Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
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Artist: Tangerine DreamEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1992-06-29
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Stratosfear
- The Big Sleep in Search of Hades
- 3 AM at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee
- Invisible Limits
Free Music Notes for Stratosfear
Free Music Review: invisible limits of mysterious beauty
Hit: 5 Stars
Invisible Limits epitomizes the beauty one can find within the music of Tangerine Dream if he is willing to engage his inner space and...give it time. Especially now in the 21st Century this music may at first appear both futuristic and already dated, but after a while you will notice the purity of this electronic expression and the peacefulness of your destination. Invisible Limits, the final chapter of this album , to me personally frankly might be the most amazing 11 minutes of cosmic rock music I know (perhaps next to Klaus Schulze's Floating somewhere between 10th and 21st minute). There is some intense melodic beauty in other compositions of Tangerine Dream like in Ride On The Ray, for instance, but the magic of Invisible Limits approaches me in its mysterious way. This is the song you can safely play on repeat 1 for a couple of days and get a lot out of such experience. Substance-wise there is more going on here within these 11 mega minutes than there often is on many 80 minutes of cd space.
I can understand that someone might not care that much about beginning this album title piece Stratosfear itself but to say that TD's greatness ended prior to the release of this album, is to have skipped over Invisible Limits. And you can easily skip it over if you don't listen to it carefully at least a few times, so you can really get there.
To me personally the musical development of Tangerine Dream since their ambient experimental beginnings of Alpha Centauri in 1971 lasted until the 1986 release of Underwater Sunlight because their music had come its entire course only by then, from the colorless sound risen out of noise to the full melodic expression of easily approachable undeniable beauty for all. The concept of artistic destiny is often quite different for ambient electronic musicians beginning their careers at the stillness of sound, from the much more mainstream situation of artists like David Sylvian or Mark Hollis and many others who progress into silence. And when the destiny of Tangerine Dream was fulfilled completely in 1986, sure, it would have been great if Edgar Froese was able to turn his spaceship back at that time and position it somewhere between Rubycon and Stratosfear, or Rubycon and Force Majeure, and circle around that space for a few years, showering us with more gold. The ship went forward with Hollywood as its main destination and the crews kept on changing.
My personal favorite albums of Tangerine Dream really depend on what mood I want to be in. Sometimes the need for 11 minutes of personal magic could make me reach for the Stratosphere, at other times Pheadra or Rubycon could have delivered the most proper ambient background to the state I am at. Ricochet's multi-layered rhythms provide spectacular tempo whenever I need to dive deeper into some things. Sometime Cyclone would be my choice if I happened to be under the progressive rock influence or in a mood for. And many times I would go back to Force Majeure which I might be connected to in a very special personal way of planning my major life changes to, back in 1979.
Coming back to Stratosfear to me this album gets progressively better. It starts with the energetic Stratosfear track, very familiar to many from its inclusions during TD's live shows. It is a good track but I like the acoustic overtones of The Big Sleep In The Search Of Hades just as much. 3AM At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee is the perfect title to this eerie piece of music with plenty of space inside of it. Its peacefulness becomes the perfect ground for what comes next. It is possible that Invisible Limits is just my personal obsession, but from the very moment it starts I am simply blown away. The melody line just starts pulsing gently along and it is very unassuming and simple, but the atmospheric background which appears in about 0:43 with a simple flute melody over it is perfect and the way all of the above interact in such a peaceful way until in 2:50 the gentlest drum beat appearing only for a few seconds on the entire song brings on a.... loud splash. From 3:10 to 5:10 it is a typical Tangerine Dream at work but than about 5:30 this gorgeous western theme appears for only a minute or so. Right before the 7:00 we got a complete change of mood, brought by a very interesting synthesizer sound and only the echo of our melody is left and we are approached by pure space atmospherics. And out of that moment of silence in 9:00 the motif of Ludvig von Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata appears, as a gorgeous piano and flute interplay, and it ends this album in a very romantic way. Such absolute perfection completely improvised proves the accord and harmony of this genius crew of the Tangerine Dream spaceship.
Stratosfear Poster
Consisting of four parts, Stratosphere reworked the Tangerine Dream trademark sound--a heady mix of electric guitar, drum, and assorted other electronic instruments--into a form more readily available to those new to the genre than their previous works. A rich blend of racing sequences, dramatic chord structures, and a stranger-than-strange bluesy treatment of a track called "3 am at the Border of the Marsh from...." A surreal experience indeed. This was the last Tangerine Dream release to feature long time associate Peter Baumann, who left the band a year later. --Paul ClarkDance & DJ Music CDs
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