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Tangerine Dream: Cruise to Destiny - Topographic Dreamtime

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Label: Eastgate Music & Art
Released: 2013.04.25
Time:
 73:26
Category: Electronic, Avant-Garde
Producer(s): Edgar Froese
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tangerinedream-music.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Devotion (E.Froese) - 7:26
[2] Betrayal [Sorcerer Theme] (C.Franke/E.Froese/P.Baumann) - 3:50
[3] Three Bikes In The Sky (E.Froese/P.Haslinger) - 6:01
[4] A Wise Fisherman's Nocturnal Song (E.Froese) - 4:07
[5] The End Of Bondage (T.Quaeschning) - 5:31
[6] Too Hot For My Chinchilla (E.Froese/P.Haslinger) - 3:51
[7] Dream Phantom Of The Common Man (E.Froese) - 8:31
[8] Sungate (E.Froese/P.Haslinger/R.Wadephul) - 4:52
[9] Hoël Dhat The Alchemist (E.Froese) - 7:10
[10] Cat Scan (E.Froese/P.Haslinger) - 5:47
[11] Paradise Cove (E.Froese/P.Haslinger) - 3:51
[12] Dreaming In A Kyoto Train (E.Froese) - 7:30
[13] Moon River (T.Quaeschning/H.Mancini/J.Mercer) - 4:54

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Edgar Froese - Keyboards, Guitar Solo on [1,3,8,11], Compilation, Producer
Thorsten Quaeschning - Keyboards, Compilation
Bernhard Beibl - Electric Guitar, Compilation
Linda Spa - Saxophone, Flute, Keyboards, Compilation
Hoshiko Yamane - Electric & Acoustic Violin, Compilation
Iris Camaa - Electronic Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Compilation

Bernhard Beibl - Guitar Solo on [6,13]

Bianca F. Acquaye - Executive-Producer
Christian Gstettner - Engineer
Harald Pairits - Mastering

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Recorded and compiled during rehearsal at Eastgate Studios, Vienna/January 2013.

On March 26th, 2013 at 8 pm Tangerine Dream should have started with the first set of the great “Cruise To The Edge” concert together with Yes, Saga, Carl Palmer, Steve Hackett and many more. TD planned some extraordinary surprises including the invitation of a real female superstar to sing a kind of a ‘Titanic’ parody of the famous Mancini song “Moon River” (from the movie “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”). It could have been a very surreal and funny performance at moonlight in the middle of the Caribbean Sea… But destiny obviously had other plans….with regard to Edgar’s fall on icy ground with breaks and Linda’s unpredictable disease… which finally both led to the cancellation of the two planned concerts as explained in the Forum before. Fortunately mid of January the band did a rehearsal recording of almost 60% of the concert with all members playing their original parts. So you will hear a big portion of the music planned to be performed on the cruise – like a sonic ghostly gig on a vessel that happens even if no one of the band was present… PS: Enjoy many tracks of the setlist as new re-recorded versions!

The Eastgate Music Shop about the CD release



Tangerine Dream had planned to perform live on the Cruise To Edge 2013 tour on a vessel in the Carribean Sea, but unfortunately had to cancel that journey only a few weeks before the event due to Edgar Froese having had an accident and Linda Spa being ill. But back in January the band had a rehearsal session in their studio in Vienna where a number of tracks to be performed during that tour were played. These rehearsals (which have studio quality) were then released in April on the Cruise To Destiny album.
 

Besides two previously unreleased compositions (one of them an instrumental cover version of Mancini's famous Moon River) the album contains re-recorded versions of tracks originating from the following albums:

Sorcerer (1977, one track)
Optical Race (1988, two tracks)
Lily On The Beach (1989, two tracks)
Melrose (1990, one track)
Summer In Nagasaki (2007, one track)
The Endless Season (2010, one track)
The Gate Of Saturn (2011, one track)
The Angel Of The West Window (2011, two tracks)

The re-recorded versions differ in varying degrees from the original versions. Notably, no less than five of the 13 tracks origin from albums of the Melrose Years (1988-1990) - a short period in TD history which was somewhat underrepresented on live performances during the recent years.
 
The CD release comes with an 8-page booklet featuring numerous photos from (most probably) the before-mentioned studio session. The liner notes by Edgar Froese are a bit more extensive than the notes provided on the web site (see above) but essentially give the same information. Credits are present on the clear tray insert, the back side features the track list.

