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Tangerine Dream's Phaedra

Tangerine Dream's Phaedra

Holt, Fabian
Byrne-Smith, Dan

Hardcover

Series: 33 1/3 Europe

ElectronicGeneral MusicMusic Reference

PREORDER - Expected ship date August 31, 2028

ISBN10: 1501384139
ISBN13: 9781501384134
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Aug 31 2028
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.75
Language: English
Phaedra was the album that saw Tangerine Dream move from relative obscurity to mainstream success. Championed by broadcaster John Peel, they reached the attention of Richard Branson and signed a deal for five albums with the Virgin label. Phaedra, released in 1974, was the first of these. It still sounds startlingly innovative, fusing what were then the latest synthesizer technologies with instruments including a Mellotron, organ, electric piano, guitar and flute. The use of sequencers to create rhythmic patterns was a new sonic experience for most listeners, while the processing of all the instruments through reverb and delay helped to create a template for ambience and atmosphere that still continues to influence music today. This book explores Phaedra in the context of the wave of experimental creativity in German music in the 1970s and the part the album played in the emergence of Kosmiche Musik, cosmic music, in 1970s West Germany.

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