Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (Classic Newage - 1976)

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Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear

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Artist...............: Tangerine Dream

Album................: Stratosfear

Genre................: New Age

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1976

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Tracklisting

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01. (00:10:36) Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear

02. (00:04:31) Tangerine Dream - The Big Sleep in Search of Hades

03. (00:08:49) Tangerine Dream - At the Border of the Marsh From Okefenokee

04. (00:11:26) Tangerine Dream - Invisible Limits

Playing Time.........: 00:35:21

Total Size...........: 80.93 MB

Stratosfear, the last Tangerine Dream album by the great Baumann/Franke/Froese threesome, shows the group's desire to advance past their stellar recent material and stake out a new musical direction while others were still attempting to come to grips with Phaedra and Rubycon. The album accomplishes its mission with the addition of guitar (six- and 12-string), grand piano, harpsichord and mouth organ to the usual battery of moogs, mellotrons and e-pianos. The organic instruments take more of a textural role, embellishing the effects instead of working their own melodic conventions. Stratosfear is also the beginning of a more evocative approach for Tangerine Dream. Check the faraway harmonica sounds and assortment of synth-bubbles on "3 AM at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee" or the somber chords and choral presence of "The Big Sleep in Search of Hades." The title-track opener is the highlight though, beginning with a statuesque synthesizer progression before unveiling an increasingly hypnotic line of trance. — John Bush