Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (Definitive Edition) -Remastered- (c) 1995 Virgin
Artist....: Tangerine Dream
Album.....: Stratosfear (Definitive Edition)
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 04
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Virgin
Catalogue#: TAND 8 / 7243 8 40065 2 5
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/1110710
Tracklist:
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01 Stratosfear 10:37
02 The Big Sleep In Search Of Hades 04:29
03 3 Am At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee 08:49
04 Invisible Limits 11:25
Total:47,5 MB / 35:20 min
Release Notes:
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High definition digital remastering at Chop 'Em Out, London. Recorded
August 1976 at Audio Studios Berlin.
The Definitive Edition Series is considered to be the very best sound
qualityof any of the Tangerine Dream releases because of Super Bit Mapping
technology.
Stratosfear, the last Tangerine Dream album by the great
Baumann/Franke/Froese threesome, shows the group's desire to advance
past their stellar recent material and stake out a new musical
direction while others were still attempting to come to grips with
Phaedra and Rubycon. The album accomplishes its mission with the
addition of guitar (six- and 12-string), grand piano, harpsichord, and
mouth organ to the usual battery of moogs, Mellotrons, and e-pianos.
The organic instruments take more of a textural role, embellishing the
effects instead of working their own melodic conventions. Stratosfear
is also the beginning of a more evocative approach for Tangerine Dream.
Check the faraway harmonica sounds and assortment of synth-bubbles on
"3 AM at the Border of the Marsh From Okefenokee" or the somber chords
and choral presence of "The Big Sleep in Search of Hades." The title
track opener is the highlight though, beginning with a statuesque
synthesizer progression before unveiling an increasingly hypnotic line
of trance.