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One Part Tangerine, Two Parts Dream

Dmitri Ulinov | California, USA | 01/22/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Imagine a tangerine. Then imagine a dream. Put the two together and you get Tangerine Dream. This early '80s album exposes you to 4 roughly 20 minute tracks. Recorded in Warsaw during a period when Solidarity was challenging the communist regime, we get a sense that this krautrock group is exposing people behind the iron curtain to what is possible with citrus-named new age music. I've noticed that if you abbreviate Tangerine Dream, it is T.D., which is also the shortened version of touchdown. But Tangerine Dream has never played at the halftime of the Super Bowl or even the Orange Bowl. Why is that? Can the world be just if that is not true? And Schmoelling adds the perfect amount of schmaltze. My friend's cousin's brother-in-law told me that this is the favorite album of Bobby Knight, but I didn't believe him."

Magic in the Ice

Mr. Richard D. Coreno | Berea, Ohio USA | 10/31/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Recorded on December 10, 1983, at the Warsaw Ice Stadium, the four compositions clock in at a hefty 81:49 and are fantastic soundscapes that powerfully project emotions for the mind and soul.



Edgar Froese, Christopher Franks and Johannes Schmoelling intricately weave the electronics in the title cut (22:36), Tangent (19:59), Barbakane (18:04) and Horizon (21:10), with a section of Barbakane - Warsaw in the Sun - issued as a single in 1984.



There was magic that melted the ice due to the warmth from the textures from this trio of brilliant artists."

Poland

will moore | Northamptonshire England | 06/30/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"
Poland by Tangerine dream.



Great live album, just go get it."