© 2001-2014 by Michael Berling



For a starter let me be clear; I don't want to start a crusade against Tangerine Dream and even less their fans, of whom I am you remember? Except that sometimes, enough is like... enough. You know many artists who put in boxes the rehearsals of a concert which has never taken place? Worse; a rehearsal of half of the concert because a member of the group got injured. Roughly speaking, it's the rundown of “Cruise to Destiny”. In spring 2013, Tangerine Dream was schedule to perform live on a liner along with Yes, Steve Hackett, Nektar, Saga and several other big names of the progressive music within the framework of a series of concert on the Caribbean entitled sea Cruise To The Edge. Except that Edgar Froese (multiple fractures during a nasty fall) and Linda Spa (disease) were forced to abandon Thorsten Quaeschning, Iris Camaa, Bernhard Beibl and Hoshiko Yamane have to postpone the project of participating to this musical cruise in the future. Disappointed the fans? Wait! Stopping at nothing to satisfy the slightest desires of these fans, the treasurers of Eastgate had the good idea to make of this rehearsal an official album.

I did a small calculation. Do you know how many albums compilations and/or in concert that the band has produced since the foundation of Eastgate? I counted more or less 35 compilations and 25 Live albums since 2005, that is more than 6 albums a year, plus the DVD. It's not bad, no? And each time the press info tells us that there are or will be surprises, novelties and/or a Froesiation or another Tangerination of the sound quality. An enhanced sound quality as they say. And nevertheless! I may moved, turned all the offered track versions that I get lost there. Every track seems or is alike. And I may force to find something different that I get lost there even more. I listen to a track and I compare it with the same on another album and there I look for the difference up until I go mad. And we let ourselves being caught. One says to us; bah...it ain't that bad! It's exactly what happens with “Cruise to Destiny”.

The presented set list proposes a more rock Dream with a clear incursion in the Melrose years. And it's very interesting because tracks such as "Betrayal", "Three Bikes in the Sky", "Too Hot for my Chinchilla", "Paradise Cove", among which it's the first interpretation in concert which won't end to be one, and "Cat Scan" enjoy a nice and good music-lifting. Like a friend of mine told, these are good recycled older tracks. "Sungate" remains "Sungate" which we know for its decade. One of the surprises of “Cruise to Destiny” is this list of tracks that the Dream never played in concert yet. Set apart "Paradise Cove", we find "Devotion", "The End of Bondage" and "Dreaming in a Kyoto Train". "Three Bikes in the Sky" figures on several bootlegs, and I do prefer by far this version. I thus appreciated to rediscover the boiling "The End of Bondage" and "Dreaming in a Kyoto Train" that I had lost of ear with the Sonic Poem Series. But are they different or not? Only the diehard fans could tell. Speaking about this series one shall underline a first interpretation also of the powerful and intriguing "Dream Phantom of the Common Man". And if we like this series, "A Wise Fisherman's Nocturnal Song" is another surprise and beautiful novelty as much dark and melancholic as "Hoël Dhat the Alchemist". And, as TD likes to do since Under Cover - Chapter One, the group makes an interpretation of an old pop success with Andy William's "Moon River". The whole thing delivered without words. It's beautiful, it's good, it's tender. We dance on it body to body with our love. My girl simply loves it, but that still sounds like music for elevator.

Hey yes! I put my ears in it and I got caught. “Cruise to Destiny” fulfills the promises of its press kit. There are very nice surprises with interpretations of tracks that we have forgotten in time, except for "Betrayal" of course. Tracks played just with enough difference not to deny the originals, while adding to it this little something which clicks in the ears. Edgar's last novelty, "A Wise Fisherman's Nocturnal Song" is more than interesting. We feel in it the clear hold and influence of Thorsten Quaeschning on Tangerine Dream and it's promising. In brief, in spite of its appearances of nth compilation, “Cruise to Destiny” has all the necessary fibers to captivate those who like TD, as well as those who know the group only from the tips of their ears. And damn that TD does some good music. It's just that the band is not where we would want whether it is. It's not that bad because there are many others more audacious out there who go in its footprints. But Tangerine Dream will always remain as noble as its name. That, one has to admit it.

Sylvain Lupari (May 30th, 2013)
 

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