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When talking about progressive music and besides Lin Di's solo works, I'm also fond / very fond of:

Frank Zappa (USA) - Hot Rats   (1969)
Edgar Froese (D) - Ypsilon in Malaysian Pale   (1975)
Steve Hackett (UK) - Voyage of the Acolyte   (1975)
Michael Hoenig (D) - Departure From The Northern Wasteland   (1978)
Jean-Luc Ponty (F) - Upon the Wings of Music    (1975)

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Mike Oldfield was in Kevin Ayers' band, I have the "Shooting at the Moon" album. That band also featured future solo artists, Lol Coxhill and David Bedford.

Edited by Easy Money - August 15 2025 at 06:19

When talking about progressive music, it seems to me that The Mothers have the best solo works, as having the largest number of high/very high rated.

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

^Indeed, Göttsching has a number of fantastic works under his own name, not to mention the incredible collaborative album he did with Michael Hoenig titled Early Water.

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David_D wrote:

verslibre wrote:

^Indeed, Göttsching has a number of fantastic works under his own name, not to mention the incredible collaborative album he did with Michael Hoenig titled Early Water

Yes, but about Klaus Schulze who has even made a larger number of high/very high rated albums, it might be a question how seriously he has to be taken as a member of Ash Ra Tempel.

It's subjective, I guess. He's on Tangerine Dream's debut, but to me that was more about timing (there were earlier configurations). Klaus seemed more at home with ART, but was clearly the nomadic type versus a tribesman, so to speak.

Klaus has a number of albums with low ratings, too, mainly in the 80s-90s (he needed to self-edit more often), with the exception of In Blue (featuring Manuel Göttsching on "Return of the Tempel") and Transfer Station Blue (more of a Michael Shrieve album, with Klaus as a guest). In the mid-00s, things start to pick up again.

I can't think of anything Manuel did that I'd call bad.

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Tangerine Dream with solo works by:- Edgar Froese; Peter Baumann; Iris Camaa; Chris Franke; Paul Frick; Jerome Froese; Paul Haslinger; Michael Hoenig; Steve Jolliffe; Klaus Krueger; Thorsten Quaeschning; Johannes Schmoelling; Ulrich Schnauss; Conrad Schnitzler; Steve Schroyder; Klaus Schulze; Ralph Wadephul; & Hoshiko Yamane.