brian daniels Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Just found out that on 20th January Edgar Froese passed away. Now most of you will not have heard of him but he was the founder of Tangerine Dream a German electronic music group. They have produced over 100 albums and a few soundtracks most noticeably to me for the film Legend. This is without doubt one of his best, just close your eyes and drift away from it all, Drunken Mozart in the Desert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBSQ19IeW6I Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Phaedra, one of the defining sounds of my uni days. 'Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares' , they don't name tracks like that anymore...... Mellotron driven hypnosis par excellence; http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8J2doVjui4 Sad news, RIP Edgar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2015 I first heard of Edgar Froese when I was in Tandies looking for a new amp and he was played as the demo, I bought the amp on the strength of it and nipped up the road HMV and bought the album as well. RIP Edgar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 The T.D sound track album "Sorcerer" absolutely gripped me............ We can be grateful for the marvelous catalogue of work that Edgar has left us. http://youtu.be/XOkfBbVZEGo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMal Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Sad news. Got quite a collection of Tangerine Dream and Edgar Froese as a solo artist on LP (note NOT vinyl please - yuk!) Mal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 That brought back memories Debs, 'La Salaire de la Peur'. Great soundtrack, great film too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 The BBC has just announced it today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30965708 Picture with this article does him no favors! I would like to remember him when he was a bit younger. I saw them a couple of times at Oxford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Edgar, RIP. Another underrated hero of modern music... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 First heard of TD back in 78. I was a bit of a geek and spent a lot of time at the planetarium. Laserium were doing an extended run in the star chamber and I got to talking to them on a regular basis. Before and after the shows they'd play Phaedra, Richochet, Encore, and Rubycon. That got me hooked. I've got 147 official albums/mini albums/singles along with a complete set of the trees and leaves series. The latter being quasi-sanctioned fan releases of just about every concert they ever did. Not to mention the complete library of his solo material. That totals up to around 600 hours of music. We've been lucky to see them 7 times in concert. The last was this past June in Cologne. We also met him and had a brief chat after the 2007 London concert outside of the late lamented Astoria. A complete gentleman. Deb: They re-released Sorcerer last spring as a double disc with all of the material that was left over from the movie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iak Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Another part of my youth goes. Shame - may he rest in peace. "Cloudburst Flight" will always be one of fave pieces of music. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
two tone green Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Another fan here. Always thought Phardra was a good replacement sound track for the film The Elizabethan. The motion of the A4 against the beat of the music was fantastic. Even the braking is is there leading up to a signal check and then it clears and the music picks up as the A4 accelerates. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Big fan of Tangerine Dream in my teens Rbicon and the like still have a lot vinyl of TD. Not evertbody's taste but Edgar was certainly a groundbreaking musician RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2015 You don't often find me contributing to music obits, but I'll do so here. The Dream were one of the very few bands I actually went to see, although TBH I found the records more fulfilling, which is why I was never much of a concert-goer! I have several of the early albums. Still think Desert Dream the best track they made. ISTR Sorcerer was a re-make of the Wages of Fear, a powerful film I'd seen at skool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Indeed it was Ian, both films were based on Georges Arnoud's novel ''La Salaire de la Peur'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purley Oaks Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Definitely part of the soundtrack... from Alpha Centauri and Zeit to early Virgin days for Phaedra and Rubicon. Some great nights-in listening to these and drifting elsewhere... Thanks, Edgar! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted January 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2015 I'm sorry to say that this is the first time I have heard of Edgar Froese but as a fan of Jean Michel Jarre's music, I liked the clips here so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Nice video of the man playing guitar on Talking to Madox just to prove it's not all keyboards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbknVzG0wK8&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharrc20 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Thats a real shame. I was introduced to Tangerine Dream amongst other artists by my uncle and he had a copy of Force Majeure on LP that he played for me once. And I loved it especially Cloudburst Flight and I made him put the LP on again. From there he brought some albums on CD and we listened to them a lot. Such a good and varied output of music. R.I.P. Edgar Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 A suitable tribute to a great musician RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I first heard Atem in 1973(?). The lad next-door had lAlpha Centauri. I then bought Phaedra (1974) and the follow up Rubicon a year later. I saw them at the Manchester Free Trade Hall 4th November 1974 - the Phaedra Tour. A concert unlike anything else. Very futuristic, powerful, hypnotic and spacey for its time. Great quality sound too IIRC. In all the dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of gigs I've been to in my life, it remains a great memory of one of the most enjoyable gigs I've ever been to. Personally, I think that 1971-75 & 75-77 personnel line up was the best.... Edgar Froese - keyboards, guitars Christopher Franke - keyboards, drums Peter Baumann - keyboards After the following mid/late 70's albums, I think they drifted into a more M.O.R. sound and more film score sounding stuff. A lot of the later stuff over the last 30 years or so, I found to be a bit boring. YMMV. R.I.P. Ron . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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