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| Recorded in (year): | 1983/2005 | |
| Musicians: | Edgar Froese, Johannes Schmoelling | |
| Record Label: | TDI/Eastgate (Germany) | |
| Catalogue Number: | 49008 (TDI CD042) | |
| Link to film page: | N/A | |
| Comments: | Studio album.
Notes from the official press release: "Back in 1983 when Tangerine Dream toured Japan the first time, Edgar and Johannes came up with a lot of compositions which should have been performed during the tour and released on record later. The tour happened successfully, but due to controversies within the band, this music material never saw the light of day. Because of the fact that the music had nothing to do with other band members at that time, Edgar and Johannes decided 22 years later to make the material a full length CD. Old 24 track tapes had to be restored to make this happen. So what you hear on this record is -- the emotional situation the two composers were into many years back at the peak of one of Tangerine Dream's most creative periods." Johannes Schmoelling talked about 'Kyoto' in an interview with Conrad Gibbons in September 2005: "It was quite fun to work with Edgar. Kyoto is more a combination of 'OK, what is in your archive? What is in mine? Let's put it together.' So I haven't met Edgar since March or April. [...] I think it's quite a good record but I think, I'm not so friendly with the idea of always looking back, look on the past, what we did twenty, twenty five years ago. But I can imagine maybe Edgar and I will come together and say 'Well let's look at what we can do together in bringing in new material', maybe this is quite possible." Some of the material sounds quite similar to music Edgar Froese released recently on his solo album 'Dalinetopia' while other tracks have a strong Johannes Schmoelling influence. One composition is a reworked version of a track that was released as part of the soundtrack album The Park Is Mine. Most of the material has been strongly "tangentized", i.e. overlayed with modern sounds, so a fan who is expecting "untouched" music from 1983 (such as Hyperborea) might be disappointed. On the other hand this production shows TD's work from a rather different angle to other recent releases and is of interest to any Tangerine Dream fan. This release became available as an MP3 download at the Tangerine Dream Download Shop in June 2007. |
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