Tangerine Dream: Reims 1974, Part 1

Tangerine Tree Vol. 30
Reims 1974
Part 1

13th December 1974
Reims Cathédrale Notre-Dame

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• Reims 1976
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[WagnerDisaster]

Transitional is the word. Because, if you listen only their official stuff, you get impression of (sometimes radical) change of style. But if you listen Tangerine Tree material (or bootlegs, whichever you can find), you can see that this is not so. There is a change of style, but more subtle.

[WagnerDisaster]

I looked in their albums from seventies and they did use organs, but it doesn't specify which. It could be Hammond. Maybe someone knows.

[WagnerDisaster]

Well, it is part of my intention to show at least some early TD work, as in Berlin Deutschlandhalle 1973 or Sheffield 74, because it was the root of classical TD sound.

[madmomentsgo]

very nice track

[letresbeauchauve]

rock and rool

[tie32101]

@shaft9000

Baumann used a Farfisa and I think Franke and Froese used Vox's

[mbdmbdmbd]

Perfect picture choice.

[shaft9000]

@marshallman83

hammonds are not likely in TD but it's possible. Baumann usually stuck w/ Farfisa organ...other gear they used at this time was lots of Mellotron (actually an elaborate tape-machine "sampler keyboard", and their only synth at this point was an EMS synthi VCS3.

Great sound quality here, btw.

[marshallman83]

@WagnerDisaster Thanks for checking man. I do know TD have used about every keyboard under the sun.

[777Kwyjibo]

Yes, absolutely. In fact I think towards the end of the second part of this performance Franke starts laying down one his trademark synthesizer sequences which would dominate TD's sound during their Virgin Blue Years period. Seems their live improvisations between studio albums were testing grounds for new directions.

And to answer the other person's question further, I believe Baumann used a Farfisa organ.

[777Kwyjibo]

I think this one is primarily Froese on his mellotron. I really like this transitional period in the group, out from the deep murk of Atem to hints of what was to come with Phaedra.