Tangerine Dream: Untangling the Tangram

Tangerine Dream's 182nd album. The four-track Sessions V double album is labelled as an "EP" by Tangerine Dream, along with all of the other seven albums in The Sessions series, but with a running time of just over two hours, it must be a record breaker for the longest ever EP in recorded history. It's great value for money that's for sure, if it's the same price as a standard EP. 

Tangerine Dream's 181st album and one of the first concerts recorded after Edgar's passing. It's  a chance to hear many of Tangerine Dream's classic tunes performed in a new way in a magnificent open air amphitheatre in Basel, Switzerland by the new TD trio of Thorsten, Ulrich & Hoshiko. In the full 140 minute video below you feel like you're right there where I can almost smell that Swiss alpine air - although that may just be my Haze Alpine Air freshener. 

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Just so happy to see them free forming their way, and actually finding what TD was all about ... lovely stuff and we need more!

Tangerine Dream's 179th album. The third of eight in The Sessions series, recorded live in Hamburg and Berlin. Tangerine Dream describe The Sessions albums as EP's, but with a duration of well over 60 minutes in many cases, they're longer than most albums. 

Froese Majeure! Feel the force of a TD 4X3 with HD highlights from four of Tangerine Dream's stratospheric live performances filmed during their classic heyday as a trio. 

Coventry Cathedral, England, 1975 :- Edgar Froese, Chris Franke & Peter Baumann

Bologna, Italy, 1980 :- Edgar Froese, Chris Franke & Johannes Schmoelling

Munich, Germany, 1981 :- Edgar Froese, Chris Franke & Johannes Schmoelling

Warsaw, Poland, 1983 :- Edgar Froese, Chris Franke & Johannes Schmoelling

Tangerine Dream's 177th album. This is a moment to seize. The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again... You can take a quantum of solace from knowing that Quantum Gate was the album that Edgar Froese was working on when he had a sudden unexpected change of cosmic address in January 2015. This album represents the quantum gateway between the classic Tangerine Dream we've come to know and love and a new beginning with the current TD trio of Thorsten, Ulrich & Hoshiko., so let's celebrate the continuation of Edgar's legacy and Tear Down the Grey Skies of winter together.  

Tangerine Dream's 175th album. Zao shang hao! Here's something new to wake up to for the Chinese New Year. The Sessions I is the first in an eight-part series of improvisational TD performances captured live from around the world, starting with Budapest, Hungary and followed by Hong Kong, China. Zaijian! 

Thankfully, the dialogue is in English this time in this brief Tangerine Dream challenge, where the new TD trio of Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane are Against the Clock with ten minutes of studio time allowed to create a piece of music together. 

And this is what they came up with...