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Tangerine Dream: Ricochet

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Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1975.12.15
Time:
 38:15
Category: Electronic, Avant-Garde
Producer(s): Tangerine Dream
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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] Ricochet, Part One (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 17:02
[2] Ricochet, Part Two (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 21:13

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Edgar Froese - Keyboards, Guitar, Producer
Peter Baumann - Keyboards, Producer
Christopher Franke - Keyboards, Drums, Producer

Chris Blake - Engineer
Mick Glossop - Engineer, Mixing

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Taped during the band's very successful European Tour in August-October 1975, UK & France.



Electronic trio Tangerine Dream embrace their equipment and take their audience on an actual journey through this especially good, two-part showcase recorded live in France and Britain. Featuring the early and memorable lineup of Chris Franke, Edgar Froese, and Peter Baumann, Ricochet continuously evolves to the next plateau of pulsing experimentation without getting lost or over-indulgent like other bands of the genre. This album finds the three at a time when they knew exactly what they were doing; rocking without the drums, and looking over their shoulder to make sure the audience was still enjoying themselves. For the number of albums and soundtracks this band has put out (over 50!), most fans hold onto this one because it is so energetic and timeless. It takes a snapshot of the band when they were young, influential, and at the height of the genre.

Glenn Swan - All Music Guide



Ricochet is the first live album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. The album was released in 1975. It consists of two long compositions mixed from taped recordings of the UK and France portions of their August–October 1975 European Tour. The sound of the album is similar to the group's other "Virgin Years" releases, relying heavily on synthesizers and sequencers to produce a dense ambient soundscape, but is much more energetic than anything they had released previously. Ricochet utilizes more percussion and electronic guitar than its predecessors, Phaedra and Rubycon, bordering on electronic rock. The principal innovation on the album is its use of complex multi-layered rhythms, foreshadowing not only the band's own direction in the 80s, but also trance music and similar genres of electronic dance music.

Much of the raw material for Ricochet, in particular part 2, was recorded at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, London, during Tangerine Dream's live performance there on 23 October 1975. The original, unedited version of this performance can be heard in set 3 of The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1. No other source concerts have so far been identified. The piano solo at the beginning of "Ricochet, Part Two" was recorded at the Manor Studio.

After the Top 20 placings for Phaedra and Rubycon, Ricochet fared less well in sales terms, spending just four weeks on the UK album chart (all editions of the now defunct British Hit Albums erroneously state only two), reaching number 40. In recent years, however, Ricochet has become one of the most popular Tangerine Dream albums.

In the original release of Ricochet, the sound of two hands clapping can be heard at the beginning of the second track. This sound has been edited out in some of the re-released versions of the album, notably Virgin's 1995 "Definitive Edition" CD release, presumably being regarded as noise.

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