Tangerine Dream - Improvisation (1976)

some sounds are new and beautiful, some are ugly

Improvising on a theme is a classic tradition among musicians of many types.

I love seeing the gear looking so...new. Beginning with the Beatles experimental sounds using mellotrons sound sampling was made popular in modern times!

It's the Mellotrons really. Because TD had theirs filled with custom tapes, they effectively had sound samplers (for acoustic rather than purely synthetic sounds) years before anyone else, like the knitting machine noise (as well as the male choirs and oddly on this piece, the grand piano). See my book "Analog Synthesizers" available through Amazon.

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Peter Baumann with a Radio Clyde t shirt on. That's where I first heard them one Saturday night in 1975. A show called ' New To You ' on Radio Clyde ( Glasgow ) played Rubycon and Phaedra. Have liked them since then...

Everything of this sounds incredibly actual.

Get the Champagne out

Party Time

It's not 100% improvised - variations on this (untitled) piece cropped up throughout their 1976 gigs and never made it onto official releases. But yes, there was a lot of improvisation involed; no two renditions were exactly the same.

They're supreme, they got the most fabolous synths i've ever seen!!!