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The Best Tangerine Dream CD since Mars Polaris

Jim Reed | New York | 02/01/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"It's not a cd of remixes or a concert cd or a soundtrack to some obscure film(has anyone actually seen Mota Atma?)and it doesn't have vocals which turn off most diehard TD fans(though I still think Purgatorio is underrated.)but what it does have is some of coolest Tangerine Dream music in years.Aurally diverse and great blending of keyboards with Linda Spa's saxophone,track 2 La Joie is an exhilerating standout.Featuring their best compositions of the 21st century so far .After 36 years of ups and downs it's a real joy to hear Tangerine Dream in top form again.A musthave for TD fans(no,nobody paid me to say that it's really true!)"

Wow, Tangerine Dream is comming back!.

Eduardo Nava | Mexico City | 03/22/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yes. It is true. This is one of the best Tangerine Dream CD's since the Mars Polaris (1999). Here is the track list:



1. La Vision 12:19

2. La Joie 5:16

3. La Force du Courage 8:37

4. La Solitude dans l'Espoir 7:32

5. La Marche 8:36

6. La Sagesse du Destin 7:58

7. Le Combat du Sang 10:17

8. Le Combat des Épées 14:02

9. La Libération 4:39



All tracks are good. My favorites are the last 2 ones. They are combined into a single one. So, for me, those 2 last tracks together are the best part of the CD (almost 20 minutes).



Linda Spa is back togheter with Iris Camaa, Throsten Quaeschning, and, of course, Edgar and Jerome.



I will see TD in Mexico City. Hope they will play some of this tracks!.



Excelent TD-CD."

Dreamscape to Fantasy Novel about Joan of Arc

Sergey Lenkov | Mother Russia | 07/24/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I like history, I like Joan of Arc, I like movie by Luc Besson about Joan, and I like Tangerine Dream.

So I bought this album.

I prefer Tangerine Dream of Froese-Franke-Haslinger line-up (Le Parc, Underwater Sunlight). And I think that the best album by new Tangerine Dream (Froese, Father and Son) is "Goblin`s Club" (1996).

Here they are working with collaborators: co-author Thorsten Quaeschning (keyboards, drums), Linda Spa (sax, flute - she played also on "Goblin`s Club" - it was also a reason to buy this album for me), Iris Camaa (she sang on "Dante project" albums) - percussion. So as usual we hear familiar rhythmic "bubbling sequences" but live drums, percussion, saxophone, flute give to the record touches of beauty and of live performance - and so as a result we have the music with multi-level polyphonic 3D feeling of the world created by Tangerine Dream. I agree with the prevoius reviewers - the tracks "Le Combat du Sang", "Le Combat des Epees" and solemn final "La Liberation" are the most close to our favorite TD dynamic sound. And because these tracks are quite long soundclips here wouldn`t give you right impression of them.



I really missed guitar by Edgar Froese and something authentic medieval - well, Enigma-like Gregorian chants samples:) Whitout it this album sounds as epic of some fantasy Joan of Arc in the space. Well, I expected less meditative and more dramatic tracks, and I missed the hit - a melody to remember, something like "Song of the Whale" on "Underwater Sunlight" or "Towards the Evening Star", "Lamb With Radar Eyes" from "Goblin`s Club"...



So it is not the best album by Froese`s TD - I think that "Goblin`s Club" still their best (I`m not talking of their Dante project - it is very special music), but "Jeanne" is among their most strongest efforts in the last 10 years, and one of the most interesting albums of electronic music of 2005-2006.



If you are a fan of Joan of Arc - try also album "Destination" by German band ELOY with the impressive prog-rock Rick Wakemanesque final epic song about this lady.

Also I could recommend you solo albums by former TD members:

Christopher Franke "The Celestine Prophesy" (1996) - big budget New Age style record performed with Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, choruses and ethnic instruments (reminds "The Conquest of Paradise" by Vangelis), his very impressive live CD "The London Concert" (1992; close to classic TD sound) and more ethnic and more dynamic (in the same time ambiental and agressive) music with many soundsamples - Paul Haslinger "World Without Rules". It is really interesting!"