Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Definitive Edition) -Remastered- (c) 1995 Virgin
Artist....: Tangerine Dream
Album.....: Phaedra-Definitive Edition
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 04
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Virgin
Catalogue#: TAND 5 / 7243 8 40062 2 8
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/750821
Tracklist:
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01 Phaedra 16:48
02 Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares 10:46
03 Movements Of A Visionary 07:58
04 Sequent 'c' 02:17
Total:50,9 MB / 37:49 min
Release Notes:
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High definition digital remastering at Chop 'Em Out, London 1994.
Recorded in December 1973 at the Manor/Shipton-On-Cherwell.
The Definitive Edition Series is considered to be the very best sound
quality of any of the Tangerine Dream releases because of Super Bit
Mapping technology.
Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in
the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation
of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the
synthesizer/sequencer technology just beginning to gain a foothold in
nonacademic circles. The result is best heard on the 15-minute title
track, unparalleled before or since for its depth of sound and vision.
Given focus by the arpeggiated trance that drifts in and out of the
mix, the track progresses through several passages including a few
surprisingly melodic keyboard lines and an assortment of eerie Moog and
Mellotron effects, gaseous explosions, and windy sirens. Despite the
impending chaos, the track sounds more like a carefully composed
classical work than an unrestrained piece of noise. While the title
track takes the cake, there are three other excellent tracks on
Phaedra. "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" is a solo
Edgar Froese song that uses some surprisingly emotive and affecting
synthesizer washes, and "Movements of a Visionary" is a more
experimental piece, using treated voices and whispers to drive its
hypnotic arpeggios. Perhaps even more powerful as a musical landmark
now than when it was first recorded, Phaedra has proven the test of
time.