded a large number of film scores.
Froese led the project through every line-up change until his death on 20 January 2015. The group continued under Thorsten Quaeschning, who joined in 2005, with violinist and violist Hoshiko Yamane, a member since 2011, and Ulrich Schnauss, who played with the band between 2014 and 2020. Paul Frick joined in 2020.
“Quantum Gate”, released in 2017, was the first album completed after Froese’s death and drew on material he had left behind. “Raum” followed in 2022 on Kscope, in digital, CD and vinyl editions, and is the second full length by the post-Froese line-up. It again uses sketches from Froese’s sound archive.
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