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Tangerine Dream's first disc for Virgin and an absolute classic! Brooding synthesiser sounds over complex pulsing sequencer patterns, where the intonation constantly shifted and where tunes and melodies and the other trappings of popular music are entirely absent from an album unlike anything else of its day.
The title track opens the disc and is the major work on it: almost 17 minutes worth of absolute perfection! Here you will find soaring Mellotron lines, hypnotic pulsating sequencer patterns and bass guitar lines, together with massive washes of synthesiser sound, all contributing to a captivating whole. There are some amazing moments where the whole tonal centre of the work wanders most disconcertingly: apparently, some of these shifts are accidental and are the result of some frantic retuning of oscillators while the recording was still in progress! The result, whether intentional or not, is arranged to perfection and still sends shivers down my spine even now, 25 years on! The second half of the 'Phaedra' track is a contemplative mix of singing Mellotron, deep Moog sounds and other shimmering synthesiser voices, which at times sounds almost orchestral in its textures. Incredible!
'Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares' is a beautiful ballad for Mellotron, played over long washes of phased sound and pulsed coloured noise. Its other-worldliness harks back to earlier Tangerine Dream albums, but the delicate Mellotron tones mixed with heavy Moog voices lend it a much more polished air and confirm that Tangerine Dream were now a true musical force to be reckoned with.
'Movements of a Visionary' uses bursts of coloured noise, heavily reverberated and echoed to create an eerie introduction to a sparkling shower of VCS3 sounds, over a simple sequencer pulse. An organ line insinuates itself slowly as more sequencer pulses enter, drifting in and out of phase with each other, while the whole orchestra of sounds explores various ideas, in a way that is reminiscent of works on the earlier album "Atem". Finally, though, this track reduces to a simpler repeating pulse beneath a delicate synthesiser line, which brings it to a gentle conclusion in a way that is suggestive of a new style in TD's music. A short study (Sequent c' -- pronounce that as "Sequent middle C") using a single synth voice then brings this whole epic affair to a close.
In all fairness, I should also warn you that you only get 37 minutes of music for your money on this album, but that shouldn't stop you from buying it. In fact, nothing should stop you from buying it!
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Phaedra was my first TD album and it remains one of my very favourites. This is an incredibly visionary work that can vastly expand the listener's horizons and transfer the listener to another world! It is hard for me to describe the awesome feelings that I experience when I listen to this masterpiece, but I am sure that most TD fans know what I mean. Phaedra is an infinite album, beautifully done from begining to end. In short, a timeless classic!
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This is the first and only Tangerine Dream disc I own. I have determined after experiencing Phaedra, that there will be several others to buy. I purchased this one without ever hearing the group but, after researching and reading reviews of TD. The music is what I expected it to be, far out on another planet and back home again. Listening to the record definitely takes you somewhere. From what I have read and heard, groups like Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno had much to do with the creation of "ambient" music. In other words its music that allows you to apply your own thoughts and images to the sounds. This style of music has become most essential in my collection, it definitely has its place. Phaedra sounds like a album that was recorded a few years ago, not 25 years ago (c1974). The fact that this music was going on two years before I was born is especially fascinating to me. For electronic/ambient music lovers it is essential as I am sure the majority of the TD collection is.
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This album was one of the first to really explore the Ambient genre and the one that marks the beginning of the New Age style of music. This is already a classic and all experts agree with that fact. You MUST have this album in your collection!
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This was the first Tangerine Dream I listened. It was in 1973 and even after all these years it still leads me to unreal landscapes. Something similar to enter in a picture of Dali or Bosch. A masterpiece of space music. If I could, I'd rate a million stars.
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