Tangerine Dream - Madcap's Flaming Duty
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Free Music Review: Madcap's Flaming Duty
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent CD and so different for Tangerine Dream. The vocals of Chris Hausl are wonderful but I do wish the lyrics were printed with the liner notes. Overall: superb.
Free Music Review: Back on point
Hit: 4 Stars
Truthfully, the only album from Tangerine Dream that had vocals on it, that I didn't like was in the ambitious Inferno. I'm not a believer in some 'sacred' musical space that a voice can somehow ruin when mixed with Tangerine Dream's music, but when it's boring, it's boring. The only problem with inferno was not getting to see it performed live I'm sure, to see the lights and costumes dancing between the seemingly long, long, long repetitions of the same resonant chord being played throughout the album. Can we get a key change? This is not a review for Inferno though.
Madcap's Flaming Duty is very entertaining, and takes a leap away from what I feel has been safe ground for the band since Chris Franke's departure from Tangerine Dream in the late eighties.
Not to bag on Jerome's input, but I think Edgar Froese has found another collaborator who I could liken to the great names in the history of thier lineup: Klause Shulze, Johanes Schmoelling, Chris Franke, Peter Bauman etc.
The best songs in my opinion are the ones credited to Thorsten Quaeschning:
Shape My Sin - A gorgeous hook!
A Dream of Death - The beautiful instrumental second half features flutes and guitars. It is reminiscent of the sound and style of their great work in Jeanne d'Arc, rich and booming with low end, but smooth with the airy woodwinds, live drums, and the slight edge of guitar. This is really an interesting sound for Tangerine Dream.
One Hour of Madness - Its hypnotic and climatic jam out in the end will blow your mind with its sort of 'Rush' infused drum line (Iris Camaa, a firebrand) and layered vocal tracks (Chris Hausel). It is quite a prog moment to say the least complete with a great double guitar line between Edgar Froese and the other guitarist.
I cannot give the full amount of stars only because there are songs that are a bit 'filler-ish.' I thought at some point I would get into the tracks 'Mad Song,' 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,'or 'The problem,' only I don't. Still there are other standouts such as 'Astrophel and Stella,' which has a shimmer that really grows on you, the 'Divorce,' haunting, and 'The Blessed Damozel,' which is really beautiful.
Madcap's Flaming Duty is definitely a good record, and in in my opinion Tangerine Dream is spot on for this decade as their work gets better with every release. See Views From a Red Train.
Free Music Review: I fought it, but the album simply won me over
Hit: 4 Stars
I ordered Madcap's Flaming Promo, a promotional "first look" CD before Flaming Duty was released and I must say that I was not impressed. In fact, I was pretty disappointed. I was never very fond of TD music with lyrics, although '87s Tyger was decent and the fourth track of "Metaphor" titled "Earthling's Reality" (which is actually a slightly different version of "Burning Babe's Reality Song", the final track on Flaming Duty) is also quite good. Nevertheless, I avoided this latest release.
Time went on and I read the reviews for Flaming Duty, listened to sample tracks on TD's official website, and watched some video clips of some of Flaming Duty's songs on YouTube. My interest began to pique.
I finally broke down and got myself a copy and listened to it through and through. Despite my difficulties with lyrics in TD songs, I found this album to be one of the better releases from TD in the past few years.
The music is pure Tangerine Dream, no doubt about it, and Chris Hausl's vocals are quite soothing and fit in well with TD's style. I relished every note from Edgar's guitar work and the melodies are just plain spectacular. I am especially fond of track 2, "Shape My Sin"; an extremely passionate ode to desire and obsession (at least, that what I took away from it).
On Tyger, it sounded to me like the band was trying to FORCE the lyrics to fit the music, but I did not find that to be true here on Flaming Duty.
All in all, I am glad that I added this CD to my collection. I will definitely listen to Flaming Duty on a regular basis and try my best not to judge the band's music before I give it a complete and objective listening to.
Tangerine Dream are mixing it up and morphing their style. This is not the TD we know from the '70s and '80s, but they are still creating uniquely great music that will stand the test of time.
Dream on, true believers.....dream on.
Free Music Review: After 40 years Tangerine Dream morphs it's style again.
Hit: 4 Stars
Every decade it seems Tangerine Dream releases an album that alienates fans because singing never fit well with their style.In the 70's it was Cyclone which even founder Edgar Froese brushed off in an interview as "just an experiment".In the 80's there was poetry set to music in Tyger an oddly schizophrenic album with half sung poetry and half instrumental tracks.Tyger though is an interesting predercesser to this album which boldly forges ahead with all vocal songs like it or not.The good news is that most of the songs are a mesmerizing blend of vocals and music that bring to mind Pink Floyd.The bad news is that poetry doesn't always gel with the music and the vocalist is good but not quite David Gilmour.Edgar's son Jerome is absent but TD's new member Thorsten Quaeshning has revitalized the group since Jeanne D'Arc,the long instrumental middle of track 5 is brillant.There's even a surprisingly good Irish song(!) and a hypnotic Depeche Mode like final song.Like their Dante trilogy this isn't for all tastes but they deserve credit for continuing to evolve and try new approaches to music.How much you like it is a matter of taste but it's still a bold musthave for all TD fans.Free Music Review: "She oped the door, she drew me in...."
Hit: 4 Stars
Tangerine Dream (TD) has been with us for 40 years. Wow, that is a lot of time (man, I'm getting old). Like other fans, I have most of the CD's, DVD's, etc., etc. I recently got my 2 DVDs celebrating the 35th Phaedra Concert Anniversary and the 40th Tangerine Dream Concert Anniversary. Both DVDs are a great resume of TD history (70's, 80's, 90's and New Millennium). Then I got Madcap's Flaming Duty (MFD) CD. What can I say?. It was totally unexpected for me. The music is great but the voice, I don't know. But at the end this events are the ones that makes TD unique. Edgar Froese, as a great artist he is, is always reinventing himself and he is showing it with this new release. So, after listening to MFD few times it started to grow in me. Even my kids are already singing it. As for this moment, I think that the best track is the fifth one; "A Dream Of Death". So, just after the "Their faith the dead and living plight..." Linda Spa plays her flute and the magic starts to grow, then the guitars come along, and, wow, what a great track!!!....
Yes, definitely it is starting to grow in me...
Greetings from Mexico City